“Loving our Walk the Length of NZ school kit! We love the great Maths we are getting out of it, the kids are loving it and can’t wait to plan our day. This is my class measuring things around the school in ‘their’ steps! Comparing their average step length and the poster we edited for them to find the distances between the towns in nz using google maps. Looking forward to comparing the pedometers!”
“Another teacher at our school had also registered for this kit. We shared some of the walking tasks and helped to raise walking levels. We are lucky to have a cycle track at our school and children keen to use it.
We were able to count steps in various ways and children challenged each other over their break times. Great to get such buy-in from them. Thanks, school kit.”
We want to collate the huge number of steps from accross NZ, please share your final number with us.
“Absolutely loved this kit. Our year 7 &; 8s loved tracking their movements and ended up being fiercely competitive!. So great to see everyone up and moving - the less able were encouraged to be involved as well - which was great! They soon realised that every step counted. We were able to use it in our Maths programme with real-life data that they understood. One student was so committed she watched TV at night while walking on the spot :P”
We want to collate the huge number of steps from accross NZ, please share your final number with us.
850,023 - we struggled but still made good progress!
“Great kit - kids thoroughly enjoyed all the different tools and the ideas. They loved all the different measuring tools, pedometers - different to their apple watches! Loved teaching measurement in a realistic and fun way! Really refreshing and relevant. Thanks school kit. A very rich, engaging unit!”
“Room 18 have had fun comparing and measuring our strides in preparation for 'Walk the length of New Zealand'. Thank you School Kit, some great discussions around how our height may affect our stride length, approximate lengths of the basketball court/field and classroom and how many people we need to crack the challenge in a day!”
We want to collate the huge number of steps from accross NZ, please share your final number with us.
3,275,925
“This was an awesome resource - tēnā rawa atu koutou School Kit! We were able to link so many different learning areas into this resource - Te Reo, Maths, Literacy, Science, Geography, such a rich task for the students to dive into. We used Google Forms to collect steps, a shared Google Sheet to collate our information, linked with families and friends through Seesaw and Google Classroom, and had a great time testing out the various pedometers given to us.”
We want to collate the huge number of steps from accross NZ, please share your final number with us.
194, 550.
“Apologies for the late review. This unit was a perfect fit for our big idea for the term - 'Kaitiakitanga',
Sustainability and what we are doing and need to do more of to look after not only Aotearoa, the World as well. We recorded our steps as part of our Athletics day trainings and also the steps we clocked up
on a average day at school. The maths involved was wide and varied - we looked at the difference
in the recorded steps on the pedometers, to phones and even Strava - an online training app. We used
graphs to chart our progress and also look at what we do in our school time. Perseverance,
Communication, and Recording data - were all skills used as part of this kit. We would have liked to
walk more and achieve the length of NZ - but we did not quite make it. As part of our build up to
our upcoming school camps - we walked the local hills. This for some was the longest they had ever
walked - up to 16,000 steps. This kit fitted beautifully in a thematic sense to so much of what we
were already doing. THANK YOU SO MUCH SCHOOL KIT FOR ALLOWING US TO BE A PART OF THIS
AWESOME RESOURCE.”
“We're gearing up to walk the length of New Zealand - the kids are so excited!
We've measured the length of our steps and worked out that the kids take 1400 to 1500 steps in a kilometre.
Today we checked out the step counters - the most popular was the watch style, followed by the one you put on your waist band, then the large silver manual clicker and lucky last was the stitch counter. I have to say, I would not have the patience to manually click every step I took for the whole day. There was no issue in motivating the kids to move - in fact they didn't want to stop so the challenge was getting them back in the classroom!
We are now getting our friends, family and other school staff on board to contribute to our 'trip'. How far will we get?”
