How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? It gave them more of an understanding of the saying there is two sides to every story and makes them realise that we all perceive things differently which was incredible and has even helped with behavior. This kit made it a lot more hands on and realise

“I really enjoyed this kit it was so fascinating and seeing how the students reacted and even changing their points of view and gives them more of an understanding of the statement there is two sides to every story.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? I love how I can relate this to the everyday issues in my classroom - what would the other person say has happened?

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? It is given me a solid way to teach something I don't have a lot of knowledge about.

“Wow! This kit has been amazing! We actually haven't finished yet, it has provided so much rich learning for my students. Thank you so much for the opportunity to be involved in this. My students are currently 'creating' their museum exhibits and they are having so much fun and learning so much!”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? The kit has been awesome to help my class understand that everyone has their own version of a story. That everyone's opinion should be valued. I have incorporated what's your story into my classroom behaviour plan and also story writing.

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? I have really enjoyed looking at how other people were involved in New Zealand History and how there were different situations that Captain Cook was involved in.

“I really enjoyed using this kit with my class as it gave them a platform to understand that everyone has a story. They are still in the process of creating a play to go with the kit.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? This kit made it really clear to students that there are multiple, often blurred perspectives to New Zealand history. It was a really good resource to make this clear and helped build upon the learning that had already occurred in the class this year, par

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? This kit has made me realise how valuable and exciting teaching New Zealand History can be for students. It is really exciting knowing that this will be part of the curriculum going forward and we have been presented an engaging way to get this across to

“On the whole I thought this was a well designed engaging kit. It presented information about an important topic in an interesting way. The students really liked the character card guess who - game based learning is usually a hit. In regards to the story that was on the character cards, while it was interesting, I found the content a bit too complicated for my class. It took a lot of scaffolding for me to enable them to make the connections and realise how the different story lines fit together. If in future this could be considered while making these resources that would be excellent.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? This kit helped to introduce multiple perspectives by the different tasks and characters involved. It created rich learning in terms of the hands on approach. Absolutely fantastic resource!

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? Teaching NZ history unfortunately is something that I don't manage to schedule into my timetable that often. This was a great opportunity to deliver NZ history in a different way than I would normally in the classroom. The children absolutely loved it!

“This kit was inspirational for my students. They were fully engaged and enthused by the lessons that were prepared. It was hands on, real life learning. It was extremely well organised and easy to follow.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? This facilitated many interesting discussions about culture and perspective and connection.

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? Given the characters and roles, it has created a relatable perspective for students to connect to and consider. This has helped Them to re-evaluate their existing ideas and pre conceptions.

“This was a fantastic unit of writing that engaged my students in a real life and hands on experience of New Zealand history. The different characters allowed my students to connect with the different perspectives involved in NZ history and created a more relatable understanding. The results have been a deeper understanding of our national history, and this has been a fantastic tool to facilitate such learning.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? The cards made the learning explicit. Seeing the persons face and their perspective was very powerful. I cannot thank you enough for the resource. You guys really are doing an incredible job supporting us teachers to provide quality and deep learning for

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? I think it's highlighted to me how important it is to teach multiple perspectives. This kit is a useful resource for further use, I feel I could bring out bits from time to time, I will use it every year.

“This was the best kit I've had so far (with the exception of the Walking with an Anzac). It was highly engaging, across year levels - I had a mixed group. The children were shocked at the differing opinions and I think the learning was profound. THANK YOU so much for this opportunity and an incredible resource.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? Two events occurred that severely disrupted how I was and was not able to use this kit. The first was Covid 19 lockdowns, and the second was that half my Year 5 class was moved on to other classes and were replaced by Year 4s. The Kit could have been bet

“A sticky mess greeted us when we opened the bag of Museum items - the jar had leaked its contents. I purchased the book on Tupaia, as I needed to develop my knowledge and understanding of this great man.”

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