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DIY World Records 24 Reviews

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Jess B
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Use of measurement and problem solving how they were going to measure was cool to see.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
Not Successful At All
Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Not so much
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, Equitable, Fun
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Can't remember right now.
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
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Very likely
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths and Literacy linked together really well.
“We loved this kit. The sequence of what to teach and activities to go with it was really clear/ easy to follow. Quite engaging and great for rangatahi to show their leadership skills.”
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Posted 17 minutes ago
Anonymous
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measurement and statistics
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
Not Successful At All
Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? N/A
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? fun, engaging, interesting
What was the most unique record achieved and why? We ran out of time to finish the kit so didn't get to find the most unique record
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
Not likely
Likely
Very likely
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Social Sciences
“Great kit - worked well with our measurement unit!”
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Posted 15 hours ago
Anonymous
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Time keeping, using milliseconds, record keeping, patterns and organisation, statistical thinking, finding averages, graphing, basic number knowledge.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
Not Successful At All
Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Exploring other ideas and world records. Creating statistical information that can be added year after year as we create our own Kaponga School World Records.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Silly, Creative, Engaging
What was the most unique record achieved and why? I am not sure if this was unique but it was the toughest and surprisingly created a lot of cometition with the students who could participate. World record : Fastest shoe lace tying of 5 shoes, blindfolded using bunny hole technique and ending with a double knot. This created a discussion around world records are are not inclusive and how they can be made specifically for the talents and skills of one or some.
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
Not likely
Likely
Very likely
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Mathematics, English, EOTC, Health & PE, Arts. The arts was not expected but we had records that required drawing, singing and some that didn't make it to our line up even had dance and musical instruments.
“This kits was an amazing unit to tackle at the end of the year. We spent those messy weeks around testing assembly practice and other term 4 events looking at, pulluing appart and creating our DIY World Records. The coolest part was, we took the records with us to our week long camp in Wellington. They were perfect to do in any down time we had and even before bed. The parents got involved and it became a huge competition to be the record holder. As we were going around Wellington we thought of other records we could make too. I will be using this kit over and over. It really engaged the students and they didn't even know they we diving into many areas of the NZC. Well done School Kit, you have outdone yourselves!”
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Posted 1 day ago
Aimee D
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measuring things, dependent on the challenges.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
Not Successful At All
Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? None
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? ambitious, challenging and fun
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Holding their breath whilst in a headstand - it was challenging and many kids had never attempted a headstand before.
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
Not likely
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Very likely
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? History of world records in NZ
“If you are looking for a resources to follow a study on the Olympics or Commonwealth Games, this resource is it. Set up to run your own version of 'World Records' the kids have fun creating weird and wacky records to break. Allow yourself a lot of time to pull these all off though (creating in a group instead of individuals will be a better option).”
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Posted 1 day ago
Adreena B
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? It supported students in being able to continue making connections between maths and the real world applications.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
Not Successful At All
Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? great opportunity to have self directed group/individual mathematical activities as they were interested in knowing more
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? interesting, challenging, fun
What was the most unique record achieved and why? build the tallest tower - encouraged stem thinking, made it competitive, and got them thinking outside the box.
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
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Very likely
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Stem was a big one.
“student enjoyed learning about tryps of world records and trying to set their own in class, then comparing results. Great engagement from the class.”
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Posted 3 days ago
Amber D
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We tied in statistics, decimals, and time as well as mean, media, mode and range.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
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Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We've also incorporated te Reo place names and revisited the meaning of the longest place name. This is a local place for us, so we also discussed distance to travel there from our kura and how many students have already been.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, competitive, and a good laugh!
What was the most unique record achieved and why? How fast we could say the longest place name. We chose this because it's one of our local places.
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
Not likely
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Very likely
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths, local stories, te reo (Sorry my videos and photos have been deleted. We had a couple left of some data collection)
“We had fun coming up with ideas for what types of records we could break. In the end, we chose to go with who could say the longest place name the fastest. It was a great way to tie in statistics, decimals and time. Thanks, School Kit!”
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Posted 3 days ago
Elysia G
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Lots of measuring, timing, counting etc
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
Not Successful At All
Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Lots of connections to the Olympic Games
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, fun, achievable for all
What was the most unique record achieved and why? book staking while hoping on one foot!
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
Not likely
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Very likely
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths
“Really enjoyed this kit, the kids were motivated to create their own records and every child felt successful. They had so much fun completing the challenges together and really motivated each other to succeed.”
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Posted 3 days ago
Penny J
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Keeping time, recording it accuratley
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
Not Successful At All
Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Led into olympics talk, sport in general.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? fun, comprehensive, well resourced.
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Longest time hanging on a bar with two hands while balancing a book on your left foot.
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
Not likely
Likely
Very likely
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Literacy
“It worked well with kids loving trying out their own world records.”
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Posted 3 days ago
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