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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 fun making a different kind of cake. I wish I had got to make my own cake!

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Voucher

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? baking can be versatile

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Gave them new options to explore

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? They could suggest new ideas to their parents

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What barriers do your students face in accessing healthy eating?

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 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? Communication with parents around the kit to take ideas back home.

“This was fun, but I underestimated how difficult it was to make it work in the classroom - i.e. 20 kids to work with and didn't all get sufficient turns as we didn't have the funds or goods to make several cakes.”

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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 learnt how to do experiments with vegetables and baking. It was really fun doing it together with our groups.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? scales- for ease and consistency of measurement. Tins of veges-ease of options for making cake with. Voucher to buy eggs etc

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Lots of interest in baking, science, experimenting in baking. Thinking how to get more vegetables into diet.

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 made the vege cakes at home. Lots of students talked about the vege cakes with their families

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What barriers do your students face in accessing healthy eating?

What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 50%

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 excitement of the kids telling whanau about their experiments, and opening their minds to new ideas.

“A very generous kit with nearly everything you need for success. The kids loved making the cakes and inventing their own recipes-so much rich learning in maths, science, english as well as all the social and self management skills.”

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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 Some of my cakes tasted delicious, but some were too hard. They didn't have enough bubbles.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Learning about the substitutes.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Improved knowledge about chemical and physical changes.

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Reducing sugar intake and using natural sugars instead.

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What barriers do your students face in accessing healthy eating?

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? Learning to reduce sugar intake.

“This is fantastic kit. So much learning involved, engaging and heaps of fun.”

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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 learnt that healthy ingredients can be tasty. It was fun to create a healthy vege cake.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The food items.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Healthy eating. Exploration.

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? They can share recipes at home.

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What barriers do your students face in accessing healthy eating?

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? Inquiry - What can we do at home to ensure we have a healthy meal/food?

“This was a great experience to have some hands-on learning as well as integrating other subjects such as measurement, science and technology. Worthwhile. Thank you.”

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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 that's what those measurement signs are for! ' When learning how to pour mls and measure grams. 'I wonder how many other coloured fruits or vegetables you could use to make different coloured cakes.'

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Scales, ingredients

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That you only need 4 ingredients to make a cake and each of these have a special purpose.

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Knowledge of how to make these cakes and add them to the lunchbox menu.

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What barriers do your students face in accessing healthy eating?

What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 40%

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? Recipes could be taken home

“My class loved altering the control recipe- once the Science experiments were complete it gave a whole new understanding to cooking. This also worked in perfectly with the measurement strand we were learning about.”

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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 understand what a chemical change is"; "I like baking and trying the substitute ingredients, some were yummy and others weren't".

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Being able to buy the ingredients so that students were able to experiment.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Healthy eating, and understanding the science of chemical reactions.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? The students were able to explain that some ingredients would be able to be replaced and keep the some structure etc as the control cakes.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Being more experimental at trying new foods.

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What barriers do your students face in accessing healthy eating?

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? Breaking barriers about expectations, e.g. will only try foods with sugar for taste etc.

“Great interactive kit with practical "hands on" tasks. Students were engaged and enjoyed creating their own recipes. They understood the science concepts behind the tasks.”

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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 It was interesting to find out how the different foods would make the cake taste. We got to do a lot of baking and practise measuring.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Not sure.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The time they made a vegetable cake!

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Children were quite shocked with how much sugar went into some baking.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? To try something similar at home and experiment with healthy swaps in baking.

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What barriers do your students face in accessing healthy eating?

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? Sharing the learning with whānau so they could try something similar at home.

“This was a great kit to show tamariki that things they thought they wouldn't like can taste yummy in different forms. Fun for them to get to do some baking too.”

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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 can't believe adults can hide vegetables in cakes and other baking". "It was cool learning about the different ways to make healthy food yum"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? I think they were impactful for different students.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That baking can be healthy.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Students know about healthy eating but the idea of making 'yummy" food healthy was a great learning curve for many of the students.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Being able to add seasonal fruit and veges into meals/baking/home cooking to make it go further.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What barriers do your students face in accessing healthy eating?

What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 40%

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? students were keen to try their new learning out at home and share with whānau.

“This was great fun.”

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Posted 2 years ago