What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? It didn't because we had to find the activities that worked for our kids and then create a programme that would help explain what exploring was and then try to implement it in a way that they could understand. All activities were quite challenging.

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

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How did you find the open format of this kit? Challenging. Needed structure in some way to help guide the teaching, start at this one and follow this path etc. Too many choices to pick from within a limited timeframe, made it more work and then trying to adapt it to suit our children's needs.

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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How useful is the format of the kit for Teacher Planning?

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“Exploring Kit”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Website, storytelling clips, legends helped go across areas easy to connect art, literacy and social sciences. Also helped doing the get NZ writing kit at the same time.

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

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How did you find the open format of this kit? The open format is definitely welcome, for my situation though I would've liked a few project based ideas to base some learning on, purely due to new school, new class, kids finding it hard to sit and talk.

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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How useful is the format of the kit for Teacher Planning?

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“Great kit to start the year. Very open ended,good quality resources included. The map, dice and cards are well made and can be used in many ways. Some more structured ideas would've helped but this is due to my particular circumstances being at a new level, new class, new school.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We used the story telling dice and the cards to further enrich our oral language programme which tied in to literacy very well. We also used the kit to explore New Zealand culture and history

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

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How did you find the open format of this kit? I felt that there was a lack of guidance within the hard copy but the web page had lots of useful information to support the unpacking of the kit

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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How useful is the format of the kit for Teacher Planning?

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“A good kit all round with lots of different learning opportunities within the kit.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Being able to use 1 resources to link the arts, languages, pangarau reo matatini in such an easily understood way not only for kaiako but tamariki has been an absolute bonus. Especially when these can all be easily adapted in to MMI settings.

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

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How did you find the open format of this kit? The format of the kit is great visually making it easily followed and adult friendly - kaiako, kaiawhina, matua awhi alike. Having external links to use digital tech has been great.

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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How useful is the format of the kit for Teacher Planning?

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“another wonderful resource that has had the tamariki engaged and having great learning experience together. ngā mihi nunui ki a koutou for your time and effort to offer these wonderful resources for our tamariki.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? I think cognitively my students weren't ready for the cross-curricular learning experiences in this kit. They struggled with the concept of making a bird that doesn't look like a bird.

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

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How did you find the open format of this kit? I spent so long watching the videos, reading all of the material and thinking how I could adapt it to my year level. I felt like it was a waste of my time as not much of it was applicable. I liked the topic but it would have been easier to not use the kit

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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Very Practical

How useful is the format of the kit for Teacher Planning?

Not Useful At All

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Very Useful

“I found the kit really dense and hard to use with my year 1-2 class. They didn't engage with the videos and the activities were far above their abilities. I had to change quite a lot to make it suitable. We did enjoy the topic of explorers but this was more based off what we did that wasn't in the kit.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Story-telling; maths and writing

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

Not Effective At All

Neutral

Very Effective

How did you find the open format of this kit? could be used in different ways

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

Not Practical At All

Neutral

Very Practical

How useful is the format of the kit for Teacher Planning?

Not Useful At All

Neutral

Very Useful

“A very useful kit for the boys in my class”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? It fitted in with our inquiry topic which was based on social science but we were also exploring through literacy and visual arts. Our intentions were to use it through all these areas but obviously we haven't had a chance to complete the work yet.

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

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Neutral

Very Effective

How did you find the open format of this kit? This was my first time with a kit so it took a while for me to understand how it worked and to think about how we could use the activities.

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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Neutral

Very Practical

How useful is the format of the kit for Teacher Planning?

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“Some of the work in the kit seemed a bit challenging for the age it was aimed at. We didn't really get a chance yet to dive into the work, we have started to introduce it and have looked through the kit and the activities definitely sound good.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? I did not get very far in using the kit but I liked the links to maths and art as well as literacy especially oral language.

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

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Very Effective

How did you find the open format of this kit? As above - I found it almost too open.

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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Neutral

Very Practical

How useful is the format of the kit for Teacher Planning?

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“I like the open endedness - however in saying that it was almost too open ended. The website as a tool for resources was good but I found the resources were not overly useful in my planning. I found it hard to know where to start and in fairness we as a class did a lot of Kupe and Te Wheke last year so I was trying to not to re-do what I had done with a lot of my kids.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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