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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 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%

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? 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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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%

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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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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Most kids said 'this is better than I was expecting'. They also said they'd had a lot of fun.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The accompanying resources (paper worksheets etc) were good, but I will adapt them for next time to save paper. I did find the teacher guide a bit overwhelming at first and wasn't sure where to start. It was quite broad and I was expecting more step by step lesson plans which would have been helpful when creating a plan that would last a few weeks.. But like anything, once I got my head around the content and lesson objectives, I found it had a lot of really helpful information and links.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That you can substitute ingredients to suit the needs of others (the stakeholder).

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Really good - the kids already knew about reducing sugar and this was a practical application of this knowledge.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? The knowledge and confidence to change ingredients to cook healthier 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? Gives the students confidence to try new things and use healthier alternatives successfully when cooking in future.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? This group of students would generally have very healthy diets with good quality ingredients at home.

“I did this for Year 8 Food Tech as an example of technological knowledge (formation, manipulation and transformation of ingredients). After reading other teacher's feedback about this school kit, I was a bit worried about how these kids would respond as this particular group can be very fussy eaters. However, I was pleasantly surprised as they really enjoyed experimenting and eating their cakes. They were motivated to keep creating new recipes and could've kept going if we had time.”

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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 know that I could use ingredients that I don't usually like to make something delicious'; 'I have never done baking before, but I will make this at home in the holidays - I liked the second version best.'

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The link to the scientific/technology process.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That cooking is science!

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Hard to tell - the children at our school are reasonably knowledgeable about healthy eating. They were more engaged with the scientific aspects of the kit.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? That healthy ingredients can create treats.

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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? If the children take their knowledge and experiences home, it may impact wider whānau.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Most don't have many, if any. For a minority, it would be the cost, the inconvenience or the lack of education around healthy eating.

“I was a bit overwhelmed with the complexity of this kit and it took a lot of organising and processing before implementation with my class, but it was a very rich learning experience.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I didn't know that some of the ingredients in a cake could be substituted eg. banana for an egg. It's amazing that a cake will still turn out even if you switch around the ingredients.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The class loved all the contents of the kit, especially impressed with the new set of scales, the tins of food and the easy to follow paper resources.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Hopefully give them a 'taste' for food made from scratch, the achievement of making something that nourishes them at a cost that's not extreme.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? The class have a really good idea of healthy eating, although sometimes it's tricky to put into practice! The combination of science and maths really did appeal to the class so this was a great way to get the healthy food message across.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Spreading the word about what can be done with very little!!

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 100%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Hopefully by realising that making things at home doesn't have to be expensive or take loads of time, also that ingredients can be substituted as needed.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? For some what they eat is out of their control eg. mum makes the dinner. A push might be to have students making their own lunches using their knowledge of 'healthy' foods.

“This was a fabulously designed and equipped kit with lots of interesting bits and pieces.”

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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 In room 2 we made cupcakes!there was two groups corn&apple so ms j decided to change something with our cupcakes she changed the inside of the cupcake. i thought it was so good and the texture was soft like a cloud after it was cooked. After it was cooked the sides were hard and the underneath was soft. When Mrs J put the mixture in cupcake holder it was heavy. (student 1) Before the cupcakes were made they were mushy,it looked like custard and after it was kinda soft and some of us had a biscuit texture and some was burnt. (student 2)

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The scales - this was another unexpected piece of learning. They loved watching the weight change and comparing the weight of the eggs.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That rotten eggs smell! (we didn't know it but during one of the experiments the egg weas rotten, so we had to start again. This prompted a very different lesson.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? A little, it wasn't the focus for the unit.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Incidentally I think and hope there would have been discussions about baking.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 50%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? We used Seesaw to share the learning we did in class, I think this was an effective way to share the knowledge with whanau.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? time, money, education

“For children who don't get to bake much this was sensational. They experimented with vegetables they had never seen before, they talked a lot about what might happen and then what did happen. The learning went beyond expectations.”

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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 the apple one was my favouriteI really likes the way we could make cakes healthier, it was a great argument for my mum!

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Ingredients - meant we could get on and bake

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Not all cake has to be completely unhealthy, you can put all sorts in there

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? How much sugar is in things, we don't have to stick to a recipe, try experimenting

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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? more family time, making healthier meals together

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? time and cost

“We loved this idea and had great fun trying out different recipes”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Kids were reluctant to try the baking with vegetables, but became more confident as the tasting went on, and then really enjoyed them.-many kids had never tried chickpeas, so we all had a taste and some were pleasantly surprised.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? So good having the scales included, and some different food than some kids had eaten before - most kids enjoyed Learning how to use scales for the first time.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That they are brave enough to try new things

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Especially getting them to try new to things. Would have been cool to have some examples of fresh vege to use too- zucchini/ carrot etc

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? That they are brave enough to try new things

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 60%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? We had a couple of parents helping for this, was interesting to see they were reluctant to try the vegetables before this too. One parent was also quick to tell kids that chickpeas were yuck! The way whānau talk to their kids about food obviously makes a big impact.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Lack of exposure, cost, negative attitudes towards food, whanau education

“I loved this kit and the opportunities for authentic maths and science learning. My class learned: how to use scales How to weigh in grams How to collate data and analyse trends How to make careful and accurate observations How to identify the weaknesses in data”

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