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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? community waste maps

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Good understanding of food waste as we have an amazing worm farm.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Warm farm

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

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? What they had at home and trying new foods

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

“We have developed our Enviro garden and looked into gardens around our community and our own.”

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Posted 6 days ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Exciting, Engaging and wanting more

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Spoke and looked more into local waste as in community and how we all look after the community

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? N/A

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Kai stands and more donations coming into schools, local supplies donating kiwifruit, oranges

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Yes as we have now completed our gardens so each Hub can start their own Garden to Table programme when ready

“Great resource with lessons plans easy to adapt or change. As an Enviroschools I was able to take it a bit further and look at food scraps and bring it in to sustainabilty across the school.”

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Posted 1 week ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Eye-opening, Inspiring, Fun

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? This was our main focus and the students were thoroughly engaged

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Only cooking what you are going to eat and using your freezer more

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? The interview cards created a lot of interesting conversations

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

“My students (year 7) were thoroughly engaged with this kit. They loved interviewing family and friends. We did not cover all the lessons in the kit but created content of our own to complement what was included.”

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Posted 1 week ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Local, meaningful, connecting

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Opened or eyes around waste and our role

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Trying to connect green waste to people with animals that would consume it!

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? The number of fruit trees around our neighbourhood!

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

How did the activity help students make connections between circuit theory and real-world applications? Introducing our kids to circuit theory was the first step and seeing the connections that came from it.

“Connecting our Kura and our local community was heaps of fun. Finding where the secret fruit trees and kai that kids knew about from their travels around the local environment. Identifying food waste examples and ways we could address these. Connecting some of our local food heroes in our community with kids to take action and create.”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? discovery, challenging perceptions

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? It helped them understand that things need to improve here as well as around the world and that people around the world have different challenges and ways of living , they also learnt that change needs to start with how we do things first before tackling the global issues.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Having a food swap or communal meals at school or at the local community centre

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

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? A lot were unaware of the food manufacturing plant in the community, they were challenged by the way they waste food themselves too.

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

How did the activity help students make connections between circuit theory and real-world applications? it reinforced the place-based learning I often do with my students to make connections of the learning to the real world.

“A kit of discovery about what is actually happpening in your backyard and around the world.”

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Posted 3 weeks ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Thoughtful, creative, interesting

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? We were able to explore food waste within our households, and link this to global food waste - which also linked in well with our report writing topic of global issues.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Animal feeding, making new recipes

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Different uses for food scraps, led to some discussions with families

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? No, but it linked in well with our Enviro School practices.

How did the activity help students make connections between circuit theory and real-world applications? Linked in well to recipes/cooking

“Good Food Map was a fantastic activity set, and fit beautifully with our Food for Thought programme, as an extension.”

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Posted 3 weeks ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Design Evaluate Recipes

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Quite effective, it needs reinforcing

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? We try to use the scraps (e.g carrot tops, top stringy part of leeks etc) to make vegetable stock and give the scraps to pigs!

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

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? The children notice lots of rubbish on the floor, sadly.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? It will, I'm sure

How did the activity help students make connections between circuit theory and real-world applications? Not yet, insufficient time

“It was great fun making pickles with the children. A nice assortment of materials and ingredients in the box to design recipes (e.g. which reduce waste) and evaluate what they've done (ie. most favourite, least favourite). We enjoyed this kit but preferred the absolutely fabulous 'make a healthy muffin' kit available a couple of years ago even more (it provided a basic recipe for a muffin, supplied ingredients and a gift card to buy alternative healthy ingredients). We got children to work in groups to adapt the recipe as the kit suggested. The kids LOVED it as they love muffins, it taught them about how to make something healthier and gave them the science between what each ingredient did in a fun way! Bring this kit back, please!”

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Posted 3 weeks ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Very well done

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Yes they are very aware of it but find a lot of it is out of their control.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Composting

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

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? they are more aware of community gardens

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Yes, we do a a lot of vegetable garens at school

How did the activity help students make connections between circuit theory and real-world applications? it was great having an extra resource

“The students found it very interesting.”

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Posted 3 weeks ago