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! It has really opened up a deeper level of planning to look into our local and personal histories.

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? The kit made it easy to tap into an area that is unknown to many.

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? Powerful. To know that all voices were heard.

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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“It was really interesting and had lots of artefacts and historical content that was new for students. It also opened a lot of wonderings about our local area and the unique historical view we have.”

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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? This enabled us to search for photographs etc of our area and share these with the students and extend their perspectives around our community

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? It has provided myself with some more background into NZ stories and events

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 knowing they had input into this kit and their stories were told in the correct way

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 kit had an amazing amount of activities and resources however I needed to adapt quite a lot of the activities for the Year 4 students in my class s it was above their understanding. It would have been better to have a paper copy of the activities expectation/instructions to prevent having to refer back to the website all the time. Also having the activities separated somehow would have been better.”

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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 very motivated to learn more about the history of Papatoetoe.

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 feel more confident now as I have more information that is relevant to my class level

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 show deeper connections in our country.

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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“A fantastic resource that aided our learning about NZ histories thanks!”

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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 beginning to design a localised curriculum so this really supports that journey.

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? It is always daunting when the curriculum has added components and you feel you really know not a lot about it! It is so helpful to have a 'walk you through' guide'. Thanks team!

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? So important for buy in and context being 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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“I just love how the authentic context of the postcards etc really pull you in. Very well organised and planned out. Even the most naive of us can access and teach from this kit.”

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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 school we will be exploring local history more moving forward

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? improved my confidence

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? made resource more relevant

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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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 not directly used the kit to explore our local area. Yes, we would certainly use this model though.

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? I'm still developing my confidence with the Aotearoa Histories and this is helping. My students loved the interactive facing website. There is so much there. Still coming to terms with but they were highly engaged with the nuclear bomb testing and the pr

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? Love this! It's is brilliant that you are connecting with iwi and communities.

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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“I've written a little review down below.”

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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 teacher I found out a lot of information I had no idea about so it was amazing to learn things myself. But was cool when the students looked at a card that directly linked to our local area as they had been to some of these places. But yes I could us

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Has shown me a range of different resources I can use with my students in the future.

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? Was great not having a biased opinion and that all sides of the stories/information were included.

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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“I absolutely loved teaching this kit! Was so cool to see the children discover the new learning on their own and become experts in the learning. Only down full were some of the resources/links not working or being available. The students loved having the physical resources that could actually look at and hold rather than just looking at an image on the screen.”

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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? Abosolutely.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It has 'brought it to life' and provided an engaging format to spark students' interest.

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? So relevant

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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“A fantastic resource for introducing the students to the new histories curriculum. Engaging activities and easy to use. We haven't finished using it, we will continue throughout the year.”

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Posted 2 years ago