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Jean Batten Treasure Hunt 21 Reviews

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Nikki W
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Working together as a team, assigning roles to make tasks easier on the team
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Biography writing
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Loved the problem solving and "escape room"aspect to the kit. Learners loved the hands-on "things"given in the kit.
“My year 7 & 8 learners loved this kit. None of them had heard about Jean Batten prior to starting and they are all passionate about her being a NZ hero now. I loved how hands-on this kit was and the level of communication and collaboration that was needed to be successful. This kit allowed learners to partake in activities that they had never done before and the resources really hocked them in. In the end, a bunch of learners went on to write biographies about Jean Batten and other aviation heros.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Ruby
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Students had to work together to solve problems.
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Lots of awesome conversations came out of this kit. It got students using lots of team work and problem solving skills. We all loved it!
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How successful was this kit in developing students' strategic thinking?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I feel more confident in teaching stem in my class. It was a good experience
“This was really fun and the students loved completing it!”
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Posted 3 years ago
Gill
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? They had to work together and listen to each other’s ideas. When something didn’t work the needed to work together to see where they had gone wrong and try again.
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? That there are different types of codes you can use to send messages, the use of circuits and being able to extend on their thinking from the plane activity.
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I love teaching STEM but this was so much easier with everything in the kit ready to go I didn’t have to go hunting for anything as it was already in there.
“Absolutely loved this kit - one of the best I’ve done, and I’ve done a few! So exciting I didn’t take enough photos as I was so involved with the students! My students were fully engaged in this right from the start. We had lots of fun working out the clues, especially the Morse code, and they had a blast making the paper planes and trying to land on the targets.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Stephanie
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Their strategic thinking was challenged the whole way through the kit, from working out the whereabouts of their code from the clues in the blue box to figuring out how to communicate through their given code. I strategically gave my lower learners the Na
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? After the buzz planes we talked about how we could've made them more successful - if we didn't have the breakages the children would've tried to adapt the planes using their knowledge gained. There is a lot in this kit that I can take away and use in othe
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I love teaching electricity, so it was great to see the buzz plane in action. It has made me think about what other simple equipment that we could use to teach these concepts. We didn't manage to get them to go in a straight line, but the children enjoyed
“This kit was very interesting for the children to complete. They had to work cooperatively together for the tasks to be successful.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Fredrick
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? NA
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Na.
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Na.
“Nothing wrong with the pack! We weren’t able to utilise it as COVID disrupted our year.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Nairi
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Na
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Future female aviators
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How successful was this kit in developing students' strategic thinking?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I teach steam already but loved having the higher level activities for this inquiry
“We loved doing all the learning behind the Jean Batten Kit. Unfortunately due to being in lockdown twice the children never got to do the actual challenges. We went into lockdown the second time the day before our challenge was set. From the kit though we loved the provocation, flying through the balloons, the code crackers and the making of the aircrafts. Such a full kit with lots of learning that went on in order to be able to do it.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Leah
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? It was pitched at the right level. The complexity of ideas prompted questions and further research
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Research and posters!
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How successful was this kit in developing students' strategic thinking?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Step by step instructions and the overall enjoyment from students. The effort is worth the results!
“Absolutely loved it!”
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Posted 3 years ago
Warwick
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Teams had to work methodically and strategically in order to solve the challenges.
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It has prompted questions about other kiwi icons/legends/heroes/pioneers etc.
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How successful was this kit in developing students' strategic thinking?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? The Buzz planes certainly generated lots of discussion ands questions about electricity and motors.
“We really enjoyed using the Jean Batten kit, although we "flipped"the way in which we used it a little, as some of the instructions were quite difficult for our groups to follow. We did enjoy the various decoding challenges and learnt lots of new skills (morse code etc). One thing that could have been improved (although I understand cost would be a factor) was the ratio of buzz plane kits, as it meant each group was much bigger making if more difficult for everyone to have some "hands-on"involvement. Overall, it was an engaging way to learn a lot about an often forgotten Kiwi icon.”
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Posted 3 years ago
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