Aotearoa NZ Histories 22 Reviews

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How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? The kit was great but took a lot of time to work through. As a result our focus for term 4 is different, but I will utalise this again in the future for my classes to hook into Aotearoa history.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Yes this had a great overview of the new curriculum and helped understand the ideas of the Know, Do, Understand aspects of this.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Students really enjoyed the physical materials, being a year 5/6 class with limited exposure we didn't look deeply at the kit development.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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“It has a lot of resources and materials for the students to utalise and use during their learning with this Kit. The support material as a teacher was quite difficult to wrap my head around initially. The student website was also hard for my students to work through and wasn't as intuitive as I was expecting. Most did work out after a few tasks and then were able to independently work through this without support.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Using the model of this kit, we are able to explore our own local area using focal areas to get students exploring why our area came to be. This process had already begun in our school but was able to be built upon with the help of this kit.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Cenotaph, Digital NZ, NZ On Screen, National Library, Nga Taonga, Papers Past, RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? This kit has helped to reinforce my confidence in teach the new Aotearoa Histories Curriculum.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? It was great to hear that this kit was created in collaboration with local iwi. As a history teacher as well as a Social Science teacher it is vital that these perspectives are included. Students were able to understand local iwi's views on certain topic.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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“Overall I found this kit both informative and interesting for my students. The were very engaged in learning about the different stories in different areas around Aotearoa. I really hope that there is a part two to this kit and can't wait to see what other stories they explore.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Local area was not explored to a great extent. Students chose a 'lens' eg chef, mathematician and were guided to research their chosen lens based on Aotearoa history but Papaoiea.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? National Library

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? The kit along with school wide PD around the Aotearoa Histories Curriculum has ensured deeper understanding. A great kit, comprehensive but quite complicated design and application wise.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Our key focus was around ancestry not only for Maori but multiculturally and so the stories offered diversity and ability to link with students personal history.

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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“The kit had some incredible resources that were high interest and initiated lots of discussion and research from the students. My only concern was the complexity of the cards and the wheel. This kit was not as easy to follow as previous ones I have used. I know the kit was super valuable but keeping it simpler for teachers is important especially regarding time.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes we can - I will definitely model future historical inquiry this way. It really get s the students engaged.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Digital NZ, National Library, Papers Past

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It talked me through the new curriculum learning with the students. The resources are amazing as is the website and tasks.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Really valuable - it gave them a voice and this came through in the resources.

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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“I cannot find the words to say how amazing this kit is or how many different aspects of learning our students got from it. The students thoroughly enjoyed this and got so much from it. Research skills, reading photographs, looking at artefacts as well as learning about local history and how it can build up a story.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? 100% could use thus model!!! Very, very motivated to explore our cultural narrative.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Cenotaph, National Library, Papers Past

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I trusted 100% that due diligence was done in terms of connecting with iwi and ensuring cultural appropriateness.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Amazing for our Māori tamariki.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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“This is the best school kit resource ever and needs to be rolled out to all schools! We adapted and scaffolded for our 70 Year 4 tamariki who were 100% engaged in putting the pieces to their postcard puzzles together. We had whānau involvement who supported excited tamariki at home with their research and lots of questions being asked around"what voice is missing". This kit gave us the beautiful opportunity to teach our multicultural community about the history of the country we all call ours.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? The kit has made the children more interested in their local history and their families stories.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Cenotaph

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It took me a wee while to get my head around how the kit worked and how to navigate both the teacher information and the student information. Once I understood how it worked I felt more comfortable with the kit. I feel more comfortable and confident abo

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? It was good to have community input into the information and the kit. History is always more interesting when you see the impact on real people and their lives.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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“Overall the kit was really well put together. The resources were high quality and thought provoking. There was a lot of reading in the online information which really challenged my less capable readers and in some cases put them off a little. I loved that there was a wide variety of online sources including photos and newspapers. There was a wide variety of different topics to pick from, although apparently nothing happened in Southland, some history a little closer to home would have been good. I also liked that there were topics that are not necessarily the common or popular topics”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? As a class we would like to delve into the history of our area and the kit certainly has helped with how we could research this further.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Cenotaph, NZ On Screen, National Library, RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? The kit has impacted my confidence in delivering the new Histories Curriculum. I did find it overwhelming at times, how to best teach this to my class.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? This is a very important part of the kit. Stories from their iwi/whanau and community.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“The History Kit is VERY comprehensive, great resources. At first I did find the kit very overwhelming and hard to teach but as time went on we navigated through it together. I do feel it is better suited to Year 7 & 8.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes - very motivated to learn more about the local community of Hawkes Bay/Ahuriri/Heretaunga.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? NZ On Screen, National Library, Nga Taonga, RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I feel a lot more confident in the knowledge/facts behind a lot of New Zealand's history. I will continue to refer to this for my own knowledge.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? There is so much more that we could learn about our local community/Hawkes Bay. The fact that this kit was developed with the local communtiy was awesome.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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“This kit had so much information and resources in it. I was actually away for the first 3 weeks of this term. The teacher that was in my class was able to use the kit with ease to kickstart our inquiry learning. There were certain learning activities that we zeroed in on. The wheel with learning and activities made things easy to sort and use. This kit will be used again and again in the future.”

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Posted 2 years ago