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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 "It was so much fun, working out the different measurements and working with our friends to problem solve and be creative was so cool" and " We thought it was going to be disgusting but the beetroot and apple was really yum!"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The poster for explaining to the whole class was very useful. Also the little sheets that the students could do their own measurements on was great.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They learnt about the dry and wet ingredients and what to replace each with. So even now, they can talk confidently in our cooking classes about how egg, liquids and wet and dry ingredients can effect the cooking process.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? The conversations around how much sugar was needed and what healthier options could replace it were GOLD.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Sugar content in foods. How baking powder effects the taste. What vege's are good replacements for sugar.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 80%

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? We extended the kit into our Food Tech programme and let the students explore a number of different options. It was great to have this kit as the base and resources to a very full programme.

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

“This was such a cool activity. The learning that went in behind it was really thorough and interesting and the students were so engaged throughout the whole process. The students were so impressed that the end results actually tasted VERY GOOD.”

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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 that you can replace sugar with vegetables and I will try it in the future" "I learnt that you can put veges in a cupcake for a healthy alternative"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The ideas and the unit plans, easy access to others who had tried it and their handy comments, having the cans and weighing machine made available.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Learning about the science behind bubbles in cooking, how different ingredients can be used to make food healthy and tasty

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? As part of a whole healthy eating unit all students are aware of making better choices around eating and how to make good choices for changing sugar based baking.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? As above

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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? Discussion on what could go into lunches, portion sizes of the food groups

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Not being the shoppers family customs traditions and beliefs.

“This was an awesome kit that all of my students were totally engaged in. Some success some not so much. Definitely something I will do again in the future.”

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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 cool to try different re ipes and see which I gradients bubbled better. I like measuring and baking. It tasted yuck though.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Scale, the printed trial recording sheets...these took it into science through observational iteration.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That they can bake. They learned how to follow a recipe and to try different ingredients. Kids are keen to try baking at home. They can see how healthy ingredients still taste good.

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

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

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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? See above. Kids keen to try different vegetables include them in their meals.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost, some don't have fridges, access to cooking materials eg cake tins frypans.

“Such a great kit. We enjoyed trialing different ingredients and also brought veges from home. Corn wasn't a favourite. Beetroot and carrot were our favorites. Love having some reusable materials for more baking and science.”

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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 "We didn't know that it could taste good with no sugar." "We want to try other fruit and veges in ours so we will do it at home."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The posters

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Food doesn't need to be high in sugar to taste good!

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Students are inspired to cook at home

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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? Students can explain to their family that food can taste good even when their is less sugar. Lots of opportunities to connect with home.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? n/a

“An awesome way to start conversations about sugar content and healthy food choices. The class loved creating their recipes. There was much anticipation for the final product, and taste testing and then scoring the cakes was very engaging. You will need to top up some of the ingredients and work out the quantities you need depending on the recipes the children create. You will need to source your own muffin tins. The larger the muffin tin the better. In my class each child mixed ingredients in their own paper cup. The unit was fairly complicated for Year 3/4 and you did need to guide it heavily as the teacher but it was worth doing.”

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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 Student's made cupcakes for their mums for Mothers day. "You don't just have to cook with unhealthy stuff, you can add anything you want". "The banana and honey ones were delicious".

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The recipe card template was really helpful.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That we can adapt recpies - ingredients and quantities, and don't have to stick to what is written. We can experiment and make more changes. Somethings don't taste you think they will once they are cooked.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Was good to promote use of different ingredients. Student's still like the sweet, but can see benefits of using other ingredients. We also used the concept of adding different ingredients to our food and made bread for Matariki and added Kawakawa to it.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Creativity and adaptation of recipe's. Having ago, and failing sometimes, but making changes to address what they didn't like.

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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? Giving copies of recpies that successfully use alternative ingredients for the kids to take home and try with their families.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Money, junk food is cheaper. Some people think they are 'loving' their kids by buying them junk - keeping them happy. .

“I used the process with 3 different classes and was fortunate to have a cooking classroom. The basic recipe was really for the students to comprehend and it was also good how you could mix in any order. We had boys go home who remembered the recipe and make cupcakes for their mums for Mother's day. There was also a good link someone had shared that explained what was happening in the oven (was with a cookie, but same idea). Some students were reluctant to try their new creations, however, we cut up the cupcakes and shared them around so they tried heaps of them. We ran out of time to alter the recipe again and make them more successful as the texture wasn't the greatest. Replacing egg with apples was successful and we have catered for a couple of class events making the cupcakes - we used the concept of equal weights and increased the ingredients.”

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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 it' and 'the scales were fun'

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The scales- not many kids had seen such thin scales before haha!

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? healthy eating

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? hoping they will talk at home about it

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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? chat at home

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

“This was a great kit to use with my remedial math kids. They love to cook and learn best through hands on, practical math opportunities. This kit had all of that!”

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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 that you could include vegetables in cake. It tasted better than I expected." "I want to try more recipes like this at home."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? I am sure that students will now have a clear memory of baking using ingredients that they might not normally consider.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? There is always a healthier option to consider when it comes to the food they consume.

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Some students were keen to trial the recipes at home and I feel as if they will keep looking for healthier alternatives

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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? Children have some tools to go home and question certain food options.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost. Education of parents

“What a great kit! Easy to follow and clear links to Healthy Active Living. Students were engaged and some minds may be changed with respect to cooking "sweet things" and 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 didn't think you could use veges in baking but you couldn't taste them at all!' 'Do you think this is what mum does when she bakes at home?' 'I think veges add a better texture to the baking'.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Canned foods - that canned food can be as healthy and useful as 'real' vegetables

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Experimentation - sometimes things work and taste better than others

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Great conversations around 5+ a day and what that might look like

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Simple recipes, canned fruit and veges can be used to add health benefits and taste nice

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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? We had students bring in 'vegetable and fruit' based baking for shared kai

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Easier for ākonga to make their lunch with packaged food, cost of fresh food at the moment

“This was the best school kit to launch! The vegetables really added impact when I introduced the kit to the class and asked what they thought it was about! Heaps of learning and discussion and lots of awesome combinations to then adapt and try themselves.”

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