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Jean Batten Treasure Hunt 21 Reviews

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Kathryn
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Through developing and modifying ideas
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Flight and aerodynamics
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How successful was this kit in developing students' strategic thinking?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I love teaching STEM through inquiry and had built this kit in with our STEM week focus however STEM was cancelled due to COVID lockdowns. A lot of info to read and organise so it needs time.
“The kit itself was excellent however it would have been great to have it at the end of the term so I could go through it over the holidays and hit the ground running with it rather than getting it term 3 to teach term 3. I needed to buy extra equipment and that all takes time.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Jennifer
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? It enabled them to synthesise the information and work on summarising.
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Lots of interest in historic figures from around New Zealand
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? We love STEM learning!
“Great kit that had the ākonga thinking and researching. Opened up a lot of questioning and curiosity.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Fiona
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? They had to work together and listen to others.
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It linked in with our rocket projects and the learning support this. It is made a few of my students think about other New Zealanders who are famous and our history
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How successful was this kit in developing students' strategic thinking?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Yes it has developed my confidence in using STEM
“Was a great kit. The class really enjoyed and also linked in nicely with our rocket project.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Alex
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Lots of connections, problem solving. Group work was awesome.
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Fantastic literacy opportunities. Texts audio movies all great add ons!
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How successful was this kit in developing students' strategic thinking?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I was somewhat worried with the instructions and content. Definitely challenging my comfort zone but in saying that it is great to do things that I do not have expertise in.
“Wow! What an amazing experience for our students. Thank you soooo much!”
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Posted 3 years ago
Alice
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? This kit encouraged strategic thinking in many ways in particular the flight activity.
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Kids were keen to research more about Jean Batten. Also more experimental paper flights were conducted.
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How successful was this kit in developing students' strategic thinking?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I feel more confident using STEM as it was easy to see that incorporating it into daily class life doesn't have to be elaborate.
“This kit was great running along side out Jean Batten reading assignment. The students particularly enjoyed the paper plane flight activity and may laughs were had. The kit was easy go set up and understand which was great.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Marsha
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Code cracking. Working with team mates to find solutions to puzzles. Following instructions and thinking about Jean Batten's journey and reflecting on her achievements.
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Working as a team to solve problems and achieve a goal. Thinking outside the box. Reflecting on another persons life journey.
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How successful was this kit in developing students' strategic thinking?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Absolutely loved it! I do have to admit I needed to read through the instructions several times and do a little background research but it was all worth it. The ideas that other teachers shared in the group chat were so helpful and really added lots more
“This kit was amazing! My class worked through the tasks over two days and absolutely loved it. They were so engaged and were keen to due further research and learning about Jean Batten and her adventures. The resources provided were really fun and easy to use.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Rona
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? It allowed students to think outside the box and collaborate together to problem solve, rely on clues and make inferences.
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Setting scenes and allowing my students the ability to work backwards from an end product by synthesizing and proving their theories correct.
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How successful was this kit in developing students' strategic thinking?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? This kit allowed me to start thinking about how I can plan integrated tasks that allow my students the ability to use STEM as a way to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of concepts.
“My classroom were highly engaged in this kit. They enjoyed connecting their own knowledge along with using clues to problem solve, whilst challenging each others responses.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Jo
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The student's enjoyed the team work needed and the challenges of solving the codes. They had to do a lot of strategic thinking when doing the Mayday Challenge, working together to problem solve when their strategy did not work. Some teams were also able t
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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Very Effective
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We used this kit as a springboard into our report writing unit about famous New Zealanders. Many of the children have chosen to find out more about Jean Batten and write their report on her.
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How successful was this kit in developing students' strategic thinking?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? The electronic portion of this kit (buzz planes) was fantastic - so simple but effective. It's not an area I am that confident with so having experience with a simple example was great. I would definitely feel more confident attempting something like this
“We loved this unit - the resources provided were top quality and the students were very engaged with the variety of activities. It was a great way to start our writing unit on Famous New Zealanders.”
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Posted 3 years ago
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