How motivated are your students to take care of their local environment after this kit?

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What cross curricular learning opportunities arose from using Nature as the context? I loved the technology involved, though had to navigate around a few issues.

How were your students' happiness levels improved when being in nature?

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How engaged were your students with their senses during this kit?

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How has the kit impacted you and your students feelings toward nature? Made them more aware of what is around them.

What were the benefits of using Nature as a context for learning? It is part of our school setting. Getting to know where we live.

How openly did students discuss the beauty of nature after taking part in this kit?

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How effective was this kit in increasing students' sense of place?

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“As our community is basically 80% DOC land, this kit gave my children a chance to explore things such as Matariki and continue to map our environment, Thanks once again.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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What cross curricular learning opportunities arose from using Nature as the context? Science and maths links were strong

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How has the kit impacted you and your students feelings toward nature? The class are more likely to stop and point out beauty

What were the benefits of using Nature as a context for learning? It made the learning accessible for everyone. Everyone had had some experience with nature and was able to transfer this to the new learning.

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“This is an awesome kit. Once again school kit make it easy for us to engage students and take learning to the next level.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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What cross curricular learning opportunities arose from using Nature as the context? Sketching - art, writing - nature

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How has the kit impacted you and your students feelings toward nature? - Impact has stayed the same

What were the benefits of using Nature as a context for learning? - Real life - Part of our school philosophy

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“Levelled too high for year 3-34 students. Too many components and not enough instructions. Not enough time to complete the kit before review needed Kowhai seeds and containers went moudly??”

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Posted 4 years ago

“My class has really enjoyed this kit. They are super proud of their Self booklets and have shared these with their parents and caregivers. Using the charging station since we have returned from lockdown has been so valuable. Students are more aware of how they are feeling and recognising their strengths. The class have asked if they can continue to use the charging station as the year progresses. Thank you, School Kit and Dove, this kit could not have come at a better time.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Already sent the review.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“This kit had a wide variety of engaging activities that were easy to follow for both the teacher and student. It provided some really nice angles for students to look at the same thing but in different ways. For our school this fitted well with other units of work that we were doing. The seeds are sprouting now but it was a bit hard to get these started going into a cold part of the year.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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What cross curricular learning opportunities arose from using Nature as the context? We linked it to Hauora and wellbeing. Ways to improve their wairua and hinengaro in wellbeing.

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How has the kit impacted you and your students feelings toward nature? Many children have taken more interest in our space and are keen to keep improving it.

What were the benefits of using Nature as a context for learning? Children all had some prior knowledge. We are trying to instill respect for the land and being kaitiaki, so the kit really helped with that.

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“This was a really useful kit as we are in the process of improving our school grounds and gardens. It was a lot more indepth than I first thought so we underestimated the amount of time it would take. It is still a work in progress.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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What cross curricular learning opportunities arose from using Nature as the context? We integrated the unit into our reading programme as the students studied and researched plants and the plant cycle. They also had reading books to take home that were based on the topic of nature.

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How has the kit impacted you and your students feelings toward nature? Students have a greater appreciation about the environment around them and a purpose to be responsible and take care of the plants.

What were the benefits of using Nature as a context for learning? Applied a real life context Allowed learning outside the classroom

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“This was an excellent detailed resource that tied in well with our focus on plant and water cycles. It allowed the students to bring the application of learning to outside the classroom and learn how things work in the world around them.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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