How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Healthy active learning, Te reo, Science

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Different items were appearing in lunch boxes as students became more aware of other options available.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? A big impact, we were able to purchase some seeds that we planted from the supermarket and taste them at school. We are waiting for some of the seasonal ones to be available in the supermarket so that we can taste them also - I have 22 children spying on

“Children very engaged however only 8 plants sprouted, very disappointing for the students. Our buddy class started their seeds about 2 weeks later from some supplies given to our kura from our local New World and pretty much all of theirs sprouted through. We are unsure as to why all of ours didn't germinate however it created further questions.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

Neutral

Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Art, writing and science

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We have been able to relate it back to our school lunches and talk about all the vegetables in the meals

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Having the visuals was great for our tamariki

“We had two kits in our school so we combined them and used them for a specialist group. Kids loved it.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We are learning the names of veggies in Te Reo too. We plan to do a survey about which veggies we like the best, but this might be next term now.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They are spotting different veggies in each other's lunchboxes and this encourages other children to bring veggies for brain food.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? A big impact and also it will help next term when we start our Garden to Table unit and actually get out into our veggie garden at school to plant veggies - they have more of an idea now what they want to plant.

“My class and I loved the way the kit was introduced - very exciting, especially the letters to post into the postbox. Although the postbox took quite a bit of time to make! The class also loved the veg match game and want to play it often. It got the class talking about different veggies and sharing stories of what they grow at home and what they like / don't like to eat. They loved the badges and many are wearing them every day and spotting children from other classes wearing them too. We are now waiting for our first seedlings to sprout. So, very successful.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We have included the Little Garden Kit as part of our Term Inquiry Hauora Kai. We have written about healthier eating, 5+ a day, improving lunchboxes, read lots of vegetable stories, learned vegetable songs and poems and done vegetable art.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? It has been integral in helping to improve student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating through an integrated Inquiry based Hauora Kai studey over Term 3.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The seedlings themselves were quite difficult to identify initially but along with the use of Google students have all improved their knowledge and ability to identify vegetable plants.

“Little Garden Kit”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

Neutral

Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Supported their learning in their Science class with Climate Change and organisms so that they understanding was more rich because it was across more than 1 classroom.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Very positive attitude towards how they can eat their vegetables!

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? This wasn't a focus of our teaching but the students learnt about a diverse range of vegetables that they hadn't seen or eaten before.

“I teach a class of year 9 aged students who all have learning support needs and who are learning at level 2-3 of the NZC. We used the little gardens as an activity to support our unit topic about sustainability after the students have been learning about the devastation that the Palm Oil industry has on our planet. Planting their seeds and watching them grow has reinforced their understanding about how to work towards solutions and individual/collective action. They had heaps of fun and have been buzzing about taking their gardens home to show their whānau!”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We transferred our learning into our writing as we did information reports on the different vegetables. We also used a bar chart to record how long it took for each plant to sprout and compare them to others that had the same plant. Did it sprout at the

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We incorporated this into our Health for what is a healthy lunch box. We discussed each vegetable and if they had tried them or not, if they did not we tried them in class. This was quite interesting and very funny at times. I absolutely loved this resou

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? They loved playing the vegetable game which increased their knowledge of different vegetables.

“My class absolutely LOVED the kit. They were very excited each morning to see how much their plants had grown once it sprouted. We created a bar chart of when each plant started to sprouting and used this in our math activities. We also used the kit for our information reports and health where we learnt about what a healthy lunch box. Well done team on such a great resource. I will definitely be doing this again with my class next year. A big winner!”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Early days but their care and attention to detail is huge. They have warned me about mould, in the soil that over watering might produce and have come up with a spray bottle instead.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The akonga love the vegetables they grow.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? They are noticing how much the seedlings have grown and how they look. Some are more leggy and others have bigger leaves. Others are different colours and shapes.

“We started just last week and have been watching our seedlings grow. We need new larger pots for some of them already.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

Neutral

Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We have woven it into pur school values - kaitiakitanga etc.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We haven't got into this aspect of the kit yet.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? We haven't got into this aspect of the kit yet.

“The children enjoyed the planting and are very excited about seeing their seeds grow into plants. Some are a bit frustrated at the time it takes, especially when other children's seeds are sprouting overnight almost!”

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Posted 2 years ago

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