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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 "We loved our recipe and made good choices for our substitutions!" "Our cupcakes were not cooked all the way through and because we made our mixture too wet. Next time we would add more dry ingredients." "This was so much fun and I learnt about the different types of food I could substitute for sugar."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Having the tins of food already there were great. It saved on going to the supermarket and we had an actual product for the students to look at and read the labels before they started.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They are keen to keep trialling different recipes to come up with a better consistency. In Year 10 we have a design your own icecream flavour competition with a local ice cream shop and this unit prepares them for this competition!

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It made the students more aware of what they are consuming. We looked at the food labels standards too and it was very interesting.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Made them more aware of the amounts of different ingredients they consume and the %age daily intake in one serving.

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

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? Some were going home to discuss what they had learned. More about widening their food choices and being keen to try new foods.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Tic tok! Social media and bombardment of advertising. Busy lifestyles and lack of prep time.

“This was a great unit to help students understand about ingredient substitution. We had a lot of fun making the cupcakes and trying them before having a second go. Unfortunately, we ran out of time for a third attempt but they were definitely memorable!”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them It was so much fun. I didn't know you could do that to make cake.

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What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Thinking about what it is different baked goods.

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Students shared the process with families.

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

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? The kids have been able to have discussions with family.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Time and money

“Great learning with this kit.”

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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 'It was fun to experiment with different ingredients.' Bella Wood. 'We reduced sugar and added more butter - the result was the cupcakes were too buttery and lacked a pleasing taste,' Charlotte.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Scales and checking how they measured and calibarated

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? An enjoyablable experimental morning in the kitchen and knowing it is worthwhile creating something unique. You can't really go wrong.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was a discussion.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? By baking at home we can choose what ingredients are going into our food and how much.

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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? Baking for home.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Age - and being present during the grocery shopping.

“Our class loved bringing maths into the kitchen. It was the perfect finish to our measurement unit.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "Wow it's actually really good" "I can taste it but I can't really taste it you know. It's yum!"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? chickpeas seem to be a hit in the baking.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Fun cooking experience.

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? Lots of ideas for baking/new ingredients.

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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? Experiences cooking together.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of living - buying healthier options is sometimes more expensive.

“It was lots of fun! There was a huge interest in it and lots of science thinking.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I didn't know beetroot could go in cake, I thought beetroot was like a root of a plant or something." "This is my first time being allowed to do cooking and I like doing it."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The countdown voucher - made it possible to get everything we needed without the teacher having to pay for it.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Vegetables can replace less healthy or scarce ingredients in our cooking.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very - they learned a lot about substituting veges in dishes they already eat.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Being more resourceful when cooking, thinking about what's in season and available so therefore cheap.

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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? It linked with our hauora learning which has involved whānau engagement.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? They can only eat what is given to them - which is often not the most healthy thing - as they are too young to cook by themselves.

“We used the Make Vegetable Cake kit to spark interest just before we launched our Garden to Table trial. It fitted in perfectly to spark interest and gave them a science base to relate back to as the term progressed. The students brainstormed other ways they could use science with food and wanted to make an alternative to whitebait patties after learning about taonga species so we went on to do that as an extension of the kit.”

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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 showed good understanding of fair testing and chemical change later in the term when we completed formative feedback when the referenced the experiment. They said multiple times throughout the lesson how fun the experiment and learning was - "can we do this sort of thing more often?!"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The recipe planning sheets made it very easy to follow for the students. The resources were perfect and easy to use/follow.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Key learning around fair testing and chemical change, in a fun learning context

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Good, although it was not our main focus of learning. It was interesting learning about sugar substitutes.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Sugar alternatives.

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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? Learning about healthy substitutes for processed foods.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Education and lower socioeconomic families.

“This was amazing. The kids were SO engaged and excited. It was a perfect experiement for learning about fair tests, and the chemistry behind baking, which were exactly our learning goals for that week. On top of what was provided I also supplied mashed banana, cooked and mashed dates, and pureed pumpkin. They loved having all the options and designing their recipes.”

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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 loved measuring and weighing the ingredients, it was fun. Sophia It was funny that we weighed the ingredients but ours was runnier than the other group, they tasted so yummy though. Peter

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The scales were incredibly helpful. The review sheets were great, the children really connected with filling them out. Teh voucher to spend was helpful as we usually use our own money.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? How to think about healthy versus unhealthy options.

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Their knowledge of weighing and combining ingredients, the importance of correct weighing and the ability to follow directins (recipe).

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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? Children are thinking about what they are eating and drinking and there will be more buy in at home with healthy alternatives.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Family unable to afford healthy alternatives. Sickness in the family so food is not prepared.

“Wow - just the best. The tamariki had so much in depth learning from making recipes, reviewing and tasting and then changing the recipe. This was excellent resources, with excellent teaching. Thanks!”

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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 Fun! Yummy! Vegetables can taste nice in a cake :)

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Easy to follow instructions which were understood by the students.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Hopefully something they could look at doing at home.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Fairly, along with other aspects of our course it helped. Hands on always is a winner.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Pass on what they have learned in class about what is considered 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? Students sharing their knowledge and making the cakes at home for their whanau

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? financial, dietary issues at times, accessibility to fresh fruit/vege

“This a great activity done with my Year 9/10 to incorporate into our Food Science course. Helped to show what can be used in the cake, work out the nutrition values of the different vegetables and different flavours with the different types of vegetable.”

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