How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? By forcing them to see things from the perspective of others.

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? It has provided me with an understanding that I need to consider all aspects of the debate.

“A highly engaging kit that fit well with our inquiry learning.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? It will help students to be critical thinkers and acknowledge that people have different perspectives

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? It has made teaching NZ history a lot easier for both the teacher and the students learning

“This is an amazing resource and even more amazing that it was free. At the kura I work at we are given our science and social science topics- school wide. What I loved about this kit was that it fit with one of our term topics. HOWEVER, due to Covid we had to change our planning and the kit was not accessable to me. It also did not fit with our changed inquiry topic. I am planning on using this in the future though. And I love working with school kit to achieve awesome things.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? It was great. Students enjoyed learning about Tupaia and his role in creating a good relationship between Maori and Cook's crew.

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? It has made me ensure I am not 'lazy' with the knowledge I search for, that is: to seek for other perspectives not just the most well known or well recorded. Seeking the other stories and perspectives on that moment in history.

“The ideas and information provided in this kit gave me a great deal of knowledge and understanding of NZ First Encounters. This gave me the confidence to allow me to be creative and adapt the activities and outcomes to suit my class. I learnt a great deal myself and as a New Zealander felt a bit ashamed to not be as knowledgeable on our own history. Teaching the idea of seeing history from different perspectives is really important and this was the main idea taken by my students.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? My tamariki really got that history is written by people, and it's woven of points of view, and that not all those points of view have been represented in official History.

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? I can see how using the people more as characters is really engaging, and that relating it to current world events also helped students take an interest.

“What an amazing kit! We loved the resources in the kit and especially the reality aspect of the museum part of the kit... Very cool. Here are some photos of the class exploring the character cards.”

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“To Whom It May Concern Unfortunately due the lockdowns we have had and the need for changing of our long term plans, I was unable to implement the kit with my class. I apologies for this. I reviewed the contents and was excited but as mentioned we had to change our term plans to cater for the lockdown with a modified version of what we needed to cover. I am holding onto the kit in the hope that I can implement it in the near future. I will not be able to do this during this Term or the next. Apologies for that. Regards Anna”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? They really engaged with different characters and points of view. It broadened our discussions in many different ways which wouldn't have happened if the resources hadn't been so detailed and clear for them in the first place.

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? The idea of taking one particular story and exploring it for it's meaning and different points of view is something I hadn't considered before because of the time it would have taken for me to design an activity by myself for my class. To have this alread

“The detail in this kit is incredible. The thought and time that has been put in shows clearly through every single activity included in the pack.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? Allowing the kids time and space to discuss is just fantastic. It allows them to understand that history can be very biased and not always correct.

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? I love being challenged to teach NZ History. As a white, middle class, Englishman, these are perspectives I need to understand better. Thank you for your help.

“A really in depth, solid perspective building view of NZ history. One that the team should be very proud of. It creates interesting and challenging discussions when used well.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? They learnt that sometimes it is okay to agree to disagree. There is no one solution to a problem and this may mean they’d have to offer their own justifications to the discussions. The debate that ensued during the learning was impressive as students dis

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? I am a firm believer in knowing the different perspectives of NZ History. I’ve immersed myself in learning more about other perspectives that came about in the kit and though I will not enforce my own beliefs to children, I am pleased at the fact that the

“WOW! What an informative and rich kit for students to learn more about perspectives and the language / dialogue that came about during and after the unit. I was pleased that students had great resources to work with and in turn, they were able to make their own justified opinions. I loved the artefacts and as a teacher, you seek better ways to connect learning with the curriculum. This kit did just that. Thanks School Kit!”

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