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? Very much so. We have joined in the 150th celebrations at Te Tokanganui a Noho Marae, and visited local areas of interest.

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 was an absolute God send - a place to begin, and resourced so in depth. Thank you very much

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 began Te Rohe Potae - as we are in Te Kuiti, and this was and extremely relevant way to begin using the kit, as it fits in perfectly with who we are are, where we belong - past and present.

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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“Thank you for the kit. The resources are immense, and will be used over the entire year, as the units are extremely comprehensive. The links to further reading provide rich resources to expand the content.”

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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? Very much motivated to dig deeper and explore our own backyard more using this model.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? 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 was already pretty confident. But I loved that I could add this to my kit

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? I had more confidence sharing the stories knowing they were developed in collaboration

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“Students were highly engaged throughout, loved all the hands on materials!”

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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? The local history is way more in depth that what was provided in the kit. I already explore our local area history.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? The kit gave me some other ideas, but I am already very confident to deliver Aotearoa History

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? I personally thought they were great, some of my students liked the stories, but some were errelevant

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“Some of the kit was irrelevant to my students. The learning needed to be targeted and specific to the local area. Some students struggled.”

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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? Able to relate to different area and some of our whānau within the school.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I will for sure use the resources again and can also use this a a writing prompt during literacy.

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? We had a guest speaker in from local iwi and they spoke about place based stories. Although none were relatable to the kit items. But they were able to bring perspective.

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“Loved the resources they were great talking starters and ignited numerous questions. We were able to put things on display and create curiosity.”

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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? Some of it, we visited the local museum and local places of interest.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Already had a good grasp, but gave me some more places to explore .

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? Lots of diverse perspectives covered, stimulating converstion happened.

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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“NZ Histories”

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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? The kids have been working with the local iwi on other sites of significance.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It hasn't really impacted on teaching the new curriculum - we already covered similar stuff in the social studies 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? This made the kit even more relevant as it is something we are currently working on with our iwi.

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“This kit was awesome, the kids were engaged and learned a lot about our history.”

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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 doing place based learning for a few years but this has helped broaden our scope and shown us a way of doing local stories with the children.

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 learnt SO much that I did not already know. Given me a good start for teaching NZ History next year. Was supported by a teacher who has a broad knowledge of Aotearoa's history so she was able to explain more in depth or fill any in gaps, put thing

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? Some were excited to learn of things happening in towns they hail from and a couple shared iwi with 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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“We REALLY loved this kit! Such a great resource. Two classes came together to do an inquiry in groups of 3 and were allocated a postcard each. We had difficulty navigating some of the digital sites and some particular content was too challenging for our Year 4 & 5s to work through independently but were supported by teachers. Think more suitable to Intermediate and up. Suggestion would be to split the pages by curriculum level (so L1 click into 'this' page, L2 this page or by year level etc) as our kids got a bit confused with all the different information on the page (even though we said left side, task 1 etc). They didn't understand the core messages (e.g racism, sexism etc) but it was a great introductory inquiry and will set them up for continuing this kind of learning in years to come. Opened us up to being able to discuss these kind of topics.”

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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 look forward to implementing this model next year in our place-based curriculum.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? My personal learning has been huge! The resources and activities that go with them will continue to be useful.

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 very important because it gave me a greater understanding of the story behind the events we were learning about.

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“This was a fabulous resource packed with lots of great learning. We have only delved into a couple of stories so I look forward to finding out about different stories with my class next year.”

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Posted 2 years ago