Diary of a Turtle 25 Reviews

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The ability to track turtles.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It was a great link to our sustainability inquiry.

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? Why do we need plastic?

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Paddle

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?

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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

“My kids absolutely loved the kit, especially tracking the turtles. We went down to our local stream to clean it up with the gloves and bags.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The online resources

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They are more aware of the rubbish in their lunch boxes

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? So much rubbish that the turtles might eat

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? None

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

“It was super hands on and we'll organised”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The rubbish collection because the children saw physically how much rubbish there was and they understood how dangerous the rubbish was to marine life

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Children spent a lot of their own time picking up rubbish and also bbecame more aware of their lunchbox contents and wrappers.

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? the rubbish will kill the turtles

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? a sock

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?

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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 loved learning about turtles and were really engaged with the topic. We learnt a lot about turtles and incorporated this learning into literacy and maths also.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Writing the diary of our turle that we were tracking - Ariel. They really belived the text messages were real and I got fantiastic writing out of it.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We part filled all of our bags from the kit - probably 3-4 full ones in total.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We looked into the drains at school and noticed all the food packages in the drainl. We did a school wide clean-up day and found lots of plastic food waste. We talked about it being everybodies responsibility to pick up rubbish when we see it.

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? The rubbish in the drain is going to go to the river then from the river to the sea and it can be eaten by the sea creatures and make them sick.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Underwear

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?

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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

“My children have loved this kit and and the learnng from it has been impactful. All of the components were useful. They loved the collaborative art piece, the turtle diary. We are keeping the gloves we used in our clean-u[p and will wash them to re-use next year. I can also track a turtle again from the website next year and re-use the texts.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Tracking the turtle was the most impactful, because it was interactive. They really engaged with it and seeing where the turtle went and how far it had swum.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 4 bags

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They are much more aware of their rubbish and where they are putting it. We encourage them to put lunchbox rubbish back in their lunchboxes to go home, and they are much more onboard with this now.

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? If we don't pick up our rubbish, it will go to the ocean and then turtles might think it's a jellyfish and eat it and get sick.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A dirty sock

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

“My ākonga really enjoyed the Diary of a Turtle kit! They loved tracking our turtle, Davis, and writing diaries about what he might have gotten up to. They also loved the "updates" from the Sea Cleaners crew on Davis' adventures. We did a clean up of our school, but we talked about how if we stop the litter from leaving our school grounds, that prevents it from going to the river, and then to the ocean. They really engaged with this and found lots of trash that we could sort through and analyze! We even were able to put out a message to our school about what we found and where, and ask everyone to make sure their rubbish from their lunchboxes got put away responsibly.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Hands on activity

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Can't remember

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Kids are a lot more aware of rubbish and the impacts

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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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? Can't remember

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Nothing that unusual - standard food rubbish etc

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

“Awesome kit, super engaging for the kids”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? All the resources provided were equally helpful as it helped tie the whole thing together.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? The children collected rubbish with their parents, and as families collected about 10 bags of rubbish.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The kit has helped the children understand the importance of looking after our environment, and the role they can play in doing so. They also realised that everything they did had a direct impact on the world around them, and learnt of different ways in which they could be more sustainable in their lives.

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 need to be kaitiaki to the turtles! Let's work together to save them and pick up rubbish from the drains before it goes into the pipes!"

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Not sure...

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?

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

“This resource was the perfect resource to use to introduce and explain the concept of Kaitiakitanga to my Year 1 class. It had all the necessary equipment (reusable gloves, rubbish bags etc.) to teach them about turtles, their habitats and how we can look after them, as well as other curriculum areas we could tie it all to. The children absolutely loved it!”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the bags, gloves and turtle

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? we used all the bags, but the total at the end filled up 2 bags.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? we also did a field trip to the beach to learn about caring for coastal environment, the kit helped follow up and sustain some of the lessons from there.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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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? Is this rubbish?

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? quite a bit of old school equipment.

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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Very helpful

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

Helped a little

Somewhat helpful

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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 really enjoyed the novelty of the gloves when we did our litter clean up. The poster about how much litter we picked up was difficult to use in practice as it was hard to sort through all the rubbish, complete a count, and record it onto that poster outside. Possibly several smaller posters for each bag/group would be better.”

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