What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Effective engaging well resourced

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? It really made my students think about food waste with both lenses on. Both as a local issue and a global one and they were really able to see the links.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Worm farms for the local community made compulsory! A worm takeover. Give a pig to every family and feed them the waste.

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

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Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Lots of food goes to waste in our own homes but it was our school community and our local community where we had the biggest problem.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Resurrected the food compost bins and working on ways to make that sustainable and the what next.

“We enjoyed this resource. It was great to reflect on our local and wider community food waste and think about how we could reuse some of that waste.”

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Posted 4 days ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, challenging, worthwhile

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? This was a good area for developing understanding

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Using food that we normally use as scraps for making really yummy food.

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? How many food locations there were!

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? not yet - we already have a garden to table classroom - so a lot of the learning was a double up for us. But good for our leaders to be a part of it.

“You do have to be aware of the amount of food required for some of the activities - so Term 1 is a great term to do this with a lot of summer vegies available. We enjoyed hunting around our town for places to do with food. there was a lot in our town.”

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Posted 1 week ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging. Interactive. Explorative.

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? They gained better understanding of what local food waste charities are around and how we can better reduce our food waste.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Donating food waste to the school composting pile and using the compost to help feed the community garden. Creating different soups with leftover veggies.

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 hadn't realised how many different local food sources there were, and iniatives that helped use food waste.

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

“We found the kit to be enagaing and informative, allowing us to explore ideas around food in our local area and connecting it to our food and nutrition focus for the first part of the term.”

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Posted 1 week ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Practical, engaging, cooperative

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? We focused more on the local food production

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? We enjoyed cooking with the food we'd grown at school.

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 realised that the school had everything on site so lots of stickers over the school!

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Not really, it's a big school and the canteen runs separately

“This was good for introducing practical solutions into a classroom”

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Posted 1 week ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging / Interactive / Imaginative

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? The videos were great, getting them to think about what they do at home with leftovers and then linking to what happens locally with food waste.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? They weren't too creative as we didn't have much time to spend on this.

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 weren't really aware of where rubbish went and enjoyed learning about the different ways people are helped with leftover and for what reasons people in need are given these.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Maybe tying some pickling into food tech or the Enviroschools group with whatever they grow.

“The kit followed on nicely this term from our previous focus in Term 3 - Healthy Eating / Nutrition. The idea of food waste linked nicely and it was great to link specifically to our local community. The children were really engaged with the map and locating food places they had been to. The 60 minute walk was fun to narrow this down and the students were motivated to write the poem. The students really loved finding and identifying local food heroes. I would love to have made soup but the pickling tied in nicer this term.”

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Posted 1 week ago

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

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? The realisation of the vast amount of food being wasted, not only in NZ, was interesting to observe

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? To have a food pantry at our school, to plan meals ahead so they don't buy unnecessarily

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? Lots of fruit trees that they simply hadn't noticed when driving past. Walking made things more visible

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

“This kit is a great way to get students to think differently about food. it encourages them to consider what is growing in their neighbourhoods, how that might be shared, and what a precious t=resource our food is.”

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Posted 1 week ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Resources, interesting, practical

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? It supported them in understanding more about food waste.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Students needed quite a lot of support with this, as a Year 4/5 class it may have been better suited to Yr5/6

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? Lots of students talked about their local stores and food places, they find out more about those that were working sustainably

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Less plastic rubbish waste, and careful thinking about what is feed to the chickens.

“This was a great spark for my class and for our learning around healthy eating. It was quite specific, so it would be necessary to have this prior to planning your unit around healthy eating/food. Then this could be used to base it off.”

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Posted 1 week ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, hands on, Informative

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? The resource was brilliant at connecting the dots between individual actions and global statistics. We started the unit by auditing the school's general waste and compost bins, providing tangible local data.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? We never got to finish this task to publish but students but students started to run marketing campaigns to inform others of the importance of healthy eating. Something we are going to build on the next time we do this unit.

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? During the community mapping exercise, students were tasked with identifying local food sources, both commercial and public. The students were able to make many connections as alot have farming backgrounds or live on a farm.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? As a school it has confirmed to us the importance of providing fruit to our classes, as we have noticed that alot of students have very little or done at all in their lunch boxes. We are looking at ways to better inform our community of healthy eating options.

“Great unit which motivated my students to think critically about their health choices and the environmental impact of their food consumption. 8/10”

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Posted 1 week ago

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