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? Students are interested in finding out more about our local area although we live in a small rural community so we already were doing this before the unit.

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 have a keen interest in the NZ 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? No impact

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 quite a tricky unit for my year 5/6 students. We had a very mucky term so the lessons were few and far between, meaning there was no real consistency. Their engagement in the unit wasn't great either possibly because of this.”

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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? Learning links with Hawkes Bay were supported with our local myths and legends. Also close links to colonisatisation of coast, whaling, farming and education for Maori/ missionaries etc.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Digital NZ, NZ On Screen, 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? The kids enjoyed reaseaching the key ideas and important events/ people in time. We were also able to access the documentary featured on TV Ondemand featuring Whina Cooper. We were also able to make connections to Pohutakaw star within our Matariki learni

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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“Kia ora, due to the kit arriving later than expected I will be continuing the kit next term and combining with Bomb Gone to ensure we are covering the topics within the time frame available to us. Photos and evidence of learning to be conclude during term 3. Thank you once again for they amazing learning packs, they are so engaging and promote wonderful learning experiences for all levels.”

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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 definitely looking at using this model with future history units being taught at my school. Stdts find this relevant to themselves more because of it.

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

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 collaboration between iwi and community was a huge factor in my class being able to gain relevance with the unit.

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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“My class enjoyed the items in the box which led to more deeper thinking questions relating to NZ history. They were able to find out about them and make links to these items and their current history being made today.”

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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? Finding places that have importance to our local are will be our next step.

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

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? Knowing that that stories were created with local iwi and community made me feel more confident to share the stories with my students.

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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“Soo much rich and valuable learning came from this kit. Students loved it and enjoyed researching many places around New Zealand.”

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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 has helped me to apply local curriculum knowledge to the stories. We can connect to these and they are important for understanding our history in this region. Know that I have some knowledge, I have greater curiosity about what else has happened arou

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

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? Knowing that these stories were developed in collaboration with iwi was really important for both myself and my students. It provided us with a resource where we could trust the information and understand the events from the perspective of the tangata whe

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 loved how this kit required the students to piece together clues and use research skills along the way. It was so valuable having photos, documents, maps etc. as well as the digital tools that students are well accustomed to using. I really appreciate all the time and effort that has been put into producing such a precious resource for NZ students to use. Such a lot of learning involved.”

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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 incorporated in our literacy groups where the students, together in groups, made a presentation about the story and the events faced. It was really good to see them work as a group to find out more.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Cenotaph, 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? Knowing the whanau and community was involved brought a lot more mana and respect from the tamariki as they unpacked the local story.

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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“Awesome kit with some hard mahi behind the scenes. Due to the nature of the kit, our class found that we spent a lot of time just unpacking the one sorry behind Ahumanga. We would have loved to do more but worth the time we had could only do justice on the one card.”

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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 am always looking for ways to connect with our local iwi for stories - sadly, there is a lot of in fighting which is blocking this...at the moment.

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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Neutral

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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 fact that there was a root for the stories to come back to meant the students have taken the knowledge that has been shared a little more seriously and treated the information with more respect than previous inquiries.

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

Not Significant At All

Neutral

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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 information in this pack was awesome and stretched far and wide across our motu. Sadly, because of the firewalls in place for student safety, accessibility for some of the sites was not able to be gained - which was incredibly frustrating at times - they were able to access through the teacher's rorhiko, engare one rorhiko split by a class is not ideal. Overall, it has been nice to see the interest of the students in our history being piqued and the conversations about our space being rich. Thank you Schook Kit for an outstanding opportunity.”

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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 had previously learnt about the history of our local area. There was not a kit that I cam across that is about the local Palmerston North area, the closest was Pahiatua which most of the students could not relate to. Using this model could be good for

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

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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 was some impact, but not a lot.

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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“My students were very engaged in the beginning process, using the pepeha to locate where in the country they were. Having to answer it correctly to get into the next section was great. At times, I did find that some of the activities that the students had to do were not the best. Some of my students had to listen to a 50 minute podcast, which led them to disengaging quite quickly and they were not the type of students to do so. I found that some of the activities were missing as well or when students had to search for something that they could not find it.”

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Posted 2 years ago