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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? This kit supported earlier learning from X-Man in regards to composting and growing our own produce onsite at school. They were able to relate a lot of what this kit discussed to enviro learning and sustainability. My class also wanted to create posters

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The future learning will be to see if we can use the produce that is grown and make our own soups. Ideally, it would be great to have specific classes assigned to particular gardens or particular produce to look after. New World Little Gardents also broug

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? My class became aware of how growing vegetables from seed form can be very rewarding to watch. Many students had a sense of 'nurturing' towards the seedlings and would visit the garden bed where we had planted many of the seeds. From this kit I have had t

“My class loved this kit. They enjoyed the concept of having to submit a nomination form in order to be a member of the Little Garden League. It was surprising how they took this very seriously. The game supplied in the kit was well received. When students learnt of their membership in the League, they would then start planting their seeds and took on the responsibilities that follow to ensure the seedlings will survive.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? works in well with te whare tapa wha

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? just because it says it good - is it really building a community garden

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? we wanted to know when healthy becomes unhealthy - for instance did a work up on museli and some were worse than eating 2 toffee pops

“we used the kits to work on veges/ fruit healthy not we wanted to know whenhealthy become unhealthy”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We were able to provide the students with opportunities throughout our curriculum especially as invitations for Learning Through Play

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The students became much more interested in plants and biology through this kit

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The students learnt about the effort that goes into growing fruit and vegetables

“The students really enjoyed this kit. They loved taking care of the plants.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Science, literacy, art

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Lots more about the needs of plants. How things grow etc

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Learning that vegetables contain things our bodies need to be healthy

“I had happy engaged children that loved learning about healthy vegetables and watching things grow. My class particularly enjoyed cracking the codes and reading the secret messages.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? It didn’t

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Probably will not access this resource again

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? It didn’t

“Did not really like the resource at all”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We did writing and reading, but mostly science as we looked at the changes in the garden

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Next year we will continue to look at our garden and the changes in each season.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The children were excited to talk about vegetables and some of them said they tried new ones at home, lake radishes.

“The children really enjoyed getting the kit and the secret messages. They were so excited to look in the mailbox each day. Our vegetables are doing well in the garden!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We used key competencies to help us with working together and sharing responsibility for each other and our environment. Writing was used with the letters and we increased our vocabulary knowledge and awareness of plants.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? In order for us to expand our knowledge of healthy eating, I think it would be good to learn how to compost our plant waste. This would have been a better project for term 3 too, to have time for the plants to grow into edible plants.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The students learned about plants they had never heard of before. It gave us chances to read more about these foods and how we could enjoy them. We also had a lot of conversations about preferences in foods. This made kids curious to try what their friend

“This was a wonderful resource for our students. They really enjoyed writing letters to become members and they loved the badges. Planting was also fun and especially getting to see our plants grow!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? I feel that the kit was great for science, Garden to Table, health and also feed into our Unit of Inquiry of the importance of water as a resource.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Planting and growing food for our families, Seasons of growing food and also companion planting. Fruit and vege break at school discussing why children need nutrients from these this how it feeds thier brain and blood etc. Water unit- how we use it and ho

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Knowing what vegetables do for our body, Why they are important! How to grow food and share what they enjoy about eating healthy.

“The children loved the lead in to the kit. Introducing the story and wee characters and applying to become a member go them interested. We loved all the resources that were available to assist our learning and interest. Once the children were given the seedlings and we started to process of growing it was wonderful to see the seedlings growing each day and how they first grow. What we needed to do each day to help them- We discussed a lot how this was similar to humans needs. We used this kit along side our garden to table programme in our school too. we love that the packaging was sustainable also!”

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