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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 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%

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? 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. We taught this kit over three classes - The biggest issue for us was the extra cost for ingredients (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

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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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 inspired were your students to try healthy alternatives to backing after using the kit?

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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

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I didn't know that other vegetables could taste good in a cake. I have only had carrot cake. Eating vegetables are important to stay healthy.portant

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the process of experimenting as it gave students the opportunity to try different vegetables and tastes they probably would not have had before.. Making links between food and health and this had a positive impact on the morning brain food snacks.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? To try more vegetables and how they can incorporate healthy foods into their daily diet.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very in that it gave a different perspective.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? The have been making some of the cakes at home and the morning snacks contain more vegetables.

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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 take home ideas. Found making the as cake in a cup enabled more experimentation.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost and knowledge on how to present healthy foods in a palatable way. Time poor.

“Firstly, the students had to decide what base cake they would use to make the cakes. They enjoyed experimenting with different vegetables in a cake. It encouraged them to think about flavours, texture and tasting vegetables for sweetness before putting them into a cake. The investigation enabled opportunities for maths, literacy, group work and science. The tasting and comment sheets for each cake were surprising.”

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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 "You don't even notice the vegetables in some of the cakes which is good. I might try to trick my family and not tell them that my cake is healthy." "I didn't know that cakes had so much sugar in them, it is quite a lot really. This is why mum says cake

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The hands on activities were the ones that the children loved the most. Blowing the balloon up without blowing in it, the recipe cards and the ingredients for baking. We had some big discussions around measuring and accuracy using the scales.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Accurate measuring skills, an understanding that there is reasoning and accuracy behind ingredients and a knowledge of how to make food healthier.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? The kit did a good job at this, however some students cakes were still not super successful even on the 2nd and 3rd bake and so they were less keen to keep baking using sugar alternatives than those who had greater success.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Reducing the sugar content in food, baking and cooking from scratch

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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? We posted about our baking on Seesaw as we went in the hope that parents would have discussions with students about their learning and what they had discovered.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost, parent time to cook

“What fun we had creating our own recipes and learning about the science and maths of cake making. There was a lot of trial and error, discussion and changes to ideas. I was surprised that in my class I had either competent little bakers or students who had never baked before. The skills were varied but everyone was able to contribute to our learning.”

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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 liked learning about the food - I really enjoyed making the cake I thought it would be awful but it was really yummy

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Making the cake

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Some insight about food health

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very good and ran alongside another food nutrition programme

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? That vege can go in a cake

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

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“It was easy to follow - the students enjoyed leaning about the food.”

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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 " oh we can use avocado instead of oil and butter" "cakes do rise without baking powder" " so many healthier options can be used "

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The research on food substitute with vegetables was the part students found most interesting as they were suprised to know the things we can use to put in our cakes instead of sugar, flour, egg and fat.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? It is a life skill learning for learners. This activity will encourage them to make better choices.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Extremely effective since our school is a health promoting school it went very well with our school policy.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? choosing healthier options while cooking.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 70%

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? The students shared their learning with other teachers and their Whanau. Shared their baked cakes with teacher to write their review as well.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Not aware of the alternatives of sugar, fat and flour.

“Learners and the School Staff enjoyed the learning process. The science behind cake making and the food technology aspect was very much appreciated. It definitely made the learners critically think about what they were putting into their bodies. The research the learners did to substitute the fat, sugar, egg and flour was very encouraging and light bulb moments for them.”

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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 E - "I'd like to give it another go because none of us used a bubble strategy and they were all flat". C - "We did some research into substitutes and found the vegetables we could best replace for sugar. Because all of our cupcakes were flat, ours won the

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The base recipe guide was easy for my Year 5/6 students to understand what to use in the recipe design.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They enjoyed the questioning and inferring about what happened in the reactions in each cake. They will take away the science focus of changing variables.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Unsure - it would certainly open up conversations about for ingredients can be substituted

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Open up conversations at home about foods and their substitutes.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 70%

How keen were your students to try healthy alternatives in baking at the start of this kit?

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How inspired were your students to try healthy alternatives to backing after using the kit?

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? It would be great to have a second round of this to explore further. I see this improving whanau wellbeing by opening up the conversation at home

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Time and organisation at home - much easier to buy convenience foods or packaged foods. Our families all work and many run farms on top of, so easy meal ideas are necessary. Whanau knowledge into healthy options is also a barrier.

“We did this as a class over a very messy last week of school. Kids were in and out which was disruptive and meant the students couldn't all engage with each step of the process. They all enjoyed the last part of making the cakes.”

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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'd never had chickpeas before, but now I'm going to make sure we get some at home. They are heap and nutritious." "I can't wait to try this at hoe in the holdays. Who knew thre was such a thing as healthy cake?

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The whole kit was impactful but especially the

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? It reiterated our healthy, nutritious food focus this term

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Higly effective. Even the 'fussiest' eaters were tempted to get invovled and try everything.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Most studens commeted that they were going to repeat this 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? .

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

“Another excellent Kit from School Kit. students were highly engaged.”

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