How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Tap off while brushing teeth, 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? Many families changed their shower routines and one family installed a timer in their shower (8 in their family) to limit water usage.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

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What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? A great way for each student to measure their own success. The showering one was the most fascinating for most of the kids.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? For the majority yes, for some after we finished the learning, students reverted back to old habits (showering for longer). I guess it varies from family to family. We continued to discuss in class afterwards though.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“This is an excellent resource to help students understand the importance of saving water, especially now that water meters are being installed in our community/town. Great authentic learning”

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Posted 3 months ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Choose water instead of juice / fizzy

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? Rural related water issues.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? Good for routines.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? Made them more aware of what they were using.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“Great kit for the class. They loved it!”

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Posted 3 months ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Tap off while brushing teeth, 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? A greater awareness of the value of water and how it makes its way to our taps.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? Turning the tap off when brushing teeth

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? A greater awareness of the use of water in NZ and how we take it for granted! They became very interested in how to save water and take care of our environments.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“This is an engaging and hands on resource which I highly recommend!”

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Posted 4 months ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Using one cup per day, Tap off while brushing teeth

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? I hope that the students carry a little voice reminding them of best practices and things they can do. We also discussed how we store water, dam rivers and impacts from that.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

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What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? Some students really leaned in to the daily stamp and others were hard pressed. I think our breath and the cloud were favourites.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? They definitely became more aware of habits we all have that really use a lot of water.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“Water savers was a great guided way to dive into an something that will only impact our planet more and more. A lack of fresh water. I think it is a vital topic and it was delivered in a great way to engage students, keep them interested, while giving practical and doable steps to make change.”

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Posted 4 months ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? 5 minute showers, Using the chore chooser

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? Huge impact. We are a small rural school with many children living on farms. This prompted them to look closely at our water use at school and at home. We have a school pool and a water way nearby. We recently had rats chew through the water pipes in our library. We did a huge amount of learning on the water cycle to begin with then the children conducted their own inquiries

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? Initially it had a huge impact as the class had never thought about their water use like this before. The novelty did wear off and we did forget to do it sometimes as we started to go off on a tangent involved in our own water inquiries

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? My students had no awareness before, I have had feedback from their parents stating they have become ‘the water police’ at home!

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“The water saver kit was an amazing introduction and lead way into the water cycle and to what became a huge inquiry into how we can conserve & preserve water in our home, school, NZ and the world. My class were so engaged and enthusiastic all throughout their learning with many conducting experiments at home in their own time and building elaborate models of the water cycle and water saving inventions at home!”

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Posted 4 months ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? hopefully a great imapct

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? The impact was motivating and the improvement in their habits showed this

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? the children really implemented the tap off while brushing and 5 minute showers at home

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“The website supported the activities and the video clips were good to watch. As summer was beginning was a really good time to do it.”

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Posted 4 months ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Using the chore chooser

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? It made the students realise how much of an impact their water saving could have. They were pretty shocked at what percentage of fresh water was actually available for the world's population to use.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

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What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? They enjoyed it all but really wanted to share all the ways they have saved water from the chore chooser as some were doing several of those a night.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? Yes definitely.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“This was a great kit getting the students to focus on how much water they are wasting and could be saving. They were shocked how much water could be saved when they turned off the tap while cleaning their teeth, but were a little horrified at turning the tap off while washing hands and the 5 minute shower was a struggle for the girls!! It was a great kit to do coming into summer when we are likely to water the gardens etc and get them thinking about how this could be managed.”

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Posted 4 months ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Tap off while brushing teeth, 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? The children have continued to monitor the time of their showers. This was evident when we did a study for the Virtual Young and Healthy Adventures.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

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Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? The daily stamping was a great visual of the impact the students were making. The most fascinating would have been the amount of water used for a shower and toilet.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? It certainly changed perceptions and made my students more responsible and aware of water uses. They were already quite aware but thought since we had a lake on our doorstep that water was readily and easily available.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“My ciass really enjoyed the water saving activities. We were doing a study on water tor Life so we had covered a range of topics about water and this kit was great for teaching how to save water. I had the question 'why do we need to save water when we live near a lake?' They assumed the water just came from the lake and it was an endless supply. The students who participated with Home Learning really enjoyed the stamping and managing their own stamping. The enjoyed seeing how they contributed, how much water they saved and thought about what could have been achieved if the whole class had participated They also enjoyed learning about 'hidden water!”

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Posted 4 months ago

Water Savers 24 Reviews