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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 "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 2 years 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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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "Fun lessons, where we can be creative and discover other products to substitute." "We are learning how to add other ingredients into baking when we don't have what the recipe says."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The beetroot turned up some noses but, once added to the mixture turning it a reddish colour the students thought it looked cool. The taste test came with approval.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? No matter what you may have written in the recipe it can always be substituted and fats can be eliminated for healthy versions.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very effective as the students were able to experiment with healthy substitutes, getting consistencies right and enjoying the results.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? The students can take home new ideas in what to substitute items in the pantry used to bake with. They learned to be creative and take risks when swapping ingredients.

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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? Swapping high fat ingredients for healthy options.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? The school and students families believe in healthy options so, no barriers.

“Teaches scientific curiosity with many other curriculum areas.”

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Posted 2 years 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 in cakes!! What a yummy way to eat vegetables.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Having the vegetables - from their surprise at having the vegetables.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Experimenting with vegetables in a variety of contexts.

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? Using veges in cooking.

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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? Use of fruit and vegetables at home.

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

“The tamariki really enjoyed experimenting with using a range of vegetables in their cakes .”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "You can't even taste the peas" "I am going to try this at home"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The graphic organisers so the kids could keep track of their changes and their further testing.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They will think about the science behind baking, and also how to make easy swaps for more healthy options in their food.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was good. If I were to do it again, I would introduce it differently so that healthy eating had more of a focus rather than the cake making process.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? They had to take home their recipes and some of them made something similar with their families. Others tried to see if they could make cookies more healthy.

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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? Discussions at home and some of these kids do baking themselves so they can make changes as they go.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? finances and addiction to sugar. Time as most families buy processed food.

“We used it across two classes and had so much fun. The kids were able to explore the elements that make a cake and really started to understand that different components act differently when heat is applied. There were some very mushy cakes in the end.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Loved baking. Enjoyed experiments to see how kitchen ingredients react.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Baking, understanding the role of ingredients in baking and being able to make their own healthy choices.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The students can make healthy changes to their eating.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very, we talked about balance of the food pyramid and making healthy substitutions.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Understanding the role of ingredients in cooking and trying to make healthier substitutions.

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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? Making healthier substitutions at home.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Money, the cost of living.

“The concept was great, understanding the Kitchen Chemistry and then applying this to make changes.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them It was fun to see how we can use different foods to make something sweeter. It could teach my family how to make it at home

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Making food and being able to eat it

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? A positive hands on experience

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? The children really enjoyed it and were able to make, see and taste changes

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? They are able to teach them food substitutes that they may not have thought of

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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? Children created the recipes at home too.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of fruit and veges - they are more expensive than junk food.

“An amazing activity and resources - children loved the activity!”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them 1. A highlight from my learning is science because we learned about physical and chemical changes, that cooking is science and we even made cupcakes out of science. 2. A highlight of my learning is science because I'm learning new ways of doing things. I learned a new way of baking a cake. I am also learning new science words like physical and chemical reactions and matter.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The website with hints was very impactful. Beating the eggs before weighing them was a game changer for us. The coloured copies of the sheets were motivating for the students.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The cooking is science! The difference between physical and chemical changes.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very effected - weighing out 60g of sugar to share between 4 cupcakes was mind blowing for our classes. They definitley wanted to reduce the sugar content. They loved researcing altrenatives for sugar and fats.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? I had numerous parents contact me to say their child loved the science and that they tried the baking at home. 2 parents were amazed that their child tried and enjoyed the vegetable cakes.

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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? A cost comparision would be useful - if healthier was cheaper this could improve whānau wellbeing.

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

“The resources and teaching material were helpful. The biggest issue for us was the extra cost for ingredients. For the 3 classes (95 students) at our school, we spent an extra $100 on ingredients. Mostly on eggs, avocadoes and butter. Information about other fats to use would have been useful - I only thought at the end about substituting butter for other fats not just vegetable fats. Other fats would certainly have been cheaper and healthier.”

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Posted 2 years ago