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The Farming Kit Reviews

4.2 Rating 339 Reviews
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? I was a bit confused about how to use the counters. However we loved the poem and it would be awesome to have maybe 3 poems?
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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?
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How did you find the open format of this kit? This made it flexible and easy to teach while having a guide if you weren't sure.
How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?
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We began the farming kit before lockdown and although learning at home had it's challenges, it ended up being quite nice to be able to continue to learn about farming in New Zealand at home as a tie across between school and home learning.
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Posted 4 years ago
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The map was a great connector for cross-curricular learning. Lots of conversations started from it and lead to further inquiry using books and devices, maths words problems, books selected to read to the whole class with follow up activities.
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How did you find the open format of this kit? The open format of the kit allowed for flexibilty in my teaching. It was very useful, as a first time user, to have access to ideas and guidance on how to use the resources.
How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?
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The kit was full of great resources . The 100 shades of greeen art was a success and we were pleased with the end result. Lockdown stopped us going further with the kit but the KWL chart we completed showed the growth in the children's understanding of farming.
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Posted 4 years ago
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? as mentioned above, with ICT and coding but also through science, learning about milk and dairy farming and doing milk experiments showing that the milk contained fat.
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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?
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How did you find the open format of this kit? generally ok, but some things werent explained, like the cubes.
How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?
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It was great learning about farming in the short time we had, we enjoyed observing and using the poster, and turning this into a coding map where children would direct and move around their animals to a certain place using coding.
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Posted 4 years ago
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? I love how so many areas of the curriculum can be covered in one lesson.
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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?
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How did you find the open format of this kit? I would like a little more structure and support with the junior kits.
How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?
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The NZ farming kit was amazing, my Year 1’s loved exploring it. It would be good to have a little more support around how to teach it and where to start.
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Posted 4 years ago
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We investigated the local farming area - mapping.
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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?
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How did you find the open format of this kit? Liked getting a box full of things
How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?
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This is a hard review due to school closure. Also there was no farm visit date given so it was hard to work towards nothing- juniors need it fresh in their minds.
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Posted 4 years ago
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? It allowed my class to have rich learning discussions. We brainstormed ideas and really enjoyed working our way through the kit to the best of our ability.
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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?
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How did you find the open format of this kit? Because the Kit came at a difficult time, and I have had only a few children back at school we didn't fully finish off the kit. I have focused on the wellbeing of my students since we got back after lockdown. I Teach Year O. The format was easy to do.
How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?
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I found this kit came at a very difficult time, so we didn't finish off the kit. I have had only a few tamariki at school after the lockdown.
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Posted 4 years ago
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Story dice were very helpful and easy to use.
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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?
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How did you find the open format of this kit? Not enough guidance for the basic lessons my learners need. Some have no idea what an animal is, so an easier kit design would of been more support.
How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?
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Enjoyed what we could but thought it was little difficult for my new entrant - year one students. Concept wasn’t as easy to teach as possibly could of been.
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Posted 4 years ago
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Used the art inspiration for shades of green painting Introduced lots of new vocabulary thru the videos and books for the poetry writing Only one child from my class from a farming background so he was our expert. The only one who knew about cow pats!
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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?
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How did you find the open format of this kit? Used the downloads from the School Kit website to understand the contents of the kit. Well explained
How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?
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Great resources linked across the curriculum. Video links were helpful Didn’t visit a farm as unit was interrupted by Covid
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Posted 4 years ago