Diary of a Turtle 25 Reviews

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The adopt a turtle made it a lot more personable and easier for quick engagement and connection for tamariki! Checking in on location, talking about maps and tracking, and kids developing empathy quickly to then broaden to other marine line. Definite biggest impact in our class!! So many great discussions using ‘Lil Mango’ as an example.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Tamariki are a lot more aware when they see rubbish now. They notice it and want to stop it because otherwise “it will hurt Lil Mango!!” Even more awareness and quick action to pick up litter when they see it near drains or gutters and rivers and streams.

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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? “Don’t litter because it hurts animals!”

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Pokemon cards

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

“My students absolutely loved doing this. Having a story and a turtle to ‘adopt’ really drew them in instantly and it was very simple to drive empathy and expand awareness about the impact of plastic on wildlife. Can weave into so much of your usual mathematics and literacy planning, reading and writing about plastic and the harms, tracking and calculating distance and talking about maps. Such a gold mine, and the students LOVED asking to check in on where ‘Lil Mango’ was. Tamariki also became a lot more aware of how much litter was in our school grounds, and they started picking it up during their lunch time because “this litter will hurt animals.” Really recommend this for all teachers. The resources are fantastic, and having gloves and bags ready to bring the action into this inquiry was so helpful and lovely. You can dive into this on a surface level and get a lot of good mahi out of it, but also so much potential to go really deep and extend in here if your planning has the time. Thanks so much!!”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves were great and helped to keep their hands less dirty.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The children talk about looking after the earth and the fish in sea. The children loved re-using or upcycling the rubbish. The kit related to lots of other stories we read about reducing

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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? "When I went to the beach yesterday, I looked for rubbish. I couldn't find any and that is good for the turtles"

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A croc shoe

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

“The updates were relevent and the tamariki could relate to the experiences. The gloves made the students excited about picking up rubbish. It have them a fun challenge, rather than a boring job. They asked to do more rubbish pick ups!”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves to make clean up happen.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Brought awareness

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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 wonder......

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Toys

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

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

“Great engagement”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Trackijg the turtle; impact it has on the environ

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? three

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

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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? We need to help the turtles by picking up rubbish

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Nothing too unusual

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

“School Kit: Diary of a Turtle is a warm and engaging kit that gently introduces young tamariki to the idea of caring for our environment. Told from the perspective of a turtle, the kit is simple, relatable, and thoughtfully written, making it accessible for junior learners. This kit provides meaningful opportunities for talk, reflection, and connection to sustainability.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Turtle tracker

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Improved knowledge in general

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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? Turtles are in danger!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Random bottle caps

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

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

“Lots of resources to use!”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Because we are located inland we used some of the resources to clean up the gully near our school. of the clean up resources provided to

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We had 6 classes do the clean up so used 6 bags.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They are developing an understanding through the resources provided and other resources what impact different types of rubbish can have on our environment and creatures in those environments.

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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? If we don't put our rubbish in the bin it can hurt some of our sea creatures.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Not sure as I was away the day the children did the gully clean up.

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

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

“It was a well put together kit but because our school is located inland not al parts were Used.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The kids loved tracking the turtles online and using the maps.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Our kids are already pretty aware of taking care of the land around us. We are very lucky to have a DOC volunteer on staff so we were able to tie it in well to lots of other areas of learning in our school and local area.

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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? We've stalked that turtle a really long way!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Dog registration tags

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

“It was a great, interactive kit that the kids enjoyed engaging with.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? N

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Made us aware of rubbish we lesvr

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? N

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Remains

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

“I found I had to adapt this a lot. Had to putt it off till term 4 to be able to go to beach.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago