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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 Students enjoyed discussing with each other their preferred options of what makes a good vegetable cake.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Students experimenting with what happens when there is too much sugar.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Trying different foods like chickpeas. Seeing the impact of using less sugar

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very effective. Tied in well with our PE and health unit

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Reduced sugar, healthier options

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 90%

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? Introducing healthier options to whanau, encouraging whanau to cook together

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of living, accessing fresh foods that are affordable

“Our year6’s have absolutely loved this kit. They were highly engaged and enjoyed the process”

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Posted 2 years ago

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 didn't know you could put vegetables in a cake and it still tastes nice. It was really fun doing all the eating and taste testing on the food we made. We got to do lots of fun cooking with this kit.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The tins of peas, beetroot and chickpeas and the scales so we didnt have to buy them

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That you can add and subsitute things in recepies to make things better and healthier - and sneak in vegies!

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? They can pass on their learning with their families and we made zucchini brownie after to show how good that is too

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 30%

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? Kids learnt that you can use tinned food and it is actually ok - you don't have to use fresh and that you can even make substitutions on recipies

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of food in general. Too expensive to eat healthy in todays supermarkets. Fresh fruit and vegies should be so cheap in NZ because we have so much growing space and yet it is all so so out of reach for so many.

“This kit was well-resourced with everything you need to do the experiments. We thought it was great having the scales to use to measure things out. The choice of ingredients at first was worrying but turned out to be really fun as we started the project!”

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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 Learned they have to be precise and why following steps are important

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The recipe steps

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They will remember this for a long time as they had lots of fun

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very effective, Made the children think

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Learn what is in their food

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 100%

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? Take things home

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

“My students were engaged and enjoyed the learning involved.”

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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 am going to make these cakes at home. You can't taste the veges! Reducing sugar is a good thing.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Review sheet - because there were lots of discussions and justifications about the ratings given. The Chemisty of Change poster - because students were independently using it throughout the unit to clarify their understandings. Digital scales - because st

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That you can reduce sugars, use a healthy substitute ingredient, without compromising taste or texture.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very effective. The seed has been planted and now they know something they never realised before.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? reduce sugars, replace sugars with alternatives

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 30%

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? try alternatives with other foods e.g bread. Affordable healthy meal planning

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Knowledge that healthy food choices doesn't have to mean that its going to taste terrible.

“Kia ora! This unit had the whole class engaged and interacting with each other and their learning. Some loved the maths aspects, others shone in the digital activities. The range of cross-curricular activities scaffolded my learner's knowledge and understanding. No one was keen to add vegies to their cake. They were all surprised that the substitute cake tasted good. The review sessions were always fun, they got right into rating their cake. I enjoyed listening to their conversations about the chemical changes that happened, their faces when they noticed the air pockets / bubbles, malliard reaction etc.”

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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 left the school can't do this

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? they loved using the weighing scales

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? to be able to have healthier food in their lunchboxes

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? hopefully to encourage them to put less unhealthy foods in lunch boxes.

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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? they will take this back into the classroom

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

“Some tasted great, others were a little too vegetably. Carrot will always be a class favourite.”

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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 think that vegetables could taste this good" "I'm going to try this at home with my whanau"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The recipe cards really helped put the activity and focus into context

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The idea that sugar is a treat but not necessary to make something enjoyable to eat

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? Vegetables can be hidden in yummy things!

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 90%

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? To encourage students to have a say in what they eat

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

“What a fantastic way to engage students in a variety of cross-curricular focuses. We loved doing this throughout 5 sessions. Each session consisted of a discussion, planning and then creating our cakes using the information that was collected. There were some amazing, weird and wacky cakes created. What a blast!”

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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 trying new food that I normally don't eat' and 'I didn't realise these foods were going to taste nice together.'

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Making their own and being creative

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Baking skills

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

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

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 90%

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? Would've been good to get them into help or try out their new recipes

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

“Kia ora, Our tamariki enjoyed creating their vegetable cake and we had some surprising outcomes. They were quite surprised that the substitutes were quite delicious. Beetroot was a favourite!”

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Posted 2 years ago

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 "This is lots of fun" "Wow I didn't know you could do that!"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Scales and the students learning how to use them and understanding the importance of weighing their items.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Incorporating healthy food into their cooking / baking in future.

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Share their cooking / recipes with their whanau.

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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 their new found knowledge with their whanau.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Low income whanau.

“Great to get the kids really thinking about the mahi they are doing and what goes into the kai we eat.”

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Posted 2 years ago