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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 1:Some of the cupcakes tasted bad. I enjoyed mixing the cupcake batter. 2: I enjoyed mixing the batter - some cupcakes were hard and some were soft

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The testing/feedback sheets were a great tool to guide students' critical thinking about

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? An understanding about how baking can be adjusted to make it more healthy.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Some students did not enjoy the appearance/taste of the veggie adjusted cupcakes. However, students enjoyed swapping out the ingredients.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Students have improved their undersanding of how to measure accurately, and how to make healthy substitutions.

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

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? Students now have ideas about how to make healthy substitutions when cooking. They also have learned ways to

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? As young students, sometimes their eating habits tend towards the fast packaged lunch food.

“Our class thoroughly enjoyed the process of baking the cupcakes, tweaking the recipe, and adjusting. It was a great way to adjust for dietary needs, and students learned lots about the consistency of batter, how much to beat the mixture, and how to accurately measure.”

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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 you could use Chickpea Juice instead of eggs" "I liked the taste better than I thought I would"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The measuring scales were really good - taught students about accuracy and they had fun guessing the weights of things before we put them on the scales.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Hopefully that you can add more vegetables and less sugar to baking without compromising on taste!

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It added to our values that we already have in our school and classroom

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? I know that students went back and talked to their whanau about what we had done and learnt as parents commented positively the next day

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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? Carrying on conversations we have already started at our kura

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost and education

“We had a fantastic time of baking, chatting, experimenting, wondering and tasting in our class. Loads of excited learners with some brave tasting of different flavours they hadn't tried in a cake before. Thank you for the idea about whisking the eggs and then measuring - lifesaver! Lots of chat about how much to measure if we double the recipe or triple it. (Great for Measurement Strand) We did all our baking in the classroom with 3 pie makers on the go. The oven was too far away from our class so we thought we would use what we had - worked a treat!”

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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 1: I didn't know that lime juice made that many bubbles! It was really interesting looking at the different liquids and how they made bubbles. 2: It is quite easy to remove sugar from recipes by substituting things. I have been looking at baking at home and what I can change there as well. 3: It is like playing a mystery taste game, you never know when something is going to taste good or horrible... It definitely made you think about what ingredients you substituted.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The tin of apples was very lucrative! It was helpful having the sheets to show the different substitutions, the visual was great and they could clearly see the highlighted circles where they had substituted ingredients

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They were very taken aback by the bubbles and the chemical reactions, this will stick with them for awhile I think as they keep bringing it up. I also think the knowledge that it is ok to substitute ingredients when cooking, trial and error is a great thing and they are getting pretty good at it!

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? We have a very healthy class anyway, they eat a lot of fruit so it fit in well. Lots of good discussion about reducing sugar.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? reducing sugar and fats within their home cooking by substituting, also the knowledge of how much sugar is in different recipes.

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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? The students can take home the infographics they made with the different substitutions, this will help those that aren't aware of what else you can use. Some of the substitutions were also a lot more cost effective than the main ingredient so they are able to think about it from a cost factor as well.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost is a huge factor for our students, many are struggling each week and food is getting more expensive.

“The students loved looking at the trial cakes through a different lens, they were amazed by the effect bubbles had in the testing and then how this showed in the cakes that were made. Initially they were very safe with the substitutions and then they moved to more complex substitutions for many successful and unsuccessful attempts!”

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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 science was apart of cooking". "This was so much fun - I've never made a cake with vegetables like beetroot before".

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? having a range of tinned ingredients - sweet and savoury. Having scales and the voucher were great too!

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Linking more of the curriculum together.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Really good, it tided in with our healthy eating unit really well.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? knowing their is a substitute to put into baking that can be healthier

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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? Kids educating their whanau

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? the knowledge and maybe money?

“This was a great kit that linked in with our healthy eating unit and our cooking unit. It was great for kids to see the science behind cooking and make that link. It was so handy having some of the ingredients provided and a voucher to help cover the other things that needed to be purchased. Having scales in the kit was amazing and we can now use them in our kitchen for other cooking!”

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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 liked being able to decide what to do and use. Ours didn't work... but I know what to do to improve it.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The whole kit is organised so well making it very easy to use. having everything provided makes it easy for the teacher.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They will be more willing to try new things. The chemistry of baking!! this was eye opening.....

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? They are already pretty healthy eaters.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? The make up of things they bake and what is good and bad and how to balance this.

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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? Taking this knowledge home and influencing what is cooked by doing themselves.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Not much in our school....

“Class enjoyed the activity. We do garden to table so are familiar with the cooking process, so this was a great addition to get us to think about how recipes are developed.”

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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 we could put veges in a cake. Eating the rainbow will keep us healthy.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the scales as it taught us how to measure things. (child's voice)

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They have taken the recipe home to share with their whanau.

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Cooking more healthy. They take veges home from our school garden aswell.

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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? kids talking to whanau about healthy eating and drinking. Meaning drinking water is the best drink we can drink, not have a pie for breakfast, but come to school and have weetbix.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? cost of living. Fizzy and junk food is cheaper

“We started by learning about healthy eating through the 5-plus-a-day unit. The kids loved this and learning about eating the rainbow, and what we need to be healthy. We looked at cake recipes and some of the kids bought recipes from home and we made some cupcakes with their recipes. Then we talked about sugar and some of the stuff we could put in our cake. I then bought the kit with the ingredients in it. They were like yuk we wouldn't put that in a cake then I got the cooks in the kitchen to make their beetroot cake and gave it to the kids, and they loved it. It was only after they ate it that I told them it was beetroot. At first, they were yuk, then I reminded them they just ate it. We then looked at the box again and made a cake with beetroot and the spiced apple. They loved it . They are eating the rainbow more and more everyday.”

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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 cake made me realise that vegetables are healthy and that when used can make our cakes healthier.I was surprised that vegetables can make an impact ion the cake.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Planning page

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Remember the ingredients, different combinations to improve it.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Made us think about it more than we realised.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? It has opened up discussions about alternatives that can be used.

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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? Awareness of the versatility of vegetables.

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

“It was easy to understand the idea but challenging to decide what vegetable to use.”

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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 and I learnt about vegetables. I like the videos our teacher showed us. It was OK to fail we were experimenting.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The hands on making. We looked at the selection of vege and talked about what else could be used. It was great to have the food card to top up our changes.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Fun! Baking is about maths and science. Vegetables can be used in different ways.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Just reinforce what they knew I think.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Students gain confidence in the kitchen. Students learn veges can be frozen, canned, fresh.

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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? Studnets bringing home that knowledge to whanau and talking about their learning in an excited way. Starts a conversation at home.

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

“This kit was used as part of our term inquiry in to change and challenge. The students were investigating chemical change (reactions) in food. This kit was engaging and came with resources the students loved. I substituted the apple for pureed pumpkin and there was no issue with that. I appreciated all of the supporting resources and videos to upskill as a teacher. At first the lack of method to make the cake was frustrating but it was great in the end as we figured it out using our prior knowledge of food reactions.”

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Posted 1 year ago