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? Exploring the local area was where this kit has the most impact as students could identify and connect more fully to the information. We are based in Devonport so can see Bastian Point from our school. YES TO USING THIS MODEL

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? The kit is an anchor and support. NZ history is an enormous overwhelming topic, so having the kit allowed me to chip away confidently without fearing"getting it wrong". It's great that teachers and students explore alongside each other. I'm a New Zea

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? Confidence in the validity of the data from its source rather than applying my own limited knowledge from my own experience to the history of another area. i.e Protest: While I had some knowledge of Whina Cooper, I have developed my understanding and dee

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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“The kit is great. I'll have a better ability to meet my learners needs the more I use it. I have a year 4 class, and as with most classes of this covid era, they are at an increasing large range of abilities. Some need a lot of scaffolding while others could use the kit as intended.”

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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 opened up the different avenues for research and location of artefacts.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? This kit has made a huge difference. Just knowing that all the information is there at hand and ready to go.

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? Extremely important to hear the voice of the stakeholders.

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“What an amazing resource! I went into NZ Histories feeling deficient in my knowledge with many gaps. I knew I wanted to focus locally and Ahi Ka made sense. The resource went back in history sufficiently enough to give the necessary information needed to go forward. Physical and digital resources were easily accessible with clear instructions supporting each step. Information was multi faceted and came from many different views. I traversed between the different levels and cherry picked as I went. We focussed for a few weeks on the factual side of history and then moved into the fictional side. At this same time we were doing MITEY and this linked in perfectly with the building of the fictional aspect. Questions were posed about how different participants would have felt during different stages with process drama added in to help with expression and diary writing allowing students to articulate views from multiple perspectives. A culmination was the research and design of a new community being built on the Orakei Reserve to counter the Crowns claims of it being a slum. Would this stop the torching of homes? Students designed a community which included a marae, community gardens, orchards, a kura, a medical centre (following research into health issues), parks, playgrounds, walking tracks and healthy homes (Drawn to scale) which were presented and debated with to the (imaginary) Crown. Overall the experience for both teacher and students was positive and covered many curriculum areas. (Photo attached shows the development designed by the 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 are now researching further into landmarks and events in our local area, the students are loving it! and looking forward to presenting their new found knowledge with other family and peers alike. The students have also enjoyed discovering the locations

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I felt far more confident to teach this part of the curriculum knowing I had a well developed and collaboratively created resource. Thank you!

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? Know that the stories were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whanau/community added an extra layer of authenticity and reliability to the content / stories.

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

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“I loved the bold imagery and exciting and informative, easy-to-use and read resource. I learnt just as much as my 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 already used existing stories to examine similar situations in local history, and see many more opportunities to do this.

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? I had very little knowledge or confidence to implement this. I now feel I have a strong framework to support me as I learn.

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

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Helped to feel confident presenting facts and material around iwi sensitive topics knowing resources were produced respectfully.

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“Loved the opportunity to differentiate the learning, and the way the resource considers wide ranges of perspectives. Kids especially loved the artefacts!”

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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? Our area of Belmont, near Devonport is perfect for this kit. As we struggled with this kit, I don't think we will use the model again.

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 think it really helped with my understanding of the curriculum, however, the kit itself was very overwhelming and hard to teach with 30 kids. I do think it's given me a better perspective on the new curriculum though.

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 was probably the highlight of the kit.

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“A tough one to teach with an overwhelming amount of information and resources. Great stories, and I love the connection with local iwi. I probably wouldn't teach this again.”

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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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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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“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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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

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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

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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.

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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