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? Our Kura are starting to form more of a connection with our local Iwi. We are on the journey of creating our own local pepeha, and are getting more confident to share it with others.

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

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 think that had more impact for myself than my students. I felt like I paid more time and respect to the stories, and felt more connected to our past. I feel like it filled a part of my own learning journey that wasn't addressed when I was at school myse

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 is an amazing resource that has been cleverly curated to support the teaching of Aotearoa/NZ History in our schools. It enables students to work in a variety of ways, both independently and as part of a group to learn about our history beyond their own world. The resources and website are designed to complement each other, and can be used over and over again. They promote questioning and critical thinking, both of which are valuable skills for our akonga. If I had a critique, it would be that many of our students struggled to navigate through the tasks - often missing the higher level thinking required to truly understand what was being asked of them. I wonder though if this is more a reflection of the times we are living in post-lockdowns, as we are finding that the expectations we have of our students have changed after 2 highly interrupted years of learning from home.”

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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? Definitely keen to explore more stories from our local area. I have started saving stories as I hear / see them ready to share with tamariki.

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

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 is so nice to know that stories are genuine and from a variety of sources that have been checked. Thank you for your mahi making this happen.

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 is an absolutely fantastic kit packed with so much information. Due to high illness rates we did not get the time I wanted to devote to this resource, so we will be carrying on in Term 3. There is so much rich learning in here and the students were interested in the links between various stories. They love finding the rough locations based on the pepeha. Thank you school kit for another AMAZING resource which has obviously had so much time, effort, care and thought put into it by so many people.”

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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 Term our rangatahi had been exploring our local history focusing on the areas that our schools syndicates are named after. We organised trips to certain places in order to see and hear the purakau around the names given to our school classes. This re

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? This kit has provided me with other search engines, websites and a great inquiry style model to help me deliver aspects of our Aotearoa Histories curriculum with more confidence. I can't wait to really delve deeper into this Kit again next Term with my ot

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? Very suprising and grateful that the developers chose to do this. Teaching in a bilingual setting at our school all students had been learning their Pepeha in Term one and our Topic Studies this Term was titled: Ko wai matou? No wai matou? So this Kit was

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 is amazing. With all of the seemingly authentic physical clues, the website and access to so many research engines, multi-media archives and historical gems, this Kit has it all. It has been a little overwhelming and it did take a great deal of time to un-pack everything and figure out how to use things. I did spend some time trialling this kit with an extension English class that I teach and we only just started exploring the material and website in the last 3 weeks of the Term. I intend to use the kit in Term 3 with my actual homeroom to delve deeper and unpack things more now that I have had a few weeks to process everything.”

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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 going to have help with this from Emma which will be great.

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

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? That is huge and much appreciated!!

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 looks great - we have only started but will be ongoing throughout Term 3 and likely 4. 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? Having this kit within the year 5 team inspired us to further it into our own community. Our school had just recently had our 150 year anniversary that we missed celebrating due to COVID, we celebrated this and researched more about our areas - kids loved

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? This kit significantly helped me deliver this topic. Students absolutely loved the hands on/ extra materials to strengthen understandings.

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! Gave it more meaning and motivation to do it.

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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“Materials and resources were absolutely amazing. Students LOVED the hands on pieces that came with the kit. Kit met my expectations plus some. We enjoyed it very much.”

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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? Definitely motivated and a great starting point. Could definitely use this model in a variety of ways across the year levels also.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Has given me more to my kete and any knowledge is good 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? It was great to know there had been a lot of korero and thought behind each of the stories. It helped start dialogue for us for our local area.

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 so thoughtfully put together with great resources. My class has loved being able to follow their own lines of inquiry with the support from this kit. The questions that came out of discussions around the different resources were amazing! It also has helped me develop my knowledge further. I recommend this kit to all classrooms! (And can't wait to continue to use it further next term)”

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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 explore our local area regularly as it gives the students a sense of belonging.

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

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 tamariki enjoyed this aspect.

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 fund this kit very good as I love history. I did find it a bit wordy for my year 5 and 6 students. They found the content interesting but needed to be guided through it more than working with independence. They liked the hands on experience with the artefacts and photos and trying to find where they fit in with the website.”

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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? Investigating what has happened at a specific site is a great way to start looking at local history generally.

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, RNZ

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? Learning history is always more engaging when you know who’s history is being told. It puts a human face on the facts.

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 have a year four class and they loved being detectives and learning about important slices of our history. The only problem was the huge amount of information. There is enough great stuff in this kit to last for a long time. I will be continuing this learning journey into term 3 (and possibly longer). Thanks for all the hard work done putting this all together.”

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Posted 2 years ago