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Natasha C
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Children started asking questions that extended their thinking and motivated their curiosity. They are loving being scientists.
What opportunities arose for cross curricular learning while teaching this kit? All parts of this unit were able to be integrated throughout other areas of the curriculum easily so that the unit flowed.
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How successful was this kit in allowing the exploration of energy transformation in your learners?
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How did the components of this kit allow your students to explore the topic of energy transformation? Each component supported children to learn and builkd on different aspects where they were able to make connections and relate to their surroundings.
“This kit was fabulous. The resources were awesome. The children loved the hands on interaction. They were using the scientific language and presenting to other what they had been exploring and finding out.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Sheena
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? With the basic understanding of how circuits work they can now generate ideas for renewable energy sources.
What opportunities arose for cross curricular learning while teaching this kit? My students loved the story which we used in Literacy. We covered measurement when making the playdough in class.
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How did the components of this kit allow your students to explore the topic of energy transformation? It was brilliant. My students made different circuits using the playdough and entered it for our Science fair.
“I was impressed with the kit supplied. The resources both digitally and hardcopy were excellent.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Christian
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? not sure
What opportunities arose for cross curricular learning while teaching this kit? very appropriate as we combined the unit with a trip to MOTAT
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How did the components of this kit allow your students to explore the topic of energy transformation? Nice
“Very useful materials and info”
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Posted 2 years ago
Kate
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? They would want to explore more about energy transformation
What opportunities arose for cross curricular learning while teaching this kit? Science, math, literacy.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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How did the components of this kit allow your students to explore the topic of energy transformation? It allowed them to learn so much about energy tranformation from energy is ability to do work e.g. moving things.
“It was awesome to use these resources! So many cool things to do and even as an activity for releivers!”
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Posted 2 years ago
Saskia O
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I hope to develop a curiosity for how things work. Learning through play and creating new designs.
What opportunities arose for cross curricular learning while teaching this kit? I am looking forward to developing scientific conversations and adding new vocabulary to the children's repertoire. I hope that it will lead to some writing. Maths will also be a component.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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How successful was this kit in allowing the exploration of energy transformation in your learners?
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How did the components of this kit allow your students to explore the topic of energy transformation? TBC
“I did not get the chance to use the kit in 2021 due to the covid restrictions and the many interruptions. However I am really excited to use it in term 1 with my year 2 class.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Jordan P
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Saving energy - an environmental perspective
What opportunities arose for cross curricular learning while teaching this kit? Oral language Literacy - Rube Goldberg machines links to action and consequence Understanding how simple machines work - like our playground spinner Cycles, systems and circuits
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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How successful was this kit in allowing the exploration of energy transformation in your learners?
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How did the components of this kit allow your students to explore the topic of energy transformation? Was able to use lots of basic examples of energy transformation from real life in real time like throwing a ball or lighting a candle. The kit was the jumping off point for this.
“Very engaging -kids loved the play dough Some frustrations when it didn't work the first time but some great opportunities arose for problem solving and perseverance”
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Posted 3 years ago
Denise
Verified Reviewer
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Looking into this
What opportunities arose for cross curricular learning while teaching this kit? Science
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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How successful was this kit in allowing the exploration of energy transformation in your learners?
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How did the components of this kit allow your students to explore the topic of energy transformation? I plan to use this kit in Term 1 instead
“I have not used this kit as I am in an Auckland School and we have not been at school since August”
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Posted 3 years ago
Shannon
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Unfortunately, our long lockdown period has interrupted alot of our learning with this kit but it definitely sparked an interest in different types of energy, how it is transferred and possible experiments that we could've explored.
What opportunities arose for cross curricular learning while teaching this kit? We liked using the dice to support us when asking questions.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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How successful was this kit in allowing the exploration of energy transformation in your learners?
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How did the components of this kit allow your students to explore the topic of energy transformation? The students really enjoyed experimenting with the playdough to create different circuits.
“Our Year 3&;4's really enjoyed the hands on nature of this kit. As we use a lot of reo Māori in our classroom we really appreciated the resources that were Māori also.”
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Posted 3 years ago
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