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? Shown how important local history and local stories are

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, Papers Past

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Improvement

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? Yes - important to know the stories were developed in collaboration with community.

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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“Thanks great to have a resource aligned with the curriculum”

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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 is a great model and I would love to have resources like this for our local area.

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 helped me think about different and engaging ways to deliver the 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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? We are a school with many students from different places around the world. Our Chinese students were fascinated to learn about some of the stories from Chinese immigrants who came to NZ many years ago.

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 kit is a wonderful resource, with lots of interesting and engaging activities and artefacts for the students to explore. We did find that the level of learning was perhaps a little high for some of our year 5-6 learners and those students needed more support and guidance. Some of the artefacts and journeys were not complete online which was disappointing for some of the students. On the whole the resource is fantastic and gives the students a great starting point to begin exploring the history of Aotearoa NZ.”

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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, this is a model we can use.

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, Nga Taonga, Papers Past, RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I am now more confident.

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? Significant

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

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“Well put together package, the materials were engaging, the children particular enjoyed working with primary sources. The thematic approach worked well.”

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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 want to relook at these stories and look at our own nearby stories. Being descended from local iwi in this area with strong historical knowledge and roots to the whenua, I want to peruse the telling of these narratives in ways which will engage students

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? To be fair, we had a lot of disruptions with sick students and teachers which meant I had a different class everyday. I found it hard to get momentum with this kit but believe it is too valuable resource to leave parked so I want to have another go next y

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? We were only able to look at some of the stories as teacher and students found the start quite confusing. We carried out one together as a class which was very interesting. The Pepeha were interesting but I think we were all a bit confused about where thi

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“This is a very comprehensive resource and it took us time to try and get our head around what to do and where to go. I found it very tricky to monitor the different directions children embarked on and found that we didn't get an outcome for everybody. I need to invest more time to give some structure on how I will manage it in my class next year.”

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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 this format works brilliantly. Take a photo and find out.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It has given me lots of ideas to build on. Also where the children are able to drive the learning themselves.

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? They all brought a local flavour.

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“Absolutely fabulous. With the histories curriculum coming out next year this needs to be supplied to every teacher in New Zealand. The children were amazed at some of the items. Black Panther movement, Springbok tour, Rainbow Warrior to name a few. The resources and time that must have gone into it would be incredible. Well done to everyone involved. I am reminded of the quote ‘if we don’t learn from history we are destined to repeat it. ‘”

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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 explored our local history instead of using the kit

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I was already pretty confident to deliver this 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? Great idea

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 found it quite hard to know what to actually do with this kit. While the historical photos and items were quite cool, the teaching and planning sequence wasn't clear. We did not end up using our kit really at all. Some clear, sequenced lesson plans would be helpful for next time and some differentiation ideas.”

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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 it was good and going to do more of this next year

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Yes it has helped and made it easier

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? No

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 hear the 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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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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“Love it and was great resources”

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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 motivated me to do more with the children around the history of NZ. We learnt about our local history and linked some information from around NZ and the children were able to connect with the stories and this captured their attention.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It is a great resource as it has great materials and artefacts to share with the children which captured their interest. It is also great to see more than one perspective in the NZ histories curriculum which is important and gives the opportunity for chil

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 stories made the teaching of the material a lot easier and the children could all connect and gain knowledge and an understanding of NZ history. As we read and learned more about the range of information the children also had the opportunity to share

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“The children and I thoroughly enjoyed the kit as it offered a wide variety of material and content. It was a great starting point as we were focusing on our local history and the children not only learnt about our local history but it tied in nicely to compare with some of the history throughout NZ. We used the resource over 2 terms, but we could have extended it as the there was a lot of material to learn about. Thank you for the great resource we all really enjoyed it.”

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Posted 2 years ago