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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 I like the food that we made it teaches me how to make healthy food

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Understanding that healthy fruit doesn’t taste that bad and is easy to make

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That making food is some better than buying food

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very effective especially for some of my fussy eaters

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Simple recipes that we made in class that made delicious food

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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 can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? They took copies of the recipes Home to share with their families

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of fresh fruit and vegetables

“Students really enjoyed this kit and learnt how veggies can still taste delicious”

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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 They were yum but I was scared to try it at first. I will try beetroot cake again. I didn’t like it but it was fun learning about the ingredients.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Putting it all together with the baking of the cakes. Hands on activity.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Most cakes taste great if the correct combinations are used. Don’t be afraid to give everything a go.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Most students would be willing to try new combinations.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Positive experience around food even if it was not what you normally eat.

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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? Healthy eating with family

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Financial hardship and busy families not cooking at home.

“What an interesting experience the children had with this School Kit. They could not believe that the vegetables in the cake tasted soo good. Some students had not had beetroot or chick peas before. Excellent learning experiences around chemistry and food combinations. It inspired some fabulous writing because of the interesting conversations. Thanks again School Kit for this resource.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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 "I didn't know that you could use vegetables in baking instead of sugar to make them healthier" "There is lots of maths in baking!"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? I thought the maths - weighing and measuring of ingredients and learning how to use vegetables in a different way.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? To measure and weigh ingredients carefully and think about flavour combinations!

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Average. I don't think my students liked the idea of vegetables in cakes and they didn't think that the cakes tasted better than a cake or the vegetable on their own!

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Healthier substitutes for sugar in baking and that if you can find fresh vegetables that you can use canned as an alternative.

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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? It could be a good challenge to do at home with family. I also showed my students recipes for things like chocolate beetroot muffins, zucchini cake etc

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? I think most of our students have access to healthy eating. I think the biggest barrier is connivence food. It's easier to buy a packet than make.

“I really liked the idea of the kit, I thought it was a great way to introduce vegetables in a more tasty way and a good way to hide vegetables for students who don't really like vegetables on their own. The kit was a good way to introduce canned vegetables as being just a good alternative to fresh vegetables. The math and science components were excellent. Good for students to learn how to measure and weigh. The original recipe was a bit eggy tasting and it was a good way to learn about egg, sugar and flour substitutes. I found the students struggled to add vegetables they kept wanting to add more fruit than vegetables and I had to constantly bring them back to the vegetables. The blending of the whole vegetables wasn't great so we ended up trying a batch with baby food puree vegetable pouches instead which was better texture wise. The 'cakes' turned out ok and were fun to make but tastewise the students didn't really rate them and they were a bit doughy but that could just be the combinations they used!”

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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 When we added too much corn and not enough sugar they were more like muffins than cakes, they were still kinda good though. I didn't know why cakes were soft and now I know that there are lots of things that have to work together to softness like sugar and bubbles and not mixing too much

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The recipe cards!

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? A sound understanding of the science behind cakes, and an idea of the different kinds of nutrients we can find in veggies

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very good! Our kids were already pretty good eaters due to GTT and Ka Ora Ka Ako, however we have had 2 more children attempt to try veggies who wouldn't normally

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? The kids are keen to share their successful substitutes with their whānau and are wanting to help out in the kitchen to help make healthy snacks

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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? We are hoping that they will continue to make healthy snacks for each other, and find creative ways to incorporate more veggies into their diets

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? It is gard to access fresh fruits and veggies where we are due to the distance from the nearest store being over 45 minutes drive for most of our families. It's also hugely costly for them. We have a school garden and fruit in schools programme that we share with our community twice a week but tinned and frozen veggies are the most cost effective, and not always the tastiest. This has given us another way to use these cheaper alternatives, in a tasty way

“Our kids loved baking for their younger classmates and extending the learning from the garden to table programme. They now have a better understanding of what the purpose of each ingredient in a recipe is, and how they interact to make something delicious, edible or gross.”

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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 found out I’m not a great baker…yet”. “I was interested to find out we don’t have to use sugar to make a cake sweet”.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Designing and experimenting with different food combinations

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That ingredients can be interchangeable.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? We had some great discussions including what happens when food is dehydrated

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Done have tried to “perfect” their recipes

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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? Our kids made ads to share with their families

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? They aren’t very adventurous with their taste buds and are often reluctant to even try an alternative

“The kids really enjoyed the experimental nature of this kit. They loved being able to make some crazy creations and try their results.”

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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 " Who knew that beetroot could taste so good" - M "Do you think we could could use different vegetable dye our food?" - Eb "Chickpeas are the best egg replacement"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The different veggies inside and the chart explaining how to make cake.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That they can use veggies in lots of delicious and fun fun ways

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Most students now bring their own roasted chickpeas. Some are even open to eating beetroot. They're more happy to eat veggies.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? How to make a cake, how to use the different ingredients to replace some items like egg or milk.

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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? Knowledge about canned foods and how they can make baking just as good. They can also be aware of different recipes used to make cakes, cupcakes etc.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Money and although canned veggies and fruit the students were still aware of all the sugar used to preserves these food items. The second part of the enquiry was, is it still healthy if its in a can?

“This was an exciting adventure for the students. We unboxed everything together and discussed our learning, however, the students were more interested in if the different vegies would be a decent egg replacement (one student has an allergy). This lead to a weekly investigation about what different vegetables and fruit did to a cake (cupcake).”

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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 .

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the planning of their changes for the cakes

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Using different ingredients for cakes that seem unusual

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Made them curious about certain substitutes for foods.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? using other ingredients rather then sugar and flour

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

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What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? cost of living, resources and time at home

“Interesting kit and the kids enjoyed it, but I found the organisation way too hard to manage getting the right ingredients and then the prepping and cooking them.”

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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 They got to see the scientific method in action and they understood different aspects of what is needed to make a cake.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The step by step method to help the kids understand how to do an experiment.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They will remember making interesting cakes

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? We didn't really use it in that sense, more of an experiment side.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? They can see you can make things like cake healthy

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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? They can see it's easy to incorporate more healthy food

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Living in a food desert.

“This kit is a delightful engaging kit that kids love and help them understand the scientific method. It's easy to use and shows that science can be fun. It looks at an interesting side of science that kids might not think of and they do love getting a chance to try their different cakes.”

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