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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This really helped with co operative learning and social grouping. It was great to be able to have the children in mixed ability groups so the children could support and encourage each other. The future learning was how I could mix up my children for our

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? The children in my class love eating! It showed them that when ever we are baking it has a degree of science and lots of maths!

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“The kids had so much fun with the measuring and mixing component of this kit. They loved being able to swap out sugar for different sweet ingredients. It fitted in beautifully with our maths topic of fractions and measurement. Our school has just become part of lunches in schools so it was great for the kids to see that healthy food tastes great and doesn't need to contain sugar.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Thinking a lot more about how we teach science as a cross curriculum activity.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Practical application for measurement is always good. Good learning opportunities around the process of chemical change.

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“I think we rushed a little with the scientific thinking for this kit, we just missed a window due to lockdown to tie it in well with our inquiry learning. We did develop the student's understanding of scientific change and their perceptions around the taste of healthy foods.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Kids were excited to change variables and try this again with different ingredients in the future to see how it changes results.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? It helped enagage students in science/chemistry. It encouraged students to make and record careful scientific observations. It also helped them to understand the concept of fair tests and changing variables.

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“I'm sorry this feedback was delayed. I am afraid that I didn't actually get to use this myself. We ran out of time in Term 2 due to finishing boards for science fair. I didn't want it to gather dust on my shelf so I passed it onto my colleague to use this term as they were studying chemistry. I have asked her about it so am posting her feedback.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Children have been keen to take learning home and have tried to cook different varieties at home.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Great cross links with Maths and science. Children's focus on solid, liquid and gases went well and they made lots of connection when making the cakes.

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“Great unit! Children absolutely loved it! Would definitely sign up again. My only suggestion is it was expensive to get all the ingredients so the $10 voucher was no where near enough. We spent at a class well over $50 on what we needed.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Some students are willing to use vegetables in cakes now, I even had a student make a zucchini cake at home and bring a slice in for me. Many were amazed that vegetables could be a great substitute for a variety of ingredients. It was definitely a taste t

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Using the scales and measuring they show real thinking skills about what ingredients they would exchange and were able to justify why they did so. What ingredients together caused a reaction. Making a prediction or hypothesis about what the outcome would

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“When our kit arrives we sit in a circle and guess what could be inside - this is a great way to get everyone excited about the kit. Overall a really engaging kit. It allow many students to extend their comfort zone with foods as many had not tried chickpea or beetroot before let alone in a cupcake.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? That the children could go home and experiment with a variety of alternatives. Thought provoking about healthy eating. Mathematics is applied in practical, everyday life, so becomes meaningful to the students. Fun

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? As above. They enjoyed exploring the different alternatives and I found it very interesting being able to apply the Associative Mathematics and that the recipes were basically successful. It helped the children to think about the ingredients that held nat

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“I found the material to be very engaging. A slide show was made from the material for our online students to do the exercises at home. Only one person completed the exercise so I repeated the work when we returned to school as a class. The children really enjoyed choosing and trying the alternative ingredients. Most enjoyed their creations and were inspired to try other alternatives. The science that lent itself to the unit of work was excellent and informative. Also the mathematics that could be used in a practical way. All and all an excellent resource.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We were hoping to incorporate other vegetables and see what kids could create on their own with randomized ingredients.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? They learnt lots about the chemical/physical changes. Also able to apply proportional thinking to the cake making. Gave a real life context to the ratio learning we had been doing.

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“Great connection with maths science focus. Kids loved the idea and we all learnt heaps.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This was a great kit to teach the students to think outside the box with practical's. It gave students the skills to think about the component's that can be used.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Looking at the fats and the science behind raising agents

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“What an amazing teaching tool, Resources well thought out and activities very student friendly”

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Posted 3 years ago

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