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? Yes we can use this model for our local community because it was one of the Pepeha used.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Ka Huru Manu, 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? This has given me confidence to discuss our history, issues, stories. The resource is outstanding and gives support to teachers who will deliver it.

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? I have suggested a whole school focus for all teachers

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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“Something happened here is one of the best teacher resources I have seen. There is so much information to use and I only skimmed the surface, but the engagement I got from my students is awesome.”

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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? It hasn't really.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Some of the resources were a bit complicated for our year 5 students. But I am sure with more practice it will get easier.

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? Great to have a wider view

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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“Loving the hand on artefacts. Makes it really engaging.”

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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? I can see the possibilities of using local knowledge (iwi and 'aiga) to create our own lessons around our place.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? To start with a place and dive into this area is such a great model, easily used. I was able to expand my knowledge of the Understand, Know, Do process.

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 gave greater connection to our area, and a great model for us going forward.

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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 box of remedy by Suzanne Aubert called to me as I am in a Catholic School. With the Year 6s at camp I had a group of Year 5s from across two rooms. We watched videos, found websites, read books and researched her life. The students were amazed by this wonderful woman, in all that she did and all that she gave up to do her good work. We connected with the Wellington sites of her life rather than Whanganui, being based in Wellington. The kit resources was so inspiring, just from one small box. I can’t wait to try other artefacts and places in the future.”

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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? I think we could use that model, just forming a team about NZ history at our school.

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? I knew someone professional has checked on the story so I could trust teaching it. SO many different stories,

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? I felt strongly supported and could deliver and work with tamariki together,

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 was a great kit which has most tamariki engaged. The stories were great and interested almost all children. It was great that we could use the chromebooks a lot to research even more.”

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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? It has shown me that a photo truly says a thousand words and that to be mindful of what we see and what we don't.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I has given me a fresh outlook on what to deliver and excited me that the history talked about does not just stop on our shores but looks at the diversity of Aotearoa and it's beginnings.

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 has given the students a different/wider outlook on NZ life and what different world events played a part in our history.

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 has been an amazing kit. The time and research that has gone into it has enabled me to teach the children about NZ history that goes far beyond what we have used in the past. A real eye opener for me and the students. It has got the students asking questions, researching to find out more and dig deeper. the resources are outstanding and I know we have only just scratched the surface of what this kit has to offer. Thank you to those that put this together for teachers and our students.”

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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? We have been a pilot school for the new curriculum so the journey has been eye opening. This kit has really helped us to explore different ways we can teach the new curriculum in an engaging way. We certainly have our creative juices flowing now.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Immensely. My eyes have been opened and with it being so paint by numbers it definitely increases my confidence and 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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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? The students had lots of different connections to the stories both locally in our area but also the stories of NZ. We still have further digging to do, we’ve only just scraped the surface.

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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“We have loved getting started on this kit. We are a group of 62 kids and we started with the Solidarity pepeha as a model. We worked as a group through this journey. We then split the group across 5 journeys and split the kids inside each group to work on the different levelled tasks. The kids are having an absolute blast and there is so much rich learning going on along with the development of all key competencies.”

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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 were able to make some. connections with local area. The local maori knowledge would have been great but alas this was not really in the Dunedin area.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I feel more confident than at the start of the year. I will use the kit for a base to start a unit from

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 know that the stories were from the people and had connection to the actual places

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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“Alot of the kit was great just some parts were not complete or were not able to be accessed due to iwi not being ready to share. But this was very minimal. A great starting place for any school/ teacher starting to build a unit.”

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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? We are in the process of planning a school camp that is around our local stories and I think this was in part inspired by this kit. We are inviting local Kaumatua to share stories of the area as well as a visit to our museum for a bit more history which h

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Because the website and resources were there at my fingertips, and much of the 'work' was done for me, my role was to apply it to the learners in my class in a way they could access the material and grow their understanding. I now have a working 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? This helped us to be able to identify the stories as 'true' rather than just someones ideas and made each story more authentic.

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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“This kit was amazing - the artefacts really helped students to see the stories as 'real' not made up stories and one student made his parents stop when driving past one of the locations of a story they had explored in their learning with 'Something Happened Here'. He even had a photo taken at the site!”

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Posted 2 years ago