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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 Angela: When you use vegetables it can make food taste good as an ingredient, not just yuck. Sam: I learned to work in a team. I learnt that I can bake things muself not just buy them from countdown, baking it myself is better. Tim: it was an example of an experiment and I like experiments Damon: I was nervous about what they might taste like using less vegetables and reducing sugar

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The recipe, the poster to display, the inclusion of the ingredients and the gift card. Although it didn't entirely cover the cost of eggs, it was nice to get something.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Using vegetables is way to reduce sugar. Using beetroot and kūmara changed the colour the of the cupcakes. We had lots of fun measuring and making our own recipe. Kūmara can be used for cooking in sweet things not just savoury. It was a fun science project.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? We were able to use less sugar in a recipe by including vegetables. Using less sugar you can still make tasty food.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Shared their learning that they were making cupcakes with less sugar, and that food with less sugar works. Excited to share learning at home, that they were making 'cupcakes with Kūmara'. Vegetables can be put into sweet things.

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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? vouchers to parents?

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Busy parents who don't have time to cook.

“This was a great experience for our class. We had been working on Kūmara for our inquiry learning so it was a fun way to add cross-curricular learning with both maths and science. Awesome to do something hands-on and a bit different. I really appreciated the resources and feedback from other teachers when I planned this work. Making the recipe myself in advance was quite helpful as it helped me to understand the amounts. Additionally, it gave the learners an opportunity to collaborate in different ways.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them DF - I think that they were easy lessons to follow and they helped with learning substitutes for lots of foods at home. BA - It was fun and I enjoyed making the cakes. I learned that you can replace eggs with something like a fruit and I didn't know that you could make gluten free cakes.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The recipe reviews and planning sheets,

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That we can use foods other than sugar to add flavour to baking.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? A great starting point - very effective.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? To reduce sugar when baking.

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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? Tuakana teina - students teaching their families the recipes they created.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of living - chip packets etc are a cheap and easy alternative for busy parents.

“The students found this a great learning experience. They were inspired to try options that had a range of vegetables and all agreed that their cupcakes tasted delicious. We also made them gluten and dairy-free to cater for class needs - this didn't have and adverse effects on the recipes. Mathematically, substituting the ingredients wasn't much of a challenge. The bigger challenge was in the scientific aspects of the kit - especially with creating bubble strategies and looking for ingredients that would promote rising. I will happily use this kit again!”

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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 loved getting to bake it was lots of fun. I enjoyed learning how to use the scales to measure each ingredient carefully.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Challenging kids mindsets about substituting certain ingredients for healthier things and exploring perfecting the recipe

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Challenging their thinking behind what they can use in the kitchen, more confident in using the scales to measure

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was great to reinforce our previous healthy foods focus and we talked about the food groups

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Making healthier choices and provide an opportunity for children to try it at home with whānau

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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? Provide a resource for home

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

“It is a great kit to get kids thinking about recipes, science and maths all in one! Problem solving and tinkering plus building skills of working together in a group to whip up a masterpiece. Exploration and lots of fun!”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I really understand ratios now". "It really made me think about the sugar I eat". "I didn't know drinks contained that much sugar." "Our sugarless cake was really yummy!"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The recipe card that showed the breakdown of ingredients and purpose for students to complete.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Healthy choices for eating and some great real life maths learning.

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Making healthy choices and baking as a family can be fun.

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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? Students sharing the healthy eating learning they gained with their families and trying our recipes at home.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of food at the moment, especially fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables.

“We loved this school kit. We got so much learning out of it - Maths (measurement, ratio, etc) and Science (changing state). The students were able to predict, experiment and then refine and although most first cakes failed, their final cakes were yummy, which really showed their evaluation skills and reworking. Every child designed and made a recipe card at the end to keep, and we made a class online cookbook using Google Slides. Also, looking at how much sugar is in food was very powerful.”

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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 good to see different things in a cake. The Cake was nice

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The Beetroot as many students had not used it before

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Different foods that can go into different foods

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was ok but could have done with more promotional equipment

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? they can show different foods into cake. Having said that recipe cards would have been good. I created some to take home

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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? Different recipe cards that students could take home, Recipe`s students could write about

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

“The cake mix was easy to make and the students enjoyed making it”

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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 was inspired and even had a go at making the cake at home" -Dawn "It was a good practical experience to learn the steps involved with baking- now I feel more confident baking at home" - Olivia

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Baking

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? "I was inspired and even had a go at making the cake at home" - Dawn

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Yes- it made us think about bakeries and cake shops and if they use healthy alternatives in their cakes etc

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? "We even went home and told our whānau that we used chickpeas in a cake- who knew!"

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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? Invite whānau into class to support lessons or advertise recipes in panui!

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? "As long if you have the ingredients"

“The Vegecake Kit sparked though about healthy eating and the tamariki enjoyed baking to develop measuring skills etc”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "When we first started science this term I'm sad to say I was quite disappointed, I never thought science was really my thing and I never particularly enjoyed it, but the muffin baking was an amazing introduction to how fun science can really be. Now here I am with a great idea for Science Fair, and a head that looks forward to science every week!" HS Year 7. "I really liked the cake science we did this tem. Not just because I got to eat cake but also because I learnt so much about making cakes healthier and the science behind it." AD Year 8

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The review sheets and planning sheets were really useful.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They will look forward to science more than before, and for many it has opened up the idea that food tech is science in action.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? This was mixed as some of the 'healthy cakes' were pretty disgusting to eat...

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Hopefully they have learned that there are good alternative to sugar and fats.

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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? Better education in terms of the importance of different food groups.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Willingness to try 'healthy' foods.

“Students really enjoyed this kit, were fully engaged and disappointed when it came to an end! It was useful in inspiring several independent science fair investigations using food substitutions.”

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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 never knew what the different ingredients were for, I learnt about how the butter coats the sugar granules when you cream them and that helps trap the air to make the cake rise." Using veges was a good idea but I'm not sure I liked them that much. I guess I need to get used to them.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? scales, evaluation forms

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? thinking about what they're eating, discovering and uinderstanding the science in baking.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Pretty good! If I'd had a kitchen we might have gone deeper and kept going.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Awareness of sugar and reducing of replacing. Alternatives to fats.

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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? Replacing chippie packets with a home backed muffin that has fibre and fruit/veges in it.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? When a single parent doesn't own a car and doesn't want to drag their kids out on a bus to get groceries, a trip to the dairy is a survivable option. Be nice to see the odd muffin sent to school woth tjhe sachet of 'add boiling water' soup/noodles.

“We did this once per week over a few weeks. Great fun, you do need to have some baking experience, and equipment. It was pretty crazy with 25 in groups of 3-4 in a normal classroom but the kids loved it so it was worth the effort. We used to kick off science fair so we emphasised the repeatability, variables, testing, following the scientific method, evaluating etc. Def recommend, advise you to resources yourself with a whizz stick to blend the apple, beetroot etc. Big thanks to School Kit for the resources and taking us out of our comfort zone. The supporting paper work and Evaluation Forms were great as well. You can really extend this, and a bit of research first into things such as egg alternatives is useful to extend curiosity.”

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