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? This is how we used this kit

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Starting small having good ole display tables with artefacts of the past. Understanding, knowing and doing. Understanding ourselves at level 1-3 was my starting point even though they are year 4//5

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 discussed only one story and used the photos from the rest of the kit. It had a different type of impact on my class as we keep junk journals and they collect all sorts of paraphernalia to put in them. Organising and writing more purposeful statements

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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“hi everyone at the beginning of this term my class did an Inquiry Learning Project on the History of Porirua. I set the kit up to spark curiosity and just as well because it leads us to thinking about all the different cultures that make our town. memorabilia and objects and souvenirs from our past contributed to the makeup of our town. We created our own kit from whanau photos of the royal family, the opening of the first Mcdonald's , Whittakers lolly paper wrappers. the hardest part was deciding what part of the history of Porirua did they want to research. It's quite amazing really we are a 50 year plus young city. but what an amazing journey . Even the building of our school. Recently we had a Flag ceremony for our local community and all seven places of education were represented. Another taonga for our school. so my class chose different things that made up a bigger picture of who they are. The kit was the best part of our Inquiry leading us into different possibilities as opposed to us focusing on particular part. The School kits are my favourite part”

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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? Absolutely. I have loved finding out more about our local context.

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 made my knowledge of NZ histories much broader, and knowing there are resources like this makes me feel more supported and capable to teach it.

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 definitely gave the stories greater meaning knowing they were coming from a reliable source.

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“Fantastic resource. Love the items that students can physically touch that go with each story. Definitely challenging, but in a good way!”

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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 kit has encouraged us in our journey to connect with local iwi and narratives.

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? I'm really looking forward to it! I'll definitely use this kit again in facilitating learning and inquiry. Thank you so much. Katie Graham.

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? People connect with stories. The ones collated in this kit were vibrant and wonderfully accessible for our learners.

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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“Thank you so much for another fabulous and engaging School 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? I could use this model in my class

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 am more confident because I have more ideas for how to support my akonga in this subject

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? Students definitely felt a stronger connection to the tapu whenua.

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“Very cool resources and hands on activities the kids loved!”

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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 a few local areas that we could create a pepeha for at the beginning of next year.

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? The kit has improved my confidence as I now know more stories that relate to Aotearoa and I know that they are true and accurate stories that i can use with my class next year.

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 that the stories in the kit were developed with iwi/whanau/community. It allowed me to feel more confident and know that I was telling a true and accurate 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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“The tamariki have enjoyed looking at all of the resources in the kit and they found the online platform engaging. We did struggle with the Pepeha side of things; however, this is something for us to work on.”

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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 was pleased to notice that there was a story about my home town included which engaged myself as well as the kids.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It was good to have valuable resources and kits to back up what I was teaching. That boosted my confidence while taking students through the tasks.

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? It made the stories easier to tell as I was confident that the stores were accurate.

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“Kids were really involved. Really likes the artefacts and the different range of stories.”

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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 don't think the kit has motivated me, we were doing it anyway.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It's made me aware of a lot more things in history that we can cover. It also gave me ideas for different ways to deliver content.

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 good to know it wasn't going to offend anyone! And that it had been researched really well.

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 high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Some really great info in here for students to access and learn more in depth about events in NZ's history. Some of the instructions were hard to follow as the teacher and it could've been simpler. The kids Great 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? -

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? The website had enough information for teachers to use.

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? -

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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“Had lots of awesome resources. Found it little tricky for my class to use.”

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Posted 2 years ago