DIY World Records 24 Reviews

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We had to engage in lots of measuring and multipicative thinking whilst developing and recording our records. Then we had to discuss all the mathematical literacy, high level vocab etc when we made our graphs and looked at patterns within and between our events.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I will use the kit again for sure. Especially for measurement, the kids were so engaged and it was purposeful to/for them. They also want to explore world records further and find out what drives people to pursue them.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun , purposeful, engaging

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Arm wrestle whilst singing BINGO. The singing part added a real challenge, my class were actually quite strong, so we had several rounds. The photo is of the final round, it went on for over ten minutes - the boys were trying hard to continue singing, but it ended in a tie

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths (measurement), social sciences (Co-operation), history (Background knowledge building), literacy

“Such a fun and engaging resorce. The task was completley student driven and really purposeful. Even my most reluctant mathmaticians were engaged and motivated due to it being about them. They were genuinely interested in making a world record. The competiion factor also played a part which gets most kids interested. I loved teaching this kit, it was funny and engaging and the kids were naturally motivated to get into it.”

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Posted 3 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? I had to add onto the kit to reach the specific goals I had in mind for my students - we used the results for each record as a data set for our statistics work.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Linked to statistics

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, Relevant, Low Tech

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Fastest time in which someone can draw an accurate picture of Peppa Pig - 5 seconds

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

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25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Literacy skills to describe the challenges accurately, and use of superlatives. Maths - looking at mean median and mode and graphing.ian and mode, and graphing of results.

“My class found this engaging and the resources supported the kit well. It tied in with the work we have been doing looking at the Olympics and Paralympics.”

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Posted 3 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? The kit components encouraged students to apply their mathematical and measurement skills to measure the records in a variety of ways. They needed a deep understanding of measurement concepts in order to plan out their records, because they needed to think about how they would measure it and make it fair. They needed to consider which tools would be most effective and what the most accurate way to measure would be.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We have extended the learning about adjectives and parts of speech, particularly superlative and comparative adjectives.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, hilarious, fun

What was the most unique record achieved and why? The loudest bark (like a dog) with water in your mouth. We had many very creative record ideas, but this one seemed the most unique and different.

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

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25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The kit integrated multiple learning areas. In different sessions we were doing P.E., maths, technology, art, English.

“This kit was great fun for my class! It was a great way to integrate literacy and maths learning into something that was super engaging for some of the more reluctant learnenrs in those subjects. We worked through the kit 1 session a week (1-2hrs a week), and this has been something the children look forward to each week!”

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Posted 3 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We used the measuring tape more than the timer.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We ended up doing a lot more measurement (length) activities, as this was an area that students had trouble with (being accurate to mm's)

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? fun, accessible,

What was the most unique record achieved and why? We didn't get to this part

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths and Writing

“The children really enjoyed the kit, and found the activities to be fun but as a teacher I found there wasn't enough actual learning in it. I ended up adding additional measurement activities (length). The children found it tricky to come up with their own challenges. We ended up not actually finishing all of the activities.”

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Posted 3 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Conversion and comparison

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Research and writing

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Interesting, endless, creative

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Number of hops on the spot with eyes closed

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths, Health & PE, Writing

“The timing of this was perfect, it worked beatifully with my unit on measurement which coincided with the 2024 Olympics.”

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Posted 3 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measuring the length or time. Counting, Statistics. Logistics. Evaluating.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Creating graphs. Writing ideas. Incorporating with the olympics.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? engaging, motivating, entertaining

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Throwing a tennis ball with your left hand saying chilly, chilly cheeseburger.

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Linked well in with the Olympics. Writing

“The kids were keen to just get on with doing the records and not the whole process leading up to it. Next time I would make sure I did each step better, perhaps during writing time as well.”

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Posted 3 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We learned about stopwatches and telling time and the measurement was also great.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We've spent a lot of tim ereflecting back to the concept of fair testing.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, engaging, challenging

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Stacking glue sticks as one our lowest learners won this record.

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Inquiry, Literacy, Mathematics, Physical Education, Health & Wellbeing

“The World Record kit was fun and engaging for our 4 classes. We all loved the bright and colourful resources and the thought that had gone into the planning. The kids being able to create their own records meant a large range of attainable records for the range of students we have in class.”

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Posted 3 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? It made it clear the differences between the different kinds of measurement and how one was in 60 and the others were in 100.

How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Comparing time and distance as a ratio, bringing in how ratios work

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? quirky, accurate and engaged

What was the most unique record achieved and why? The had clapping one, looking at what a clap actually is, defining it to be fair

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Engagement with different topics and researching things that appl;y to us

“It was a great starting point for the Olympics. We looked at the perseverance needed to complete activities and the use of measuring devices to get absolute measurements was a great way to introduce different kinds of measurement.”

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Posted 3 months ago