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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the ability to trach the turtle as it encouraged the children to learn more to see where the turtle was

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? yes, they go and collect up rubbish at playtime now too

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? hand on and relatable

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? half a barbie

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bottle Top

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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How well did this kit help your class build literacy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“The kit was great, it provided the class with lot so of learning that I could extend upon, such as learning about the area the turtle was in, it linked to our term 1 project of recycling and could also be linked to our local area where we have little blue penguins and how the impact the rubbish has on them as well.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The beach cleanup day opened all out eyes to just how much plastic can be found on our beaches (even after a decent wind had blown the larger items away!)

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We did the day as a team and lots of part bags but as a class about 2 full bags of mostly very small items

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They pick up rubbish during lunch time, and are really concerned about sea turtle wellfare

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? Oh no we have to help her! (when the text indicated out turtle was near a plastic bag), every day without fail the class were asking to check on our turtle and the ones belonging to the classes in our team - they were obsessed!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? tooth brush

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottle, Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Container, Plastic Wrapper

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“This extremely engaging kit was perfect for my Year 1 class. They loved becoming Rubbish Rangers. We became fully immersed in all things 'Sea Turtle' as it was so easy to fully integrate this topic throughout different curriculum areas. My class loved discovering new and interesting sea turtle facts and I learnt heaps as well!”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves weren’t so good for my neuro diverse kids, too itchy.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Still collecting daily, it hasn’t stopped. We collect bag full at the end of each day around the school.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Just more aware of what they are doing

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? They didn’t ask for this to be in their homes

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? None really, just the usual.

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bottle, Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Straw, Plastic Cup

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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How well did this kit help your class build literacy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“Class had a blast with this even full engagement from my kiddos who didn’t initially seem interested”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The physical resources bags gloves etc

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 2

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It was good

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? I didn’t know there was so much rubbish

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Nappies

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bottle

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“Fun easy to use resource”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Tracking a real turtle made it come alive.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? One on the day (lots of tiny things), and another one over the term.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Reinforced our sense of responsibility - we do Kura Ngahere every week anyway, so this built on that.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? That will go out to sea!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A pair of undies.

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottle, Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Container, Plastic Wrapper

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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How well did this kit help your class build literacy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“Our tamariki LOVED this kit, were fully engaged for the whole term, taking their learning well beyond the activities planned. They were highly motivated to write and loved getting the texts and messages from the Sea Cleaners. Some tamariki chose to continue being sea cleaners completely independently, taking rubbish bags around the school to find rubbish. And if we ever saw rubbish when we were outside, we HAD to pick it up, because someone would remind us that we were sea cleaners!”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves and the text message writing prompts were very motivating

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 2.5 full bags

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The teachers want to make rubbish collection a regular activity.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? Mrs xxx, someone has left a plastic lunch bag to blow away. It could get in a drain and a turtle could eat it.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A bucket handle and 1/2 a tennis ball

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottle, Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Container, Plastic Wrapper, Plastic Cup

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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How well did this kit help your class build literacy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“The children were very engaged during this learning. They loved following updates of 'their' turtle and it inspired lots of creative writing when we used the text message prompts. The children learnt lots of new vocabulary, and parents commented on how much learning the children were sharing at home.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? sorry I don't know

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? They were very fortunate to not fill 2 rubbish bags.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We are strongly into whenua ora, sustainability and reduce, reuse and recycle. The kit components reminded the children about the importance of not littering and the sensitivity and delicateness of our land.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? It was used with another class so I don't know - sorry

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? an ear ring?

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Container

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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How well did this kit help your class build literacy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“Hi, I emailed early after getting into the Diary of a Turtle 25 kit arrived saying it wasn't exactly what we were hoping for, and wouldn't be using the kit. We were hoping it was going to track an actual turtle in the ocean as part of our unit on how animal adapt to their environments. I'm sorry this email has not reached the appropriate person. The kit was however used in our senior school with their beach clean up day.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? All of them

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Only 3

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Kaitiakitanga- learning how to take care of our Moana and whenua

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? I didn't know that!!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Glass

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bottle, Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Container, Plastic Wrapper, Plastic Cup

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

Helped a little

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How well did this kit help your class build literacy skills?

Helped a little

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“What a great resource. My students enjoyed this unit so much. I also have a friend that has a turtle so it was amazing for them to see one in real life. We enjoyed the stories and all the activities. Thank u all so much”

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Posted 4 weeks ago