How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? It fit so well with our whenua topic and the students loved learning about what a plant needs in order to grow.

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? Our team offered a snackbreak at 10am each day and encouraged healthy snacks such as fruit and vegetables.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? A great imapct.

“The tamariki loved learning about all of the veges and characters.”

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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? About time from maths and science being the plantation of plants, from a seed to a plant that you can eat.

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? This I am not sure as I am not sure what their eating habits are like at home.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? It was okay as I had a very young class some of them recognised most of the vegetables but unfortunately not all of them.

“The kids enjoyed being able to take part in planting their own send and seeing how it slowly started to develop into a plant, well some of them anyway. I think this is great and for all students of which will teach them how plants grow and where food from the garden comes from, and how easy it can be to grow your own.”

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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? Measurement,

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 were able to monitor a plants life from a seed to a vegetable.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Some of my students were able to identify veges prior to this kit as we had been visiting our maara kai. My students were able to look, touch and taste the produce from the maara kai itself.

“My class really enjoyed this kit. It helps us bridge the classroom learning with our local community maara kai that we visit and look after.”

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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? Maths measuring growth and Science - too much sun and water experiments.

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? Some of the students have never planted anything before do this did encourage interest in our enviro group

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Excitement to watch growth progress

“Wonderful kit that engaged all the students and inspired gardening.”

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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? We were working on statistics and we worked out how many children like vegetables and how many do not or do not know what they are

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 only chose vegetables that they knew

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Some vegetables were new to them and they didn't know what they were choosing

“The children enjoyed looking after the seedlings. It was the process of planting the seeds that intrigued them. It was great seeing how fast they grew and we measured the time it took for the seeds to sprout. Also learnt the type of vegetables they ate and and finding out about herbs.”

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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? Health/ Science/ Writing

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? Many wanted to continue planting vegetables at home or trying them!

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Many didn't know the names of the vegetables and after doing this they did!

“Children loved making their little gardens. They all grew well too!”

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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? Growth cycle

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? Excitement to eat what they have grown.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Gave them greater awareness of a greater variety of vegetables.

“This was an awesome kit - the students ended up with an amazing plethora of vegetables for eating. It's amazing what they eat when they grow it themselves.”

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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? Classifying plants, Hauora-Importance of eating/Oral language/Numeracy .

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? Awareness that it is important to eat vegetables/ we can grow our own.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? In discussions pictures helped identify as well as looking at individual plants.

“Tumeke! My Junior Class enjoyed growing their plants. This was great for Oral Language and integrating learning.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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