Aotearoa NZ Histories 23 Reviews

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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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It broke down big ideas into manageable chunks.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes - keen to explore sites of local sigbnificance in more depth

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? It meant that they were accurate

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“The Aotearoa NZ Histories 23 unit was very well planned out with life like resources. These were particularly engaging and students enjoyed exploring them. The content was well pitched and had nice links across a variety of curriculum areas”

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Posted 1 year ago

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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It has help in areas that I wasn't unsure of

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We have looked at our local iwi and made connection before beginning this unit, but it would be interesting to revisit this after these lessons.

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? It gave students an wider understanding of New Zealand, a lot of them have not looked past their own bubble so it was interesting to hear their thoughts.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“It was a great tool to add onto my classroom teaching. The activities got the kids engaged and kept them wanting to do more. Loved it.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I only used the kit for a short period as I shifted in Term 4 from an Intermediate to becoming a principal.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? See above - great for my intermediate level kids. Yes could use the model but haven't had time as only teaching 2 days in a multileveled classroom

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Good glad to know that I would have less chance of upsetting anyone.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Amazing resource, with an incredible range of items to engage learners.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? As the kit has made it so easy to deliver the content, and I got to spend this term ironing out some kinks in my delivery as well as trialing various way to deliver it, I'm more confident. However, it still allows us to be on the same learning level as my students, which is often when they learn best too - when they teachers learning along with them!!

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I have recently taken the lead in the local curriculum development for my kura. I've started creating this resource based on a similar model, with a photo and then the local iwi story on the area too. I'm going to work with the iwi to also ensure I have the right pepeha for each 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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? It gave it more significance, knowing that the stories weren't all one sided (from the Europeans). It bought balance to the content.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This resource was beyond words. I used it with a group of Year 8 students and the skills it taught them as well as helped them strengthen were fantastic. It introduced them to events within NZ's history they had no idea about, and gave them the agency to explore what they were curious about, all based on an image. Even I learnt more this term about historical events than what I knew before. I'm so impressed by this kit and have raved about it to anyone who would listen.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It was a great way to approach the topics and I loved that the wheel made it so clear what part of the curriculum we were relating to.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Absolutely. We went local first and that might be what slowed us down as we then heard about other similar stories and discussed those too.

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? It was a great way to blend te reo and te ao Māori with Social Sciences. It also gave weight and credibility to the content.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“We ran out of time to look at many cards / areas so this will be part of next year's learning too. Overall this is a great resource and I love the diverse range of topics and history it looks at. It was too big for a term 4 project unfortunately but I am looking forward to getting back into it. We did strike a couple of issues finding the answers to tasks with the suggested search in past papers, but that was good to encourage a bit of creative thinking on how to get the answers.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I felt like I was confident in terms of content but it gave me some great ideas in terms of activities and how to engage students with specific aspects of history through the stories.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes there are several topics that already covered some of our local history and could be used as a model/building block to develop new content with similar activities/skills.

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? It meant that you knew that different perspectives were being covered and that you had implied consent to share those stories.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“I did the Something Happened Here School Kit with my Year 10 class for part of Term 4. I really enjoyed the range of different stories and histories that were presented and felt like there was something for everyone to be able to engage with. I gave the students agency to choose what story they wanted to engage with individually or in small groups. They enjoyed learning about different stories but found some of the tasks a bit repetitive. Having done this at the end of the year didn't help here and I would like to teach it next time earlier in the year and link in some of the stories specifically to units we study.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I felt a little more confident though wish some more of the links to the cards were completed so it would match to the learning we were doing at the time.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We live close to Ratana so I'm looking forward to exploring that topic next year.

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? I was really happy to learn that as we are partners in telling our stories to the next generation.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“I ordered the kit a little later in the year and initially, it took a while for me to wrap my head around it. As I was looking through the kit one of my students saw the flour sack and it started a huge conversation about where it came from, what happened there and what the place was like today. I found the items much better for catching my students' attention than the cards. The cards however were awesome for driving home the need to understand pepeha and how it connects us to places and people. With a little more time to unpack the kit I'm sure it will be a regular feature in our class.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? My confidence has grown, I was able to learn along side my students.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes it was very motivating, we were inspired to look into our local Marae and iwi to explore further.

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? we made links to our local history and story.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“The kit was great and the resources were all relevant to my students' age and interest level. I teach year 5 and 6. The information was self explanatory and easy to apply to my lessons.”

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Posted 1 year ago