In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The students had to work together to problem solve, some of the clues made the students really think and work together.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The inclusion of STEM activities being linked into our classroom more easily. Thanks schoolkit for giving me the push to include this more frequently in my teaching.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? This kit was a great way to develop my own STEM teaching and learning. Providing fun and easy ways to incorporate it into our class programme.

“This was an amazing school kit. It was full of awesome engaging activities for our learners. Great collaboration and team work as well as learning all about an awesome NZ figure. The students loved making the buzz planes, however having a large class the number of buzz planes to students ratio was not enough. Unfortunately since it was a fiddly task some of our students zoned out and let other team members do all of it. They were so excited at the end to receive their own badges like Jean Batten. Overall such a good kit with awesome resources.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Working together as a group, solving aspects to move on to the next.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Researching other famous nzers.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Loved it! I do a lot of STEM in class and this helped hone my skills and further expand my student's.

“Fantastic kit! So much variety and engagement. The STEM aspect was much appreciated by my students. The scavenger hunt aspect was well done and the clues were the perfect amount of difficult Hardly any prior knowledge with my students and by the end they had learned heaps about this awesome New Zealander.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Students had to use trial and error for paper plane activity and to solve the coded clues. They had to determine the best way to communicate information to team members using semaphore and ships flags. Following instructions accurately was required for co

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The buzz plane was a real hit. Students have since explored circuits with batteries and alligator clip wires to light bulbs and to make buzzers work.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I already felt reasonably confident but having the equipment pre- prepared and provided made this easy . It can be time consuming to find and gather things together so having kits like this is a real bonus.

“This was a great kit that my Y7 class really enjoyed. The variety of activities kept them engaged and working in teams meant that they shared skills and collaborated. Due to Auckland lockdown we completed this kit under modified conditions, half the class at a time on alternated days. It was a fantastic, fun activity for them as we came back to school. They liked the escape room theme.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The cracking the codes allowed them to work together using their previous knowledge - team work thinking! The Mayday cards was a hit with the children - so many different solutions offered.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? A lot of discussion about flight - developed the class's knowledge further with this aspect. Also some looked at the changes in fashion (we had a dress up suitcase available with 1930's style clothes), changes in technology and changes in attitudes toward

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? It is fantastic to have everything planned out and the resources at your finger tips.

“A wide variety of activities to involve the Year4/5 class. Easily adapted for the many different learning abilities. Some activities could be completed as a class others could be done as small groups. A high interest topic with a range of other resources which could be intergrated to enhance it. Great to have a get your students ready section.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The idea of solving clues and rather than competing with other teams, but having to pair up and work together i thought was great as many of my students can get competitive while having little resilience. We also practiced the game of battle ships to

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The kids wanted to learn more about Jean Batten, they (and other teachers) wanted to have another go at the buzz planes, and I had so many kids who loved the code cracking. Also a huge boost for our key competencies and collaborative teamwork.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I loved it as a teacher with a passion for and background in science this was great- it tied in so well with maths learning and also social studies (and literacy of course).

“I thought the Jean Batten kit was wonderful and even though I have a year 5-6 class with a range of abilities and coping skills we successfully completed the kit (did lots of prep reading about Jean and practicing the required codes of communication as suggested and this worked well). My kids were so engaged and were thrilled to get their badges at the end. The kit initially was quite intimidating with the level of detail. One thing that could be helpful would be PDF files of the Code keys (A4 size) and printable sets of the naval flags to use for code communication practice. I found one set online but it wasn't ideal.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Think outside the box

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More STEM

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I enjoyed learning and feel more confident

“Was a great pack and initiated lots of collaboration”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? I think especially with the puzzle challenges and morse code and building of the buzz plane, students had to think a lot about working out the answers and not always getting the answer right the first time around.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We initially did this as a hook for our Famous New Zealanders writing unit which worked really well. Subsequently many students chose to investigate more about Jean Batten. Also other learning opportunities for electronics and other STEM activities in the

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Hugely enjoyable, the kids loved it. Definitely had students excited from one challenge to the next with many students saying "is there going to be another challenge?"and with the reply of "yipeeee!". Thank you for providing such an incredible and well re

“The kit was awesome! Our kids loved it. From the hook of a suitcase arriving by our principal to open, completing challenges, working together, solving puzzles, learning morse code there were endless opportunities for our tamariki to engage in STEM activities.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The kids thought more deeply about how different society influences could have changed the outcomes from Jean, this also had a good peer pressure aspect when we go the books out of the library on her also.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I would take parts of this to incorporate into our Histories part of the curriculum

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I love a good STEAM learning. The kit was well resourced and supported with my class working in the science lab

“An amazing kit. The kids learnt a lot about our National Treasure. The mapping work really supported our Social Science Focus this year. The kids were amazed at how many 1st Jean had.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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