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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? This has inspired us to experiment more with different types of foods. We want to explore what other foods we can adapt by adding things that are out of the ordinary.

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? This was a great way to look at measurement and the scientific process.

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“This was an excellent way to get the kids thinking outside the box with cooking. Some of the ideas worked well and others didn't. However, everyone learned a lot and had fun :)”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More baking and manipulating cooking

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 maths, lots of thinking! The children loved making the playlist of experiments

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“Great kit once we got into it. Kids loved it and worked in groups with a different vegetable”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More alternate ways to cool and more interest in science

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? Fantastic

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“We were due to start this the day Covid hit Auckland. The class were incredibly excited. Post lockdown I just had 7 kids who enjoyed it but wasn’t able to do the online due to overwhelm bjt what an awesome science based resource”

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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? I would definitely use something like this again. Unfortunately my time frames were too tight but I can see the potential to conduct a large scale investigation into baking, ingredient proportions and experimentation with multiple variables. There could b

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? Use of measurement & proportions for maths. Very clear links to science & the scientific method. There are good youtube videos available to support learning and explain the chemical reactions that occur during baking.

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“The kit was great - I could figure out how to adapt it to year 4 but I can see the potential to take the learning further and deeper. The teacher notes were well written and had plenty of substance. I liked the recipe cards and the poster made a good display.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Checking labels on products to see sugar content and those that say reduced sugar - how much is it reduced? My photo of the cakes would not upload for some reason.

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? Huge engagement. Great talking about the science of what is happening to the mixture. Measuring was also interesting to watch develop and improve.

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“This was a fantastic kit. My class really enjoyed making the three different cakes. I like how we did the control cake first before swapping things out. The parents also enjoyed hearing about what they did. In the last cake trial I let the students make some choices for themselves from fruit and veges they had at home. It was great being able to discover what the different ingredients did for the cake. Lots of amazing learning. i would definitely do this again.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Our children were already keen in the kitchen - this kit encouraged the children to explore further with new recipes, other ways to substitute main ingredients and how to improve overall health component of cake baking.

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 measuring side of things was a great practical context for Mathematics. Understanding the chemistry behind cake baking clearly linked to Science teaching. The experiments leading up to the actual baking was great exploration of chemistry.

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“This was a great kit that we were able to use with our large class of Year 7 and 8 students. They were already keen bakers in the kitchen, so this was a nice extension of some earlier learning we had worked through. The children were fascinated by the basic cake recipe anyhow it works. They had a lot of fun substituting and adding in vegetables.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Doing mor cooking with my children and promoting healthy eating.

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? Yes we had been learning about measurement so it helped immensly.

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“The children enjoyed learning about making healthy vegetable cake.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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