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 used them for science, measurement, writing to keep a log of their growth and care of plants, health and it linked in perfectly with our healthy eating unit this term.

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 more aware of where food comes from and how it grows. They are more open to trying some of the different foods in our school lunches. The cant wait to see how they grow in their own homes! We also learned a bit about why vegetables are good for t

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The students were excited to find new vegetables they hadn't seen or heard of before and were interested in learning about more vegetables. It would have been awesome if New World could have arranged us to get some fresh vegetables to try as well.

“Our class loved growing their seeds. They didn't think they would actually grow, so when they started sprouting, the children were so excited! We have been making observations and drawing the growth of our plants too. They have loved being in the secret club. The badges were a great touch. The resources were amazing and really well made.”

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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 wrote about our favourite vegetables and read some vegetable related stories.

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 taste testing was fun and we spoke about vegetables being healthy for us

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? We learnt some vegetable names in Maori too

“My new entrants loved learning about vegetables. We tried new vegetables and enjoyed the game sent out. We were all excited to become members of the LGL club. We loved sharing our jokes on the membership application. We also watched some cool time lapse videos on vegetables growing. Our plants are now sprouting and we will take them home at the end of next week.”

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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? Having plans that accompanied this kit with ideas for cross curriculum links would have been great.

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? Improved. But again, lesson plans would have been helpful to truly make this a success.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Much improved but again lesson plans and ideas would have been appreciated

“I have new entrants. Some activities like letter writing are well beyond the abilities in my class. There are no lesson plans with this kit which meant I was having to try and create and adapt resources for this kit to ensure my kids were engaged and experiencing some success. Was a good addition to our school garden program though and got the kids excited about growing things.”

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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? Connected to our inquiry focus of 'change', discussing life cycles and the process of the vegetable changing from a seed to an edible plant.

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? Not very much from what I can see at school but I have heard of conversations they have had at home where the kids are asking to try the vegetable they have planted or see it so they know what it will look like.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The poster with the vegetables was really good! Kids found out what seed they were planting and went to go check out what it looked like and the name they were given.

“Really enjoyable to teach and surprisingly my year 4's got into the whole 'secret agent' thing more than the year 2's/3's.”

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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 tied the growing in to maths (measaurement, using predictions), food tech, 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 made soup with the vegies we planted at school earlier and they are now keen to find healthy ways we can use these seedlings when we harvest them next term.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? I saw an improvement in their recognition of many vegetables.

“Thank you for sending the Little garden kit. The students have enjoyed planting and watching the seeds grow.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science, literacy

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? Huge discussions around veggies and what plants we put into our school garden. All keen to try when ready to eat.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? All students took up the challenge of learning all the veggie names.

“Perfect timing as we were starting a unit on plants - growing, parts of a plant, growing conditions needed. having enough little gardens for each student made the planting and growing of them very exciting for the students. the seedlings are to be planted in our school veggie garden.”

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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? Learning how home grown vegetables can benefit your family. How to follow instructions. Being responsible for something. It covered literacy for reading and following instructions. It covered Math as we had to measure ingredients to make the little garde

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 looked at cost of food from supermarket and what it would cost growing your own and the children had to do some own research about how much they would spend. We talked about sprays and other things that go onto our vegetables before they get to the sho

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Lots of children were excited to get their own in class and at home and loved waiting them grow and being able to add them to their plates.

“I never thought that my children could be so engaged in something. They loved every moment of it from planting each of them to keeping on eye on 'their; plant every day. Yes, I got reports on every plant most days. They loved having the responsibility of something. We learnt on the tags how long each one would take to grow and the day that the first one sprouted was an exciting day for our class! Parents have come in to check on them with their child dragging them into the class. We have been learning about climate change in our class and how we can reduce our carbon footprint do this fit into that really well. Overall a very successful kit for our class/pod”

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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? Te ao Maori

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's opened them up to trying new things.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Great. It has linked well with our class topic on innovation and enerprise where we are looking at shops.

“The kit has everything needed. The kids are excited.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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