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

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? This kit was good for my high fliers and the children were engaged by the escape room element so it allowed them to develop their strategic thinking when they actually completed the room. They did need a lot of scaffolding up until that point though.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? They enjoyed the escape room element so I would look at doing something around that again.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I am a big advocate for STEM learning however I didn't enjoy this kit very much. For my students it required A LOT of learning prior to taking on the escape room and I was a bit put off initially as I struggled to interpret the teaching plan.

“Initially I found this kit quite hard to implement. I've used School Kit a lot in the past and this kit took me the longest to understand. I just wasn't quite sure how to start and there were lots of steps to follow and 'tick off'.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? I used mixed ability groups for this and this helped develop communication and strategic thinking as they worked together.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We split this up anyway. we did 3 weeks mixed ability readings on Flying before we started and we continued to refer back to this unit with our students. Going forwards we will link this in with other female pioneers, Jane Goodall for our team 4 science u

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I enjoyed working it all out too, especially when the little wires on the buzz motors kept coming off completely. We had to use our initiative!

“We really enjoyed the kit once we got going. We were interrupted by lockdown but we made it work.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Apologies for the late feedback but we were finishing this when Lockdown occurred again! Lots of perserverance and risk taking involved with all the tasks, especially the buzz planes. We got some help from our big buddies at school who supported us. (Whi

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are now quite interested in Famous NZers so I am thinking in Term 4 we will have some opportunites to look at Famous NZers, particularly with a historical sense.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I learnt that it is helpful to actually DO (or research) everything beforehand, especially with younger students. Having artefacts is also a great motivator. Using what you have already (and adapting) rather than searching for new things online. It was gr

“The Jean Batten Kit was quite a tricky one for my Year 4 students. I had to adapt it quite a bit and find additional bits and pieces as well.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Solving and following the clues allowed students to develop a different way to look and think about how to approach problems. It helped build confidence in my students who generally have self doubt about their ability thrived in finding the hidden clues a

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It has helped develop a real passion for my students to discover about historic New Zealand figures as well as the changes and advances in technology.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? It provided me with a really good format to attempt to creat my own STEM based teaching and learning.

“This school kit was amazingly engaging for both myself and my students. A real highlight was the paper planes and Morse code activities.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? children loved the challenge aspect of the activities and the collaboration of working in groups/teams to try and beat the other teams.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We had hoped to visit the Airforce museum in Chch but Covid put a stop to this.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Easy to follow STEM activities and so much fun! Yes it makes me want to do more.

“We enjoyed this kit, the knowledge and the STEM challenges. We didn't use this kit until the end of Term 3 and still have a little bit to continue with in Term 4.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Students were able to self manage and work collaboratively to develop a deeper I defstanding

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students had the opportunity to branch off and determine other ways the resources could be utilised and different ideas that could stem from it

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? This kit helped make STEM teaching more enjoyable and helped students engage as I wasn’t trying to figure it out as I went along

“The kids loved this kit. The quality of resources and the discoveries the class made while participating in this kit were invaluable and provided me with a lot of info about the students beyond the normal curriculum stuff.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? My higher ability learners had the confidence to give the challenges a wack, others did not want to attempt them meaningfully.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? As a formative assessment, my students need more experience with working collaboratively and trying to do hard things.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I'm interested in continuing to develop my understanding of how to teach STEM and collaboration skills.

“Some of my students found this really tough, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. We all expanded our knowledge of Jean Batten as well as our map reading and problem solving skills. The buzz planes engaged a different cohort of learners compared with the puzzle challenges.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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