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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 Never would have thought of that as an ingredient in muffins, yummy! How can this be Maths?!

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Lesson plan and other teachers ideas. Good to have planning sheets

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Vegetables In muffins can be done and is yummy.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Open eyes to possibilities.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Use of veges, anything could be used. Healthy alternatives

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

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? Sharing the news via seesaw, class communication.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Budgets, allowed to cook at home,

“Using as a a part of immersion for making healthy choices for our body and innovations. Kids were keen to explore contents of box and develop ideas”

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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 the cooking chemistry kit, and loved tasting all the different cakes! I liked the cooking chemistry kit and learnt some new things about chemistry.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Cooking chemistry poster was excellent, Planning and links were useful too

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? It was helpful for the students to try new tastes and flavours - as all tried each cake (even the beetroot) even though they may not have tried the vegetables before! The kit also encouraged flexible thinking, as we had to substitue out the key ingredinets each time. It was also a great example of a fair test, and the students now know about the process of fair testing.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? I'm not sure to be honest. Even though we did substitute out sugar with each cake, and add vegetables, I'm not sure that this had any lasting impact on the students' healthy food choices.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? The idea of substituting vegetables in cooking may be something that they share with their families.

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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? Hopefully the students will share there learning with their families.

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

“My Year 5/6 class LOVED Make Vegetable Cake this Term. The process of refining recipes while substituting vegetables for the key ingredients really kept the students interested and they learned a lot about the function of each of the ingredients too. The planning was fairly straightforward and as usual, the kit had plenty of components that were all useful.”

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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 Students were surprised that vegetables could go into cake and that it would taste that good.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The science aspect was a hit.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The science behind baking and the though process in getting a low sugar vegetable cake

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? Lots of students went home a created another cake using vegetables they had at home

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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? I sent home ideas and recipes that could be tried at home.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Picky eaters

“We really enjoyed learning about the composition of cake and loved having a go at designing our own cakes using our knowledge. Trying them our was the best part.”

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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 would be more willing to try foods. Excited to try their own healthy experiments.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Tried and tested recipies! Gift card to help with the cost.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Being more open to trying foods

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? They are excited to share, replicate and build on this experience which makes an impact on the community.

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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? More ideas to expand on? Other recipies even if its just sharing with the kids to inspire them

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Not liking veges and fussy with fruits

“It was awesome having different vege options that all tasted good, and great teacher guidance :)”

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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 vegetables to make a cake and I experimented at home with other vege ingredients". Angus, age 8. "The balloon experiment was the coolest ever and now I know vinegar and baking soda make gas to blow things up". Kompton, age 9. "I really liked making the cakes more than once so you could keep changing things to make it better". Summer, age 8

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The vinegar and baking soda experiments were excellent as the kids enjoyed them so much and was a very graphic way of demonstrating how the baking soda worked in a cake recipeand the concept that different ingredients in different quantities made more or less successful reactions in the cake. I also found the measuring of ingredients worked well for the kids as they had mostly not used scales before and the importance of acurracy in their measuring which they did with great care. The idea of substitution and needing to maintain a balance of the overall ingredients and the different jobs they carried out with the other ingredients, (chemical reactions), to make the ckae successful.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That it is possible to make a yummy cake with beetroot and it even goes a pretty colour without having to use food colouring. Overall, the concept of experimentation and trying something new.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? The kids have a reasonable understanding of healthy food already as we get free fruit in schools for brainfood and and have healthy lunches made onsite. However I do think it helps to reinforce the message.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Realistically I think it is very hard for children to impact their family health as they don't have control of their diet which is dictated by their parents preferences. However, in families poen to suggestion and providing support some children did continue to experiment at home with vegetable ingredients.

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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? To have a lasting impact to improve whānau wellbeing it would need to be part of a broader and ongoing healthy eating programme with continual communication between school and home.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Family income, family preferences and the development of their own taste expectations due experiencing a limited palate and a high sugar and carbohydrate diet from a young age.

“A very engaging kit for the children, with very informative accompanying videos for the students and teacher to help them, and me, understand the chemical reactions taking place and the science and maths behind baking a cake.”

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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 To do ...

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The measuring scales are great. The students are getting a lot of use out of them. Fantastic for measuring. All the tinned foods are great. We will be using the tinned apples this week. The cupcake cases are the perfect size

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They are very happy to give new foods a try

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? All the children were keen and we combined it with the vegetables we are growing in our school garden

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? They will be more willing and keen to eat vegetables at home

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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? It is great for the children to be willing and keen to try healthy foods. They will then be more enthusiastic about eating vegetables at home.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? A few of my students bring a lot of processed packet foods to school.

“My students loved this kit! They loved baking and making the cupcakes. Working with food is always popular! For our first attempts, we worked together and carefully measured and mixed to make our first batch. Using lots of rich language and using lots of measuring vocabulary - which was new to many of the students. While the cakes were in the oven, we used the time as a language experience, After talking about it the students wrote about it their writing books. We are going to do our next batch later on this week. The children are very keen to replace the sugar with apples! We are also growing vegetables in our school garden. We are keen to try them in our next batch of vegetable cakes.”

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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 It was a new experience for a student to taste vegetable cake. Some students thought it was strange to add vegetables to cake.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The measuring scale as students learnt some maths.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The science behind baking.

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? To try out new ways of baking a cake.

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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? Giving other options for health meals.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Some families have financial issues in getting fresh fruits and veggies due to increase in cost of living.

“My students have enjoyed this kit. The students were surprised that we could use different vegetables in their cakes. They had many questions regarding what other types of vegetables they could use, and whether they use fresh vegetables. They were involved in a lot of critical thinking regarding different ways of baking. It was definitely an interesting and engaging lesson. Thanks a lot.”

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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 can't believe people eat this stuff!" on beetroot and "I told my mum about our cake and she said maybe we can try this when we make our banana cake next time."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Comparing sugar in foods and offering different ingredients they would never have thought of.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? To think a bit more about choices they make when choosing treats.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Medium. I think the newness of some of the ingredients to some students turned them off - but it's always good to be exposed.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Talk about food choices and start the discussion.

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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? Mini recipe cards to take home to try.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of living. Income.

“The Healthier Kids box was a great opportunity to plan a series of connected curriculum lessons to engage a group of high-needs learners. The value was in the ease of authentically connecting across lessons with a theme of reducing sugar. The actual baking and preparation was a highlight of the connected lessons as this group thrive in a hands-on learning experience. The act of substituting core ingredients like sugar for fruit and vegetables was met with some pushback from my group. They couldn't get past using chickpeas and beetroot in a baking recipe! They were very resistant and unfortunately were not swayed with the finished product. The only recipe that received their approval was when we substituted the sugar with apple. This didn't meet both objectives, as it didn't include 80grams of vegetables but at least it had less sugar! Overall a valuable and engaging series of activities.”

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Posted 1 year ago