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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 Students had no idea how much sugar is hidden in everyday products. They now know how it is concealed in different names and they check nutritional labels on food. They also have continued to reduce the amount of sugar they use when baking.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The digital scales were fantastic for checking the accuracy of their estimates.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They will remember this learning and apply it to making better food choices and to consider using alternative, healthier ingredients when baking.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very effective, lots of students tried different vegetables and legumes especially chickpeas, pumpkin, kumara because it was hidden in a cupcake.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? They will be able to give advice when at the supermarket and make better choices with the food they have in their lunches at school.

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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? Through discussion, sharing their learning throught he PP they produced.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Parents working full time and choosing pre-made food from supermarkets due to lack of time to cook from scratch.

“Thanks, School Kit for another awesome learning experience. My students were fully engaged for the whole term and it was easy to add extra aspects to further their learning. Students delved into learning about the properties of substances and were involved in many Science investigations before we started the baking component. Apart from the initial 'Order of Ingredients' trial most of the other baking was rather unappetising, which was fine. It was an exercise in persistence and trial and error and the students were not discouraged by their failures. Fortunately, we called on an expert to judge our final round of cupcakes and she was able to pinpoint the problem. This resulted in one final batch being made which did turn out well. The students shared their learning at an Assembly and presented a PP they had made to show the journey they went through.”

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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 so fun making a cake out of vegetables. I loved learning what all the ingredients did in a cake.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? recipes, sheets, scale

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? I will do this again with another class

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was good. We discussed sugar and the negative effects/

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? They took their recipes home to make with whanau

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 20%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Sending the information home was great

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? money- vegetables expensive., knowledge,

“This was an enjoyable set of lessons. Tamaraki loved making all the different cakes and substatuting ingredients. They found learning about what each part of the cake ingredients do interesting.”

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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 These were some much fun. Can we make more muffins?

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The scales and vouchers towards the other ingredients needed.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The fact that they can swap out ingredients and experiment with recipes.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Students tried vegetabes they hadn't tried before.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Look at reducing sugar/fat in 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? Try these recipes or adaptions at home

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

“Such a great kit. Students really enjoyed the science behind baking their own creations. Also really handy resources which can be used again such as the scales.”

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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 coming up with different combinations. I liked learning how to make a recipe that worked.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? All were helpful. The posters and handouts were great. We still have the poster on the wall.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The ability to create their own recipes as opposed to just following others.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? That wasn't our main focus but the students did realise how they could make healthier options that we still tasty.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Replacing sugar with other ingrediants still works well.

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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? It's great for students to be able to have discussion with their whānau and bring new ideas into the home.

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

“This kit was great fun in our year 7/8 class. They really enjoyed creating new concoctions and it linked perfectly into their inquiry around Chemical and Physical change. Highly recommend.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them We didn't think that the corn would make the cake taste very nice. Ooh - the chick peas make it quite hard to mix. It's a bit drier than our last cake.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The scales provided opportunity for accurate measurement of ingredients - another plus.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? My students have learnt that hey can adapt the basic recipe and create cakes of their own.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was very effective and really tested student's thinking

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Sugar is hidden everywhere!

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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? Share info about sugar

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? None

“My class thoroughly enjoyed the vegetable cake kits. There was great learning in science, discussing variables and scientific processes. There was a lot of learning in only choosing one variable to change in each cake mixture. There was also an opportunity to build a sense of team and mahi tahi - working together as one to create a cake mix that was agreeable to the taste buds.”

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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 Awareness of vegetables in diet and foods we eat, also adding them more to our recipes.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? There was far too much in the kit for me to even read let alone do. I kept to a basic plan due to time restaints.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Eating vegetable cakes.

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Sharing recipes and food taken home to share.

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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? Hopefully encourage students to try using vegetables more widely in their diets and recipes.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost. I have a file of photos I cant load below. Will send it separately.

“I did this with a group of 10 students, working in pairs. I made the "control cake" with only the base ingredients- no fruit or vegetable. The other students had one of either- chickpeas, beetroot, corn, and orange,or apple. We then blind tasted them all and came up with the unanimous decision that lemon flavoured the best, but chickpeas made them moist. The foolowing week they cooked up their own recipe agian with only base ingredients but their choice of a fruit and a vegetable combined. Again we blind tested, and decided that the fruit overpowered any flavour of vegetable. They liked the fact that their cupcakes were more nutritious with the addition of vegetables.”

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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 learnt about budgeting and was able to out less sugar in my cupcakes because we used blueberries and apples - Isla. I found out that if you use canned apples, it makes the cupcakes crumbly - Ever

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Understanding the poster and how the ingredients change the outcome of the cupcake.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That they can use less refined sugar in their baking by substituting it with fruits or vegetables.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Ok, they enjoyed the cupcakes and a few of them took these recipe's home. In the past few weeks I have had a few children bring in cakes made of fruit and vegetables. The children were excited about baking at home after this project though. It's nice when I hear about the children taking charge in the kitchen!

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? They now have a substitution for sugar so hopefully this allows their family to enjoy a few more healthy treats.

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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? Reading up about alternative recipes and understanding that this contributes to their health and wellbeing.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Fruit and vegetables are so damned expensive!

“We loved this kit. It was enjoyable. The kids loved experimenting with the fruit and vegetables together with the base ingredients and were able to acknowledge that sugar can be replaced with other ingredients, yet give similar flavours.”

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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 really like how we are doing this and making our own creations. This is fun.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The basic components of making a cake, they wanted to be able to do this at home too. The swaps, a couple of the students looked up what else they could use instead of an egg and then went searching for banana.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Loved the doing aspect of the kit and the taste testing was a hit. They were very empowered by being able to sample and compare. The taste test sheets were not too complex to fill in which meant they could get into the eating part

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Chickpeas was very interesting for them as a canned product. Surprisingly, they weren't too keen on using the beetroot but I encouraged a group to use it. The corn and apple were safer as they were familiar with these products.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Substituting ingredients to reduce sugar intake. Binding foods and the components within a cake which could be replaced with healthier food options

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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? They will share this learning at home, some students wanted to take the proportion sheet home with them

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Well I think canned food is a good option to be honest. Unfortunately fruit and vegetable prices are high and many people resort to buying convenience packaged foods

“We just loved this kit here at The Terrace School in Alexandra. The year 8 group really enjoyed substituting ingredients to create their own special cakes. Lots of fun and laughter along the way with this kit. So pleased we signed up for this one! The beetroot really made their creations colourful!”

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