What did you notice about student engagement in the learning with the DIY World Records Kit? They really enjoyed the crazy aspect of it and the break from maths in the classroom.

“Our top stream Year 7 class and our top stream Year 8 class worked together to create some crazy world records. They enjoyed a sunny afternoon attempting each others. Examples include the fastest time to eat an apple with hands held behind their back, most converted kicks in 1 minute while wearing red band gumboots. Most hockey goals scored in 1 minute with a giant soft toy rabbit tied to your tummy. Most foods identified during a blind food taste test. Most people involved in performing the milkshake dance while drinking milkshakes. Fastest time to complete the mountain bike track. Most stickies stuck to your face while balancing a can on your head. We had lots of fun but felt we didn't really do the Maths justice. We were hoping for something to extend our top maths kids but it was really very simple as far as the Maths was concerned. Perhaps we needed to have spent more time on comparing results and if we had more data we could have found averages and looked at anomalies. Thanks for a fun experience though.”

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What did you notice about student engagement in the learning with the DIY World Records Kit? Students enjoyed attempting each other's world record. They were engaged with the readings and wanted more time to go through the Guinness World Record website. Humanbenchmark activity was also a hit with them. They wanted to beat each other's scores. Cre

“It was a fun and challenging activity for the students. The suggested activities and websites added value to the activities. The students struggled coming up with unique ideas but they were able to help each other out to complete their world record statements. Great integration of curriculum areas - Reading, Writing and Maths. This is an activity I would do again.”

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What did you notice about student engagement in the learning with the DIY World Records Kit? The students were very engaged and came away super proud of themselves.

“What an amazing kit. We got to find out all about superlatives, measurement, activity organisation and most of all we had so much fun attempting them as they were our own individual creations. It was fantastic to have the bunting and definition sheets to make it really authentic. Thank you so much for the resources.”

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What did you notice about student engagement in the learning with the DIY World Records Kit? A few wanted to keep changing their challenge as they couldn’t achieve what they initially planned. Great lesson in perseverance. They were all totally engaged and enjoyed the variety of ideas that they generated.

“The class had a lot of fun with this. A lot of them learnt the value of preparation and practice, probably more so than the statistical component I was hoping to prioritise. That could be in part that due to time constraints at the end of term with our annual cultural concert taking priority.”

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What did you notice about student engagement in the learning with the DIY World Records Kit? The children had a lot of fun, especially making up their own records and testing them out. We value physical exercise in our class so a lot of them allowed for an active break from the classroom.

“I loved this Kit. I found it a tiny bit hard to find the teaching notes, but am totally ok about the fact that this could have been due to my poor management rather than yours. I loved the maths connections and all of the specific vocabulary that we got to explore!”

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What did you notice about student engagement in the learning with the DIY World Records Kit? A very engaging kit. It appealed to all learners in our multi-level classroom. All students could celebrate their own and others successes.

“Student Feedback: An amazing learning opportunity. A fun way to start our measurement focus. We really had to practice perseverance :) We learnt lots about measuring distance and time. We would love to do this again. It gave us a chance to practice some of the Key COmpetencies like working together, participating and contributing and managing self. Thanks heaps School Kit!”

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What did you notice about student engagement in the learning with the DIY World Records Kit? The engagement was high, the kids are keen to promote their records and challenge the rest of the school and the use of measuring (incidental stats learning and graphing was great to see as well)

“The kids are still working on their records! We started the kit in the last weeks of Term 1 and the kids loved challenging themselves and others online and in the physical challenges. The paper clip challenge revealed several clever ";tweaks"; to the rules that brought up the need to be quite specific in the setup for each challenge!”

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What did you notice about student engagement in the learning with the DIY World Records Kit? Students were engaged with all the tasks, particularly the digital side and still are talking about records they have seen on the GWR website. Having the physical stopwatch and measuring tape created a lot of excitement, many had never used a stopwatch be

“Room 4 absolutely loved participating in the world records school kit. They were scaffolded well into the record day and it was a great practical link with our measurement maths focus of the term.”

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