In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The variety of questions/problems, and the collaborative aspects to this kit... also found it was a good idea to give the children a little background knowledge prior to starting.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Children were really into the different communication methods, keen to create their own codes as a result of this. Reading maps and using an atlas was another.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Definitely enjoyable! I think one of the main things for me was knowing everything I needed was provided, I didn't have to race out at the last minute to buy resources to complete a task (which is what usually happens, or we improvise!)

“Absolutely brilliant, I will re use what I can in the future from this kit. Children loved it, I loved it... so much new learning took place and it was great to see such creative opportunities for collaborative problem solving. Thank you for providing such a fantastic resource!”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? we followed steps and instructions, they enjoyed the hands on activities. We completed the learning with a lot of teacher direction

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I would like to look at this further. None of my class had heard of Jean Batten. We had some great discussions. communication, escape and semaphore learning was a real highlight. I think that the bristlebots needed to be more - our seniors purchased more

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Stem teaching was great and it is excellent to see the various ways that integration can occur in a meaningful context.

“This was a great resource that I simplified down and adapted for my lower level learners. Our senior school had also completed this resource in great detail so I integrated it into our literacy programme and just picked a few things from it.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Had to work together to solve tasks.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Science circuits. Slide show presentation. History around women and how countries fought for land.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I worked through the kit at home first. From buzz planes the students want to learn more about circuits.

“What a great unit. The students worked through all the tasks. At the end we reflected on how much we had learnt and all the activities. They even wanted to make slides about their learning. Our talks went off track as to why countries grew and shrunk. Really interesting”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The different approaches to learning- particularly the hands on tasks were appreciated.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We will be looking into more prominent NZ women next term. Thank you so much for the inspiration!

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Initially it was a little daunting as it can be hard to teach to someone else’s planning. The booklet was concise and well set-out, so after a little reading, the vision for learning was clear.

“Wht ana amazing kit! It was such a treat to discover and work though. The children were engaged throughout the entire process and now have a sound knowledge of an important New Zealander who otherwise, would have remained completely unknown to them. Thank you so much, School Kit!”

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Posted 3 years ago

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“Really enjoyed this kit. Great discussion and variety.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The mystery of it all sparked interest which led to using strategic thinking to solve the various puzzles/challenges presented to students. Students had to work together and gaining something (ie a piece of the medal puzzle) increased the motivation to th

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The knowledge and the confidence to create our challenges like this based on our local curriculum needs. This kit also created a spark of interest about other strong New Zealand women role models.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? It was great to have all the resources created and supplied. The Teacher Guide was incredibly useful and doing the challenge with the students in this way has led to more ideas of how to do our own ones that we could link to our local curriculum.

“This kit was jam-packed with all kinds of resources - everything you need to provoke wonder and engagement with students.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Groups had to spend time thinking and talking about a task, not just rushing off and giving it a go. Different ideas and approaches from different group members had to be discussed and thought through.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We integrated a writing aspect - looked at how to write a biography. We used Jean Batten as our class model for this activity and then students individually chose a famous New Zealander to complete their own biographies on.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I enjoyed the cross curricular approach, the opportunities it gave students to work together. I liked how their were different pathways to solve particular tasks.

“The activities in this kit were highly motivating. Students had to work together to solve the different sections, lots of communicating and talking with each other. There was genuine excitement when groups were successful. It was also a fantastic context to discover more about the life of an amazing New Zealander.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The kit promotes strategic thinking through its inquiry based questions and tasks.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Science based inquiry learning

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? This kit continues to build onto my already teacher based experience with stem Projects. Overall really enjoyed this kit.

“Most students enjoyed this kit. Some students needed more prompting, but once more unpacking was done, students were able to independently complete the range of different tasks.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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