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

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

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 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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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 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 month 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?

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? 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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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Interactive, easy to use and fun

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? My students were really into this and was suprised by how much waste there is.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Use the left overs, pig buckets, for the farm, compost bins

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? How well the community pantry can be used if used properly

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Was talked about with food tech/ horticulture teacher about making a school compost bin

“This was great for my class. Our students had a nutritionist come in so we could tie in with that well. We talked about different ingredients students created their own recipes using ingredients sent to us in the package. We talked about foods and drinks high in different ingredients and talked about healthy options and when some drinks like Powerade are good for you.”

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Posted 1 month ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? interactive, hands on, creative

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? Good to see what we are doing globally but also at home.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? collecting school food scraps for compost and giving it to the community for their gardens.

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 have a lot of food waste and that a lot of foods can be saved or reused in other ways. Even scraps

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? We've started to look into helping charities with people that need food

“It was a good kit that helped the students to look at ways of reducing food waste. I liked how it looked a different ways of preserving food like brine.”

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

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? It brought it home a bit especially as we had just visited the zero waste zone at our local tip!

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? they just wanted to feed the worms at school all the time!

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? how we could use other things (like old broken things) again for something new

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

“Children loved seeing what we could do with food scraps.”

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Posted 1 month ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, informative, Helpful

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? It was a great way to incorporate national vs global trends and issues. We started off by talking about nutrition and healthy foods which then Segwayed into food waste and that as an issue and why things cost and how cost could be reduced. This lead to ways we can reduce the waste from our school lunches also.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? We had heaps from a pop-up supermarket idea called 'Best Before' to ways we can use left over school lunches to help our community.

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? Not find anything new, it really got them thinking about their own consumption and waste and what can be done at a home and school level

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? We have students currently looking at ways we can better dispose of the leftover lunches

“A fantastic resource. I used this with our 9/10 students around nutrition and food waste and it helped me no end the get the key messages I was requiring the students to learn out there.”

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Posted 1 month ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? interactive, long term, food

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? I think students understood food waste in varying capacities. When we went on our circle walk, we did not find any evidence of food waste, which impacted their understanding of how good gets wasted, even in our community. We spoke about global and larger scale occurrences of food waste but not having any evidence in our neighbourhood probably has skewed their view and understanding.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Pickling fruits!

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? They enjoyed talking about the local community garden, some had seen it and some hadn't. Some were very fascinated when we looked inside the compost and others were grossed out. We have a pātaka kai, but it has recently moved and is no longer in walking distance to our kura, which left a few disappointed.

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

“Overall my students enjoyed this school kit. They particularly enjoyed the good food map and finding their houses on it! The stickers for this task were okay, very dependent on the area your school is in I imagine, and I wish there was an explanation for each of them as we couldn't figure out what some of them meant. I found myself supplementing information on other food waste solutions, which isn't a bad thing, just something to note. We haven't had a chance to eat our pickled foods yet but the kids were keen to pickle fruits as well as vegetables to see what happened!”

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