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DIY World Records 24 Reviews

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Rebekah P
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measuring time using stopwatches and measuring length using a variety of measurement tools.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
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Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Noticing other world records and interest in the Oympics and Paralympics.
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, creative.
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Shortest time to run backwards from goal post to goal post while holding a shoe above your head with your left hand.
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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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Literacy - vocabulary. Physical Education. Maths.
“What a great way to get my class excited about the Olympics! We loved how it was left open to the learners to create their own world records and how it incorporated measurement.”
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Posted 4 months ago
Natasha W
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Pretty well. How many have won for this? What are we lacking? Etc
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? How positive behaviour towards each other, impacts how we see ourselves and what we are capable of.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Encouraging, exciting, fun
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Best laugh in the class, the sound of laughter is something we take for granted.
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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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths, Life Skills, Social Science
“We decided to use the records to award classmates that were excelling in being outstanding humans. What an amazing difference it made to how we treated each other, long may it last!”
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Posted 4 months ago
Juliet M
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? The components were very helpful, the timers, measuring tapes and the badges helped make their challenges more successful.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
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Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Adapting and using this within our class throughout other areas of math.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
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Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging. Collaborative. Purposeful
What was the most unique record achieved and why? The unique record achieved was a 30 second handstand - as most students in the class were not able to do this.
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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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? P.E, Health, Language (writing), ART (students created a banner for our class),
“This kit was very helpful in engaging my students in a rich learning task, that incoroprated team work, decision making, managing students and timers, being specific about how to accurately measure a challenge, steps / jumps / minutes / distance etc. The students celebrated each others challenges and it was great to engage less reluctant learners to get into learning outside the classroom on the courts and field. Another positive was the way it allowed students to select a challenge, and most students chose a skill that they themselves were capable of doing. I would definitely recommend this kit for other students for the Year 5/6 7/8 level.”
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Posted 4 months ago
Shona V
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Using measurements for the record and thinking about different units and way's to measure things eg how long, time , distance, how many.
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? More physical activity and maths
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
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Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, engaging, measurement
What was the most unique record achieved and why? How many goals can be scored in 3 minutes while yelling peanut butter.
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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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths, literacy, emotional regulation, history
“This kit was great, it had everything needed including a great plan and activities ready in the planning document. Items also available digitally. The activity was fun and the kids had a blast learning about measurement and thinking about how to create unique world records.”
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Posted 4 months ago
Suzanne H
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Mathematical thinking was encouraged by the need to figure out how to measure, what to measure, what is measureable, units of measure and in particular how to be accurate and consistent. Critical thinking including how to set up and organise the event.
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? Future records are in the pipeline for Term 3. Taking the challenges school wide for those that want to. Leading into our own World Record book videos etc like the videos we watched. Other kinds of records Olympic, World, Commonwealth etc
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Collaborative Inclusive Engaging
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Fastest lolly sort into colours while doing the splits. This was because it was so challeging to do not many people could do it!
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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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? PE pracitcing all the skills we needed for the challenges Reading Reading all the Guinness World Record books
“This kit was so much fun and engaging for everyone! We had so much fun and learned so much from this kit. This was definitely one of the best kits for Year 4 and for our measurement focus at the end of the term. The students loved the equipment the old school timers, measuring tapes and most especially the lanyards for the officials and the badges for the record holders. The recording sheets and banners made the kit feel real and the records we were setting became authentic like the Guinness records we researched. The measurement activities will be more memorable as the students were leading their learning by creating the tasks by figuring out what being measurable even means, units of measure, and how to be accurate and consistent.”
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Posted 4 months ago
Nicole B
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We incorporated lots of measurement and mean/median/mode/range which are things that our tamariki have been working on. It brought about lots of conversations about real-life application of these.
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 will build on this with our Year 8s in the second half of the year.
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, exciting, fun
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Most basketball hoops shot while clapping your hands behind your back
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, literacy, history, art
“Our tamariki loved engaging with the DIY World Records kit! It tied together lots of curriculum areas that we had been focusing on such as measurement, mean/median/mode/range, and word types. Ot was fantastic and they were all able to complete the tasks in a way that they found interesting. They loved coming up with their own record and then trying to break others, such a fun day!!”
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Posted 4 months ago
Caroline F
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? measurement was key for us this term in maths so the timers and tapes were great.
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 will be using some of the things again in term 3 as we focus on the Olympics in Inquiry and all he records our athletes will meet/break!
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, mathematical
What was the most unique record achieved and why? No real world records were created/broken for our class but the most unique involved creative thinking, and a toothpick and playdough structure of a sports stadium.
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? As I said maths, but will also link to Inquiry next term.
“The kids enjoyed making up their own 'tests' and trailing what could make a record.”
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Posted 4 months ago
Daniel M
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Lots of Measurement and Statistics.
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? Micro Olympics this term.
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. Interactive.
What was the most unique record achieved and why?
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? Loys of Literacy. Teamwork and cooperation skills as well.
“Great kit. Great resources. Students were engaged and motivated.”
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Posted 5 months ago
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