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? Great to have a starting point that just works. Can use this as a model for further planning

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? yes

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 adds a layer of confidence in the materials

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“These stories are fantastic as research projects or as a jumping off point for further study.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? The resources added to the excitement. I am confident with local history but it was exciting to learn about other areas as well.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I am already confident with local history but love to continuously learn more.

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 great to know it was a collaboration so not one viewpoint of history but an actual representation from all sides.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“The contents of the kit were a great starting point to discover more about our local histories. The connection to a local place was very unexpected with one student having a holiday home in the very location but having no idea of the history. The students loved finding out more about their local area and using clues to do this was super fun. I added to the experience by making an interaction play with differing viewpoints (similar to a previous kit from a few years ago). The website was a bit confusing for my students but they are at the younger end of the kit's audience and I can imagine it would be more effective for older students.”

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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? N/A

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Na

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? NA

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“I haven’t used this product yet”

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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? ????

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? AS we didn't get into it or as far into it as I hoped we will continue in Term 4.

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? ???

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Sorry I will have to do this in term 4. WE didn't do anywhere as much as I thought I would.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I believed I would have gained more confidence if I had the chance to use it completly

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? The reason requesting this kit was because we were looking at our own school pepeha and exploring our local neighbourhood

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? With the young ones we looked at our own whānau/iwi stories and our taonga

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Very excited to get the kit, unfortunately, my job changed over the term and I was shifted to a Year 2&3 class. However, I still took the kit with me and used the photos and objects to form conversations about then and now and writing ideas. Due to the students being younger, we did not use online platforms or all the materials in the kit. I will click on neutral to keep my answers consistent.”

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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? Boosted my confidence - gave us great stories. Many students enjoyed digging deeper into these stories and events.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Really engaging resource that sparked interest. We dug deeper into several different events or 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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Huge. So much more meaningful.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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“Awesome resource with so many interesting and engaging stories. Teachers and students both enjoyed!”

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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'm a history teacher so feel pretty confident already but I enjoyed seeing all the possibilities of contexts and stories.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We will delve more into this kit in Term 4 but the one I chose to look at first was local. I think it could be a useful model to use in the future.

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? Gave me confidence, I liked the different voices evident in the content that could easily have been missed.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“My Year 10 history class looked at a local context, Naenae and Maori urbanization. It was great to have found a local context and the students were really engaged. We started off working digitalky with the webite resources but students found it difficult to follow and didn't really understand what they had to do. I then modified and adapted the resources to use without devices and this worked better with my 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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Neutral

Highly Effective

How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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Neutral

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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? The easy to understand instructions, tangible interesting items and research support made me confident to deliver these sessions.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I have started to use the local library to find resources of our area for the åkonga to use. We are building a local kit and the conenction with the local library has strengthened.

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? A very big impact as the åkonga made their own connections and talked about their findings at home. The stories are also from a different lens and challenged some of the thinking from our åkonga.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

Neutral

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“This is a fantastic kit to start your journey into Aotearoa Histories. Having tangible resources and easy links for research enables high engagement and critical thinking from the åkonga.”

Helpful Report

Posted 1 year ago