How did this kit build awareness and understanding of the NZ Navy and it's contributions to our history? We did not focus so much on this aspect of the unit.

How effective was this kit in building your awareness of the New Zealand Navy's role in NZ History?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ movement prior to using this kit?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ Movement after using this kit?

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What would you say the impact of this kit has been on your students? The kit was very useful making the connection between the atomic age/cold war era to the NZ context as this was our greater unit. It has been difficult to find well curated resources on the NZ nuclear movement prior to this.

Which resources were most engaging and most useful to students? Students enjoyed using the online portal and exploring the plethora of videos, artefacts and transcripts. With all the physical copies we ended up creating a wall display.

“Overall this learning kit has some fantastic resources both digital and tactile. It is perfect for an inquiry based unit for sure. I think what is missing is a logical, sequential unit plan to follow.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How did this kit build awareness and understanding of the NZ Navy and it's contributions to our history? Built a great base level of knoweldge from which to come up with questions.

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ movement prior to using this kit?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ Movement after using this kit?

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What would you say the impact of this kit has been on your students? Students found lots of the information surprising and were interested in how this shapes ongoing interactions between classes.

Which resources were most engaging and most useful to students? All of it! Overall quality of resources - attractiveness and joy of discovering them led to instant engagement.

“Another super engaging resource from School Kit”

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Posted 2 years ago

How did this kit build awareness and understanding of the NZ Navy and it's contributions to our history? The students learned more about the role the New Zealand Navy played in the nuclear testing happening the Pacific. They also learned that for some Navy members this came at a cost to their health.

How effective was this kit in building your awareness of the New Zealand Navy's role in NZ History?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ movement prior to using this kit?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ Movement after using this kit?

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What would you say the impact of this kit has been on your students? I was surprised how little the students new about nuclear testing in the Pacific (and really anything nuclear at all). This kit generated lots of questions and discussions around this - especially Aotearoa's role and the impact on the Pacific Islands.

Which resources were most engaging and most useful to students? The students were really engaged in this task - the hands on and collaborative aspects of this were great.

“The resources for this kit were amazing - the students loved exploring the history of the different items and making links between these. They also liked the challenge of placing the different events on the timeline. Another amazing kit - thank you!”

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Posted 2 years ago

How did this kit build awareness and understanding of the NZ Navy and it's contributions to our history? The varying resources helped the students to independently do research about the different time frames we were looking at.

How effective was this kit in building your awareness of the New Zealand Navy's role in NZ History?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ movement prior to using this kit?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ Movement after using this kit?

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What would you say the impact of this kit has been on your students? This kit made an impact on how my kids learn and critically think about topics; they look for more information from different sources and different types of sources now.

Which resources were most engaging and most useful to students? My students really liked diving into Operation Grapple via the veteran information cards. Also, having the giant timeframe as a visual in our class was very useful.

“This kit came with SO much useful information and the resources were great too. A little overwhelming at times, I'll admit it, but for the most part, my students were engaged and interested in NZ's nuclear history.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How did this kit build awareness and understanding of the NZ Navy and it's contributions to our history? Through the images and case studies, it was more real for the students to see that nuclear energy affected people's lives.

How effective was this kit in building your awareness of the New Zealand Navy's role in NZ History?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ movement prior to using this kit?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ Movement after using this kit?

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What would you say the impact of this kit has been on your students? They are able to talk about New Zealand's unique stance on nuclear energy and can discuss this in relation to other countries.

Which resources were most engaging and most useful to students? Students loved listening to the spotify playlist of the era while working on their research - they were also able to connect this to music their parents or grand parents listened to. The pictures and little artefacts really helped with engagement, and I p

“I absolutely loved teaching and using this kit! The students really enjoyed learning about how New Zealand became nuclear free, and it was great that they were reading and synthesising information to find the answers.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How did this kit build awareness and understanding of the NZ Navy and it's contributions to our history? Various hard copy resources were v helpful

How effective was this kit in building your awareness of the New Zealand Navy's role in NZ History?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ movement prior to using this kit?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ Movement after using this kit?

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What would you say the impact of this kit has been on your students? Super helpful

Which resources were most engaging and most useful to students? Hard copy were awesome to get away from screens

“Amazing collection of resources”

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Posted 2 years ago

How did this kit build awareness and understanding of the NZ Navy and it's contributions to our history? The focus on various perspectives and breaking down into time periods was helpful in focusing student learning without overwhelming them. It meant that as we went through the timeline they were able to build on their knowledge of the navy so that by the t

How effective was this kit in building your awareness of the New Zealand Navy's role in NZ History?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ movement prior to using this kit?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ Movement after using this kit?

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What would you say the impact of this kit has been on your students? The Bombs Gone kit has given the students a newfound appreciation of historical events that have direct impacts on the laws and policies that we live by in society today. It has given them perspective and allowed them to see how decisions that we make tod

Which resources were most engaging and most useful to students? Different students tended to engage with the different resources so it's hard to say what was MOST useful overall. The pictures of the aged naval men and their comments, from the Operation Grapple period were interesting for many students. Listening to au

“This was a fantastic resource for my Year 7 & 8 class. The variety of resources (audio, video, playlists, newspaper articles, banners, maps, photos....) were awesome for students to interact with and make connections. Also the timeline and perspectives were a good way of chunking information or enabling learning to focus on certain aspects of the unit. The kids were super engaged and many are now very interested in history.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How did this kit build awareness and understanding of the NZ Navy and it's contributions to our history? I knew very little about the navy involvement, and my class knew nothing. I even have students wanting to join the navy now!

How effective was this kit in building your awareness of the New Zealand Navy's role in NZ History?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ movement prior to using this kit?

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How would you rate your class's knowledge of the Nuclear Free NZ Movement after using this kit?

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What would you say the impact of this kit has been on your students? Students now see they can have voice and bring about change. This has led to some interesting discussions around school policies! There is a confidence that wasn't there before.

Which resources were most engaging and most useful to students? As a digital school, the website and videos proved to be the most engaging of the resources. My yr 7/8 students love doing their own research to answer a question so this was perfect.

“As usual, a fabulous resource! I remember when NZ became nuclear free but was quite young so I learned a lot here too!”

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Posted 2 years ago

Bomb Gone: Nuclear Free Pacific Reviews