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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Unsure

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 4

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? I believe this has helped to realise the importance of picking up rubbish and the impact rubbish has on our sea creatures

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? We look after our environment

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? N/a

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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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

“An excellent resource for classroom teachers and students.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The students loved the tracking sea turtle part of the kit, it was cool to see where the turtle was swimming

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? A few

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Helped students to understand the importance of keeping the environment clean

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 love seeing the turtles journey!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? N/a

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

“Such a cool resource! Our students loved them as we were doing animal studies for the term and it helped with that”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves and rubbish bags to enable us to clean our school

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They are very aware of how easily rubbish in our school can end up in the drains and into the ocean

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? We don’t want the turtles to eat that plastic

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Dog poo in a bag

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bag, 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 class really enjoyed the activities and they linked really well to our kaitiakitanga unit on oceans.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The Real Turtle Tracking Reports which made the learning personal and meaningful — they weren’t just reading about sea life, they were tracking it and caring about its journey. This helped build curiosity and empathy for the environment. Turtle Diary Activities This encouraged creative writing, reflection, and deeper understanding of the impacts of pollution on ocean animals. Hands-On Cleanup Materialsh bags made the environmental learning active, practical, and student-driven

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 8 bags

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? This kit had a really positive impact on our class culture around whenua ora and sustainability. Students became more aware of how their everyday actions affect the land and ocean, and they showed increased care and responsibility for our environment. We noticed more conversations about reducing rubbish, looking after our school grounds, and reminding each other to be kaitiaki. The shared experience helped build a sense of collective responsibility and pride in caring for our 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? “Even little bits of rubbish can hurt animals.”

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A piece of netting we wondered how it got there and one student found a really old looking bottle of drink that you can't buy anymore so we were like look how long that might have been around as rubbish

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

“We used Diary of a Turtle 25 from School Kits NZ for our Junior School of year 1-4's. It was a fantastic resource for our syndicate. The kit was engaging and age-appropriate and really helped support our learning about the environment and caring for our natural world. The activities and resrouces were easy to use and sparked great discussions, and the students were highly motivated throughout. A great, ready-to-go kit that I would happily use again.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The tracker - really engaged the children and reinforced the reason to pick up rubish in our community of Picton.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The children have always been clean Kiwis so this kit really helped reinforce the community culture around land wellness

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? Keep our community clean for the sea, land and sky animals

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Tic Tac container squished and in the drain

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

“Kea class loved the kit this year. We tracked Seayonce the turtle for 10 days and were surprised at how far she travelled not only in one day but over the tital tracking time. All of the resourses were fabulous and at the level for the kids.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves, turtle picture with the bar code and the collabrative art

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? one

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They are constantly picking up rubbish during play times. They keep our school clean and tidy.

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? Thats so cool.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Nothing that stood out as unusual.

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

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

“Diary of a Turtle is a fantastic school toolkit that makes learning both fun and meaningful. Tracking and following our turtle, Ariel, was an exciting experience that kept us engaged and curious throughout. It was truly amazing to see just how far turtles can travel and to learn about their journeys in a real and memorable way. This toolkit brings marine science to life and is a wonderful resource for helping students connect with nature while learning important concepts.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Everything

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We are a class that lives and breaths all things via Te Ao Māori so to have a kit connect us via our class pet made everything more real for our tamariki.

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? Wow Whaea this is the reason we have to be good Kaitiaki !!!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Cotton buds

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, 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

“We have a class turtle, Red eared slider so the building of matauranga around kaitiakitanga of our waterways and oceans really hit home. the understading and empathy the tamariki showed and shared has been amazing. Great learning out in te Taiao also.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Text messages - tamariki really understood speaking and writing as if they were a turtle and what they would see, how they would feel, and what they would do.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We are a rubbish free school and decided that with this kit we would collect the rubbish from tamariki's lunch box over a period of a few weeks and see what we ended up with. This was quite overwhelming for some of them when they realised how much collectively just our class did collect. We then used some of these items to make our art project.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We often now have tamariki come to us and say that they had seen rubbish on the ground, particularly plastic and that they picked it up and put it in the bin.

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? "What can we do to help the Turtles?" Tamariki really wanted to know what they could do now, at school, and at home to stop so much rubbish ending up in the ocean.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? general packet type wrappers from snacks

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

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

“We are a class of New Entrants and what stood out for our tamariki was writing the daily responses to the Sea Cleaners messages. We also shared additional photos of rubbish on beaches around the world and they constantly asked, "Is this real?" Having the diary template, the Sea Cleaners messages and videos really hooked tamariki into the topic. This lasted for 8 weeks of the term!”

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Posted 1 month ago