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

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? Seeing water as a finite resource, as well as small changes making large impact were discussion points the students got a lot out of.

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? We only focussed on two areas - the showers and the brushing teeth. This was easy to manage and remember for each student so it made it easier to track. Students who were having really long showers previously made the biggest impact when they realised how much water was being wasted.

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 see the impact of small changes over time. (we caclculated the impact based on our statistical inquiry and how much water would be saved each year by our class alone. This was quite impacting).

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

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“We were doing a unit on Water and conservation so this fit in beautifully. The students really enjoyed the read life application of the satitistical investigation. We were lacking in time with other commitments so focussed mainly on the brushing teeth and showering investigations. The students were quite blown away with the magnitude of water that we saved just in the space of the investigation. Each individual noted down their savings for the week and we found that careful planning and education helped with water saving.”

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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

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? They were interested in how much water is used when grown fruits and vegetables.

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? They loved the daily stamping practice.

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, they are wanting to conserve water and are always looking for ways to do this.

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 to help teach students about saving water. They were engaged and enjoyed making changes.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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

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Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Tap off while brushing teeth, 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? Helped build awareness of water saving

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? Kids kept reminding me to do tge stamping. Most interested in noticing which areas had more uptake

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? More aware, kids and whaanau talked and tried different water savings activity.

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

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“A great , simple kit that had us thinking, noticing and Tracking our water usage. Provoked lots of conversations.”

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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, 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? Lots of learning shared with whanau as evidenced by class SeeSaw discussions.

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? All encouraged each other to do more each day - a challenge for which ones you could do in your home.

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, as this linked into our inquiry and many saw the link between saving our water and the impacts on our environment. They were fascinated by the visual representation of the amount of drinkable water on earth - this really was an eye-opener!

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

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“Thanks for the engaging kit. Our tamariki were really engaged and our SeeSaw communication with whanau showed that many were sharing their learning on water saving tips with their families. This also fitted really well into our inquiry (Under the Canopy) and also in time for Matariki.”

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Posted 1 year 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, 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? Definitely the awareness of water conservation and what simple steps they can take in their own worlds.

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? Really engaging for most. Also great to bring some stats to life!

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? Absolutely - more aware there are simple actions they can take

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

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“This kit has been a perfect teacher and student resource for our school inquiry on kaitiaki o te wai - guardians of our water. The videos, experiements and information was really suited for our Yr 5/6 class. The engagement with their own worlds and home was great. Again I enjoyed how you could take elements of the kit and adapt them to fit with what we were doing. This is 100% a resource I will use agan. Having prompts come up with videos and ideas etc on the SK squad page was also brilliant.”

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Posted 1 year 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? We also studied the water cycle

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? Daily stamping is effective - it's like a reward sticker chart!

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? At school, the perception has changed, but I'm not yet sure about 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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“Lessons took a bit of unpacking to figure out exactly what to do, but once I had it sorted, it was fine.”

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Posted 1 year 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? 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? Finding out how much water is used to make clothes, electronics, juice etc was pretty mind-blowing for them and, I think, encouraged them to think hard before making decisions.

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? Only some actively recorded. Some found it annoying to try to record their usage / savings and totally forgot.

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 made many of them think. As the Year 7/8s in a full primary school, we led the school in a series of activities connected with the World Vision 40 hour challenges. I included a water use focus in my WV based social sciences topic and one group chose to share their water savers learning as their shared topic for the rest of the school. The screenshot attached below shows just one of the slides they made to share with the other classes.

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

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“I used just a few of the suggested activities. Watching the containers fill up with water drop stamps was engaging. I appreciate the potential for lots of mathematics with the different benchmarks but it wasn't that helpful when we had other maths priorities and just wanted a quick comparison. We made our own spreadsheet with probable savings based on averages which was more useful for us. It was a bit tricky to get our heads around 'saved water' when most of my kids already drink water instead of fizzy & juice as a rule anyway. And many of the other habits too. So we settled on 'if you are doing this, you are reducing overall water usage & we will record it.' Not sure if that was the idea or not but I didn't find that very clear and I certainly wanted kids who already have a good concept of water saving to be able to include their actions.”

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Posted 1 year 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? 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? I think the kids are now more aware of simple things like actually drinking all the water from their drink bottles, rather than tipping it out for "fresh" water.

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? It did make the kids be more accountable, funny enough I had a few kids who were trying to "catch" the not so honest 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? as previously mentioned not all kids perception was changed as they already had lots of conservation awareness. We did have lots of discussions about dishwashers. Many felt like they fully believe the "Factual information" in regards to water conservation with dishwasher! They became rather cynical.

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

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“The kit is AWESOME, however, I feel there wasn't a great amount of learning for my rural students. I work in an area where many students have their own water source. They were more aware of the value of water. But if anything it made it easier for the town supply kids to understand their friend's water habits better.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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