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? Definitely a good starting point. There was a lot in there that I didn't know so it was nice to have a little bit of a lot of different things.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I found some of the questions where a bit confusing and not very clear but the model itself was great. I just told my students they could chose what level reading/questions they wanted to do.

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? The students were really engaged because they were able to recognise people and places

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 high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This box had everything I needed to hook the students in and start them on their discovery of New Zealand's history. It took me a little while to get my own head around it and understand where to go and what to do but once I had that clear in my own head, it made it very easy for me to facilitate the students. We did some journeys together so we all knew exactly how it worked and then students chose their own paths as they moved through the cards. This was the base of my whole term's planning and it was deep and rich. I have no doubt this kit will come out again year after year.”

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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 gives a wide-ranging set of resources and stories, from different parts of New Zealand, that I didn't know about.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I definitely want to find out more about the Manawatu area. My students are year 3-4, so the model used would have to be very teacher guided.

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? That is very important - getting the stories told correctly is key.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“We haven't yet had a chance to unpack the stories with our students, but we enjoyed reading through the stories at a team meeting. We were specifically looking for stories from Palmerston North, as we wanted to begin with local history.”

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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? Greatly.

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

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? This was great to know because I am a bilingual class this was exactly the type of resource required for teaching and learning.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Great resource particularly if you want your student to learn/know about the events, businesses and other kaupapa that shaped New Zealand. I love the fact that Pepeha is a clue used to support students with their research and that there are resources for both students and teachers to use. Unfortunately, I don't think that we did this resource the justice it deserves as I received the resource midway through term 3. Although, I had the students at least use the cards provided to research some of the cards. Even I learn things I never knew happened.”

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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? Increased my confidence. Helped me to see how we can use local stories and local ideas, and helped me to see how we can help our children to do this, we don't have to have all the answers ahead of time.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Definitely could use this model. I'm thinking of creating some similar stories on a much smaller and simpler scale that we could use with younger 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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Helped my confidence - I felt I could be more certain about the content and what was being presented.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“I used this kit as part of our literacy programme. I went through the postcards before using them with my class and selected stories relating to our inquiry focus for the year - food. Originally I thought I would use 6 postcards, but we only got through three stories in reality. I have Year 4 - 6 learners, working in Level 3 of the curriculum. The children were in mixed ability groups, and chose the postcard that they wanted to work on. From a literacy perspective, the postcards supported multi-modal 'reading' and 'writing'. The children took notes as they worked, and wrote a report about their learning at the end. The postcards also supported our inquiry work, and put a personal story / link to some of the ideas we had already talked about in class. As an example - the Mauka story provided evidence for the idea that different foods came to Aotearoa with immigrant families. The children hadn't really understood this idea until they worked on the Mauka story. Perhaps most importantly - my children LOVED this kit. They asked if they could continue working at break times, or take the work home to complete. They said they felt like 'detectives', and they loved the idea that they were discovering this information for themselves - they felt like they were the first people to find this information out! They're very keen to continue learning in this way. They made links across the different types of information, and made links with what they already knew from previous learning. This kit is BRILLIANT, and everyone should try 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? Definitely helped it

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes could use this as a great platform to spring off of for local histories

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? Great - and really useful getting access to resources that are hard to find. Well collated

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, National Library

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This has been a great resource for my Year 10 students to use. I made slides to go with this based around importance of local histories, our local history and turangawaewae to introduce the unit. I also taught them about usefulness and reliability of sources. It would be useful to include a tab on that for teachers who are not History trained but are using the kit. It has been interesting to see what skills they have and what skills they are learning to develop through the different types of resources. The organisation and use of different digital resources has made these a lot more accessible and this will be of significant benefit for my students who choose to take history in Year 11. The instructions on how to analyse a photo were good but it would be great to see some extra resources on how to actually use Papers Past, Digital NZ and strengths / limitations of different types of resources. I didn’t teach them how to specifically complete all tasks but left it as self guided to see how they unpacked and understood and used the different resources. Some of them struggled but worked their way through challenging questions. The use of photos and artefacts definitely elevated this and made it a lot more interesting - ie not just digital. Some of the questions were a little unclear and missing links but we were able to problem solve around this. Having taught Year 7-13 for 9 years it does seem a little too difficult for students below Year 9 to tackle this independently but for teachers to unpack and build their own units around or focusing on one story it is an excellent resource. Great range of topics and stories throughout as well.”

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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 feel a lot more confident

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

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 felt a sense of reassurance knowing that the perspectives and stories presented were authentic and not just from the lens of researches or 'outsiders' looking in

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“An awesome kit to explore stories connected to people and places, in a highly engaging and informative way.”

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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 am much more likely to use it. I probably need some more support with using the teacher support materials because I don't feel like I can navigate them very well.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? So much 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 made me feel more confident that I wasn't 'white-washing' Aotearoa history - that there were more voices being shared

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 is an incredibly structured resource. It is great to do student led or teacher led depending on where you are at with the inquiry process. Awesome to also do in bite sized chunks or all together. The student facing website is awesome - could potentially be split (rather than 3 columns) for those students where it became cognitive overload and required students to abstract the information only pertaining to them. Could you just have different pages within the same website?”

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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? Supported

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? Very helpful

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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“The photos and information booklet was very informative and helped support my topic.”

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Posted 1 year ago