What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, creative, thought provoking.

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? The Good Food map kit was great at showing the kids how food waste is both a local thing and a massive global issue. We started by keeping it local, using the maps to pinpoint exactly where waste happens—like in their homes or the local food places. This made the problem feel real and something they could actually do something about. Ultimately, this helped them realise that even though food waste is a huge worldwide problem, their small, daily choices right here are the most important place to start making a real, sustainable change.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? In our school we have chickens who we give our food scraps to. Our students wanted to make feeding the chickens easier and more efficient. They designed a trolley on wheels that had the different bins that could be easily emptied and washed daily. Another idea was food waste sharing maps (or App) a simple, local system that lets families easily share extra garden produce, baked goods, or food nearing its expiration date with members to prevent it from being thrown out.

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

Not at all

Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? The amount of produce being randomly grown and left to go to waste in the gardens of our little town. There are many cats roaming around, are they drawn to food waste at the large spaces like the Kaponga Pub, Four Sqaure and Our School? These things were noticed on our Circle Walk.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? In 2026 we are looking at how our community garden can begin and be the main contributor to an app that lets families easily share extra garden produce, baked goods, or food nearing its expiration date with the community to prevent it from being thrown out. We also thought we could begin a composting game challenge that records the class or shows which groups are correctly diverting the most food waste over time.

“This kit was excellent to incorporate into our Food term Inquiry. It was a great way to move from food and nutrition to reducing food waste. We had a yearly focus connected to Maslows Hierachy of Needs and Te Whari Tapa Wha. Term 3's focus was Food. We are an enviro school so this kits was just perfect. The creative ways the teaching and learning sequence was constructed kept us all wanting more. Finishing with the pickles and soup was so much fun not to mention the prototyping and the 'Thing, That, For' cards.”

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Posted 5 days ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Informative, engaging and interesting

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? It sparked many conversations about the ways in which food waste can impact us not only in our community but also in New Zealand and around the world. It showed them just how much food is wasted every day and how things like the best before date can cause more wastage.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Coming up with a recipe book for using leftovers creatively. They loved using the thing, that, for cards and coming up with fun and silly ideas for food sustainability solutions.

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

Not at all

Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Community gardens and lots of options for fresh produce around them.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Not at this stage but hopefully at some stage soon.

“Students loved learning about the food systems around our area. We spent a lot of time looking at food waste and what they could do to try and reduce it. I was able to incorporate the Good food map kit with my inquriy topic and together we came up with more activities to help spark conversations and possible ways to combat food waste. There is a range of activities in the kit that targets a range of learners and it can easily be adapted to suit different needs.”

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Posted 1 week ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging relevant hands-on

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Varied between students

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Some of the recipes students suggested were very interesting. Suggested using food waste for animals. We looked online for what is being done in different communities.

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Pointed out the food pantry near our school - previously some had been unaware of the purpose of it.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Not yet

“This kit worked well with a sustainability unit we were doing across our school. We discussed how food is an expensive item for households and how we can redeuce food waste. I also integrated this with our writing as we looked at favourite meals. Going forward it will also integrate with our next instruction writing topic. A number of students were unsure of eating soup but most were willing to give it a taste.”

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Posted 1 week ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? engaging, hands on, thought provoking

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? We did not get to complete this part of the kit.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Using food that's in the fridge to make soups with, whatever you have lying around.

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

Not at all

Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? We have multiple vegetable gardens around our school, this kit got us really exploring our gardens and making sure that the produce that has been grown was actually used. We explored tasting a few different vegetables that students would bot normally consume.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? We have tried to combine this kit with the Garden to Table programme, and focussed on preparing and sharing kai together. We also tried to harvest some seeds from vegetable and use these to plant our own food.

“This kit has SO MANY teaching and learning opportunities within it. If you work at a school where you get to plan your whole timetable this would be amazing to do with your learners. It really gets students thinking about where their food comes from and how to use food in a better way. To be honest, we did not get through the whole kit but used parts of it to explore our local area and use our school gardens to harvest and prepare food from. I would like to continue working through aspects of the kit we have not had a chance to get to yet during term 4. The activities we did get to do, the students were really engaged in.”

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Posted 1 week ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Inspiring, motivating, messy

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Surprised them greatly

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? The sweet and savoury mixes were inventive but not quite as delicious as they may have thought.

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Lack of composting areas in home gardens

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? an enviro garden

“Comprehensive guide to reusing food and teaching students about sustainability of our food chain.”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

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

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Studnets realised it's a local issue as well as global.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? They connected their food waste solutions to a game on roblox that relates to growing vegetables!

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

Not at all

Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? They noticed how big our local park actually is when looking at it on the map.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? No

“Good Food Map was a helpful resource in teaching stduents about food waste. It made the topic interesting and fun.”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, Variety, Hands-on

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? I think we mainly focused on local issues.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Compost, Get before they become waste, Shop wisely to avoid waste - don't buy things your kids don't like to eat.

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Where some of the fruit trees are in our neighbourhood, especially ones on Public land.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? We already compost, but I think the kit made the students aware of what they were doing with their lunch waste.

“This kit was engaging for the students. We put the map of our area up on the classroom wall and did a virtual 60 minute walk. The students worked in groups to write the 60 minute circle poem. We then combined all the group poems into one class poem. The interviews at the school gate asking parents what they had for lunch was a great task. A chance to practice interview skills. We then used the data we collected in our Maths Statistics work. The results were very interesting. I really liked the Dinner cards, but I didn't get as much buy in from the class with this activity. The part of the kit that really grabbed their attention was the produce section. I had each student donate an old vegetable. We then produced a class soup. The kids loved this and they brought along a bread roll to dip in their soup. The flavour of the soup was determined by the veges the kids brought along. Luckily, we had a really good variety. As the term came to an end we didn't get to do the pickling, but it is something I would be keen to do later this year, if time allowed.”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Interactive, hands on, real life experience.

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Very hands on and interactive. We were able to collaborate with another classroom and develop our own specific understanding of what food waste 'really' looked like. Being a hands on kit really gives a fresh persepctive to what we do as a school.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Preserving left over foods - easily!

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

Not at all

Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? That we had a variety of trees that produced edible fruit, that we could have used and saved, instead of going to waste. We then looked further around for Red Zone trees (ChCh) that we could utilise.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? We are starting our own orchard and have recently planted our fruit trees that we will be able to use in the coming years. Education provides opportunities for prevention.

“The kids enjoyed the kit as they were able to create their own recipes and moved in a direction that suited them. Tailored to suit a variety of needs and capabilities in the class!”

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Posted 3 weeks ago

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