In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? They had to figure out the best way to problem solve, to work together and to process information.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students wanted to find out more about other New Zealanders and also were interested in the time period.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Everything was there - I didn't need to worry about getting the right items for the projects.

“An absolutely awesome kit. We did it in a single day and it was so good. The students were really engaged. They were disappointed when we had to stop for a team assembly. Even my coolest Year 8 boys thought it was &;mean&;.”

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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 think strategically and outside the box to solve the clues.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The history of some of New Zealand's pioneering women

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I didn't feel like this was a STEM kit as such.

“This is the best kit I have done so far. We spent the day on this kit and all the students thoroughly enjoyed it and some commented on how much attention to detail had been put into it. We all learnt a lot about Jean Batten and about problem solving and resilience! Thank you so much.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The lesson included activities that promoted collaboration and problem solving…for example students worked in teams to decipher codes and find information to receive the next step.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Science: wind, sustainable energy Social Studies/History: other famous New Zealanders, ‘Famous’ local stories (linked to local curriculum) Maths: measurement, co ordinates, weather - direction, mapping

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? The teacher resource guide explains clearly how to deliver the lesson and how to use the resource. This made it easy to deliver a STEM lesson that was fun, engaging and relevant.

“Students loved the resources inside the kit. The lesson was appropriate to the level of the students and kept them interested.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Having to work together to find clues was a great challenge to over come. Team work and developing strategies for getting the plane to fly straight was a great lesson in refining ideas and perseverance.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This really helped me to build my confidence with STEM. I need to do more like this, the kids loved it. We will be introducing more hands on activities around cultural and travel as this is where the kids to hinking is taking us.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I had a few moments of being not sure what to do, but no I be went back to the manual and be was be fine sticking to be the content. I think I should have done all sessions in one day to keep the flow.

“Korimako year 5s Enjoyed the STEM elements of the kits which encouraged some real problem solving to get the buzz planes going. We split the activities over four sessions which segwayed off into studies of different countries and ways of communicating. Great way to spark conversation about then versus now.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Students Learnt through exploration.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Having the kit as a supportive resource to class based lesson was a real confidence booster. It encouraged students to ask questions, inquire and to think outside the box.

“Students found this kit to be very enjoyable. Many students were engaged in hands on learning experiences.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? By making and then adapting both paper planes and buzz planes, students had to think about their goal and how to achieve it.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This kit made me want to overhaul everything that I do and recreate it around hands on experiences like this one. We went on to do procedural writing about paper planes and physics experiments looking at alterations that make them fly better.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I’m generally pretty confident teaching STEM, but this kit made it so much more fun! It inspires me to be more creative in my planning.

“This was by far the coolest school kit I have ever done. Students were instantly engaged, working together to problem solve, and pushing not only their learning, but also their resilience. We all loved it!”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? So much problem solving was in this unit. Students also really had to determine appropriate ways of going about tasks.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? NZ history

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Absolutely, I would love to use it a lot more.

“This was a brilliant kit for my class because of the teamwork and hands on experiences provided. They were so engaged and it was a fun couple of days in class. It provided some of the less academic students to step up and really shine in their own elements which was great to see. Such a lot of work went into the planning of this unit, it was very obvious. Thank you so much!”

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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

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