In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Students had to work though tasks in small teams to achieve their goal of finding solutions through cracking codes and solving problems. The provided resources made it all more authentic looking and engaging. Also great to have both hands on and digital c

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We also tied in our Key Competencies and school values more by looking at the skills and dispositions we thought Jean Batten demonstrated and I can see myself using it to link into our 'Careers' unit next term - how careers/jobs change over time and how o

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Loved it! I made sure I kept a step ahead of the students and did the pre-reading on the school kit site. I had also made bristle bots before so was confident to make the buzz planes. Therefore overall, my confidence in STEM teaching and learning has incr

“Thoroughly enjoyed working through every task as directed in this kit. It was perfectly levelled for my Year 7 & 8 class with a great mixture of challenges and fun - collaborative and independent activities.The escape room style of STEM learning was highly engaging and relevant to our Term 3 theme of 'Connections' (Nz History). Every student proudly wore their badge at the end of it. Thanks School Kit and Office Max!”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Fitting pieces of the task together and working with others.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We have been learning about War and the tools that were used, so it was a neat project to finish the inquiry with. We are currently moving into a Science based inquiry of student choice; Law and Principles of Science and Nature or Innovations and their im

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? The enjoyment from the students made teaching the content easier. It did take some time to get your head around the content in the planning stage.

“A great interactive way of learning. Students loved the hands on tasks and the mystery aspect!”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Communication, collaborating and getting creative!

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The escape room element was well loved and quite a few kids went to research more about Jean Batten as they were fascinated by her story!

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? It gave me a new perspective for teaching stem through escape rooms!

“This was a really cool and interactive escape room, the kids loved it and were very engaged with the tasks! It took me bit to wrap my head around the directions but once I did that it was pretty straight forward. The only thing with 30 in my class it was bit much with 5 in a group. They were all competing with each other to have a turn etc... Overall, I really loved the kit!”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? It helped some students - others just "piggy-backed"off the thinking of their group members.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It linked in well with our maths learning for measurement.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I enjoy STEM

“The kit was a little difficult to understand how to run the escape room, especially as I haven't done one myself before.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? They followed the instructions/process and problem solved to get the circuits to work.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We used some of the spare parts (lightbulbs) to explore other circuits through different medium like lemons and playdough.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? It was great to have all the equipment needed handy and ready to go - made it so much more accessible and easier to teach.

“The learners really enjoyed creating the electrical circuits. The buzzers didn't really make any sound that we could hear which made it hard.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? They had to work in groups to problem solve clues and ideas to move forward in their quest.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We already have a Flight unit that engages students and this was a perfect NZ example to link it to what students know and to ground it as relevant to their background.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Great supplement for the Flight unit we already do.

“We received our kit in Term 3 so it was disrupted by Covid Lockdown but it was still something we could adapt and use most of in an online context.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Problem solving, cracking codes, test and make improvements to paper planes, team work, taking turns. The jumping task and getting their buzz planes to go in the right direction really pushed their strategic thinking.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are going to explore the principles of flight next and students

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I feel much more confident to integrate STEM learning experiences within my planning. I was a bit stuck with some of the teaching instructions as minimal information was given so I had to work out what to do (eg the flags for code task)

“And excellent unit with a wide variety of tasks that developing extend students thinking and problem-solving abilities. And addition to the planned learning, was the fact that students recognised the importance of continuing to set goals and push yourself to do more. When Jean Batten achieved her goal, she did not continue in the same manner. We started our Kit early Term 3 so revisited what we had done after lockdown and continued. We had made our paper planes then went into lockdown so it was great to hve that to come back to to reengage students.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Collaboration, creativity were the main focus. Most tasks had an element of this.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Children carried on and thought of ways to showcase their hero!

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Totally a great example and showed support of how yo teach STEM thinking.

“This kit fitted in perfectly with our Heroes / Heroines unit. We used it as a tuning in activity - it really engaged the students and the activities were varied and suited all the different learners! A huge win and one of the most memorable kits! Thanks to all those involved and of course a huge thumbs up to our sponsors!”

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Posted 3 years ago

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