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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 did not thing this would taste like this! It is extremely different to what I thought and I will use this in our family cooking with Mum.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Discussion around what you usually use these ingrediants for and how we will trial them in different ways.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? A taste sensation and to risk some tastes and it is not always what you think.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? I have a lot for corn eaters!

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Discussion around not everything needs to be sweet when baking.

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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? Perhaps little take home recipes to try

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Knowledge their whanau have

“Predictions are not always what they seem... lots of laughing with this kit, use of all the senses and a wonderful tasting experience.”

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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 "At first we thought it would taste bad but it didn't taste too bad you couldn't really taste the apple". "I enjoyed learning a way to put disgusting vegetables into a cup cake, then at the end turning out so yummy"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Scales - very handy for practising exact measurement. Base recipe planning sheets.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Hopefully that veges are not all bad and can be used to reduce the amount of sugar needed in baking.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Good - was only our food tech students though might look to extend to whole classroom.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Increase knowledge of substitute healthier ingredients.

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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 addictive properties of sugar and how we can reduce intake.

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

“We did this with our year 8 students are part of food technology. Week 1 was making the control, experimenting with how to get bubbles and watching the YouTube clips on sugar. We also gave the students tasters of the pureed veges so they could make an informed choice about substitute ingredients for the following week. We were shocked at how reluctant some students were towards trying the different vegetable purees and reluctance to include as substitute ingredients. The following week the students made their vege substitute cakes and most were pleasantly surprised. Only recommendation would be more information about the properties of the vege substitutes. Thanks School Kit and sponsors 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 I let the groups work together on the cooking and just helped them when they needed it so the interactions were interesting. I also posted pics and videos on out class Dojo for parents who said their kids came home and told them about what they had done. A few asked for recipes. The judging of the cakes was interesting as they all tried to be kind and constructive.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? I think the ingredients...we didn't really use the cards as they were a bit above where my class were at. I adapted them to fit my learning intentions.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Pricing out their recipe was interesting because they made comments about how expensive things were (eggs, kumara etc)To read the recipe before cooking and to tick off the ingredients as you put them in. (One group left out the sugar and put in salt by accident !!!)

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? I think it was good to see how different ingredients can still make a delicious cake. The chickpeas were the substitute for flour in the recipe they chose so we talked about being gluten-free.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? We live in Dargaville and so kumara is a common vegetable and they all went home with the recipe.

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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? Not sure but many kids commented that their mum or dad didn't know you could make a cake out of corn or pumpkin.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Probably cost and variety.

“We used this kit as a part of a science unit on Chemistry in the Kitchen. After doing an experiment on what makes a cake rise we split into 6 groups and each group was given a mystery ingredient (I added pumpkin and kumara as well). Each group had to research a recipe and write all the ingredients. They then went onto the Countdown site and priced up their ingredients as a math activity. Each group got the chance to make their cake and got to judge each cake. (The Principal got to try each one and he fed back to each group about his scores.) It was a valuable kit and the kids had so much fun.”

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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 Can we do writing on something like this again? We could do the same thing with smoothies.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Hands on real life project based learning, baking and then sampling the creations. Unpacking the box when it first arrived was also exciting!

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The science of cooking and how healthy eating can involve treats.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very, not only in the classroom but many students took the learning home.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? As mentioned above the students were motivated to go home and put their learning into practice. We are thinking of involving a similar challenge in our upcoming Ag day.

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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? With the cost of living at present, the students could see how they could contribute to baking at home. A way they could contribute to helping out at home.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? The current cost of fresh fruit, vegetables and fresh food. The fast pace living where packaged lunchbox snacks are timesaving and convient.

“We have been looking at project-based learning across the curriculum to enhance motivation and enthusiasm with a focus on boys writing. The Make the Vegetable Cake inspired our learners and gave them agency over the type of cake they designed and the substations choosen.”

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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 grating beetroot. It was weird putting it into a cake - it made it taste a little bit like dirt! My favourite bit was eating the cake, it was just like anormal cake. Our cake had chickpeas in it - it was a bit like eating hummus but nicer.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Lesson plan ideas and poster - scales

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? We will be baking more and jiggling the ingredients

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Everyone was talking about using veg in a different way

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Many children went and discussed the lessons with their family

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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? Using unusual ingredients

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

“In a delightful classroom activity, our class replaced traditional cake ingredients with vegetables to create surprisingly tasty treats. Their inventive combinations, like carrot-sweetened cakes and zucchini-infused butter, yielded moist and flavorful results. With vegetable-based icings and decorations, they not only honed their culinary skills but also embraced healthier eating habits in an engaging way. The smiles of enjoyment on everyone's faces made it clear that this innovative bake-off was a resounding success.”

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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 enjoyed learning about the caramelisation that happens when the cakes cook and how that tells us when the cakes are ready." "I liked the control cakes the best but i enjoyed experimenting with adding vegetables even though they didn't turn out as good.'

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The testing papers - rating each aspect of the cakes.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Fair -testing and the importance of careful weighing

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? The idea was good but most children prefered the full sugar muffins. It made them aware of the importance of eating less sugar.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? That too much sugar is bad for our healths and that we need to find low 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? By getting the children to educate their families. Recipes being shared and cheaper vegetables and baking products.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Money and bad eating habits.

“This was a great resource that the children found very engaging. They learned lots of valuable skills like weighing, substituting, working as a group, testing, reflecting, modifying, and improving. They enjoyed experimenting and exploring their new 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 am excited to try adding the vegetables and see what changes we need to make because of this.” “Can we have this much fun in science all the time - I feel like a wizard making a new potion”. “ When you add the vegetable, it is important to make sure that you balance the wet and dry ingredients so that the recipe works”.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The link to maths - measurement, and having to read and adjust ingredients based on these. The scales sent were a great help with this! All the added extras that supported the kit - for example, the chemistry of cake poster and recipe design cards.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That learning can be fun!! Math is an essential and integral skill. Healthy eating can be delicious. Collaboration is important.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It made children realise the importance of vegetables in our diet and how they can be integrated into our diet. They were initially disgusted before making the cakes to think that corn and beetroot could be part of a cake, but when they tried it, we’re so surprised that it tasted good. So now, all are more willing to try new things.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? The importance of a balanced diet. Vegetables are versatile and adding healthy components to food can be delicious! Sugar can be reduced in food to make it healthier.

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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? Learning about healthy eating and applying this to future food choices.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of produce. Parental knowledge.

“A fun kit that got children, thinking a lot about the science behind cooking, and the adjustments that needed to be made when substituting ingredients. It really taught the skills of measurement, observation and investigation. Alongside all this it promoted the inclusion of healthy eating. The children were very surprised at how good vegetables in a cake could taste!!”

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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 realise that the beetroot would actually make the cake taste nice, because I don't usually like beetroot.*It's really good that we can use fruit and veges instead of white sugar, because my dad says I eat too much sugar.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The poster - helped explain the functions of each ingrredient in the cake. The scales made measuring accurately easy to do. Providing the tins with some swap out options was a great starting point for their own research. The recipe cards helped them when designing their own cake #2 and #3.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Science is fun, especially doing chemical change when you can produce something edible at the end. You don't need white sugar to produce something yummy.

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Many of my students wanted to go home and experiment with different fruit and vege combinations and make their own cakes.

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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 can try out their own ideas at home.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? None really, they all had access to fruit and veges at home.

“Wow! This is a fantastic kit. My class loved it from the moment I opened the box. There was so much learning that took place. Some of the learning that took place for my Year 4 students: * using scales and measuring accurately * learning what 60grams looked like * understanding temperatures on the oven * researching what would make a good swap out ingredient so that the cake had less sugar and was healthier * how to review a recipe and make changes for the next cake * working in a team, negotiating about what ingredients to use It was a great follow on from our Science inquiry where we had been looking at chemical and physical changes. I would definitely do this again.”

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