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

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Didn't know veges could go in a cake. Kai was yummy

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Simple ingredients

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Earing healthy can be easy

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Really good

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? How to use veges in baking

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 30%

How keen were your students to try healthy alternatives in baking at the start of this kit?

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Healthy eating

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Knowledge

“My kids lived making the vege cake. It worked in really well with our healthy eating topic.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Great kit for year 7/8. Students were engaged and we had a blast!”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "Ms. I don't like beetroot .... later...oh yummy not so bad."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? They enjoyed learning the chemistry behind cooking

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? You can replace items in order to achieve similar results but you most follow a recipe.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? In order to achieve that we will have to keep reinforcing heathy eating in our school :)

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Participate more in the kitchen with their families.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 90%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Is a start

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Change of mentality that comes from generations.

“I am a Year 5/6 teacher, and we had a great time making this recipe! However, I found that the chemistry lesson was a bit too advanced for my students. They had trouble replacing some of the items, so I had to offer them quite a bit of guidance. Additionally, the voucher we had wasn't enough to provide each child with the necessary ingredients. Therefore, I had to outsource the rest of the ingredients. Nevertheless, it was a fun experience for the kids as they enjoy hands-on learning, especially when they get to eat the result later. Thank you Ms Ponciano”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I know what the label is for on the packaging". I can make a cake now"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The recipe substitutions, ingredients, and review sheets.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Being conscious about the ingredients in our food.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very effective. Good resources and support.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Conversations and awareness about ingredients in their food.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 80%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Not sure.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Mainly the cost.

“The Make a Vegetable Cake kit made our class become more aware of the ingredients in our food. We had many conversations about what goes into the things we get from the supermarket. We learnt about substituting ingredients and becoming more responsible about reading the label on our groceries.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Rory thought, "It is a little bit crazy to be making cake with vegetables!" Molly said, "My mum never uses any vegetables except carrots to make cake. I can't wait to show her what we have done."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The chickpeas were the most impactful because of the surprise of the aquafaba! Who knew!

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? I think that they will view a wider range of foods as options in their own cookery.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was quite effective as a way to promote healthy food but given the choice, most students still wanted the high sugar, chocolate overload cake.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? The students felt that they could prompt their parents to look into using vegetables in a wider range of ways.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 70%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Students are the teachers in the home and this was yet another example of how they work within that role. Learn healthy, explore healthy, develop healthy habits.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Fast food options abound and fast food advertising is a powerful medium to create impressions on impressionable minds.

“This was a fabulous science and maths investigation.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I didn't think the cake would taste nice using the ingredients we had, but I tried it and it wasn't too bad. It was fun doing this activity, I want to do some baking at home and show mum what to do.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The cans of food because they provided different tastes and textures for the children to experience.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Give things a try, you don't know if you like it or not until you do the taste test.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? The children were keen to share this experience with whanau and try the recipes at home.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? You can create healthy eating from veges/fruit from a can.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 70%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? The children were talking about baking and using canned goods to create dishes at home.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Being unaware of what veges/fruit comes in a can.

“The tamariki loved baking and enjoyed trying the recipe and tasting it as well.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Quotes from the students. "Didn't know peanut butter could be used in muffins. It made them taste super yum." "I now know you can replace sugar and eggs with other things." "Sugar makes my brain go faster."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Recipe cards and the review cards were simple enough for the special needs kids to use. We loved the fact that it did not matter which order you putb the ingredients together.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Different for each student from learning to use the scales to understanding about sugar to reviewing what they made and thinking about why.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? For these students an awareness of how much sugar in used in food to make it taste better.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? You can use tinned vegetables and fruity to put in muffins and they taste good.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 40%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? The students took home a copy of the recipes to make in the holidays.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Takeaways too often and processed foods.

“The special needs students learned so much. They made up the basic recipe as a control which made four muffins. They were in groups of three with a teacher aide assigned to each group. They then made muffins with tinned vegetables in them and the next day made muffins with fruit in them. Looking at the reviews they liked the vegetable ones the best. When making the fruit muffins the fruit was chosen to replace the sugar and the students said they lacked flavour. We didn't see that coming! Having small groups all the students were able to use the digital scales stopping at the number 60g. Blitzing the vegetables and fruit was such a great idea. This kept the recipe simple to make.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Some were not sure sure about putting corn or chickpeas into baking. 'Wow' was used a lot, 'Gross' acutally thats doesn't taste that bad.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the chemical reactions - they loved this general discussion

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That so many healthy vegetables can go in a cake and that they were brave enough to eat them!

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? I'm very lucky that I have a class of very healthy eaters, so it was another tool to add to their kete to try.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? not being afrad to try different ingrediants in cakes but knowing you have to have the basic ingrediants but then you can try other types of affordable foods.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 70%

How keen were your students to try healthy alternatives in baking at the start of this kit?

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How inspired were your students to try healthy alternatives to backing after using the kit?

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Lots of photos, continue to bake at home with whanau.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? None - we are very lucky.

“Like the heading says Make vegetable cake - who knew that you could add so many different vegetables to make cake? When I first read this I didn't think the cakes would be that appetising to eat, like a small child sitting at the kitchen table I must admit I screwed my nose up at the thought. However, that's why I teach year 7-8 children their braver than me! They took the challenge on without a blink of an eye.”

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Posted 1 year ago