What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The impact of space debri lots of discussion around what happens to satellites when they are past their used by date. Where does space rubbish end up.

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In what ways did this kit impact student attitude towards environmentalism? Awareness that each corner of our globe contributes to the big problem so if we can start making changes in our corner of the world we can make an break better world

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How has this kit impacted on your class culture? Yes

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How many hours did your class volunteer for your cleanup? Half an hour once a week

“Highly recommended kit. The amount of panui and korero surrounding our moana and the habitat of our Sea creatures was awesome. Sea Cleaners was a great catalyst for so many sidetracked discussions”

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Posted 1 year ago

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? sustainability

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In what ways did this kit impact student attitude towards environmentalism? they encouraged others to put rubbish in bin

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How has this kit impacted on your class culture? they work better together as a team

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“the children loved collecting the rubbish to glue onto the sea creatures. They displayed them and discussed why we should protect our oceans”

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Posted 1 year ago

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We were able to delve more concretely into topics of geography and mapwork, after looking at things like latitude, longitude and types of areas.

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In what ways did this kit impact student attitude towards environmentalism? Students learned a lot about which pieces of plastic (which numbers) were recyclable. They were concerned about their local environment and have mentioned that they have done family beach cleanups since.

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How has this kit impacted on your class culture? There has been a positive impact. We continue to discuss elements brought to light in this kit.

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“This was an excellent kit that really helped to motivate my students to engage in caring for our environment, while learning so much at the same time. It was so useful to actively engage our students in giving back to the community too.”

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Posted 1 year ago

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Making sure we keep our school environment by each class having an area to be responsible for.

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In what ways did this kit impact student attitude towards environmentalism? It was a practical way to highlight how we can make small changes to improve our local environment

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How has this kit impacted on your class culture? They now have a school environment they are responsible for and actively take their lunch litter home with them or try to have packet free lunch boes.

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How many hours did your class volunteer for your cleanup? 6 hours in total and our school enviro group are still using the gloves for gardening and enviro porjects.

“We used this kit at the beginning of term 2. The gloves were great for keeping our beach clean and even used them to clean our school environment. It was great to use the sustainable rubbish bags and even shared the amount of rubbish collected with the school to highlight the importance of cleaning up our local environment. Thank you for the resources.”

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Posted 1 year ago

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I would like to teach my kids this kit

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In what ways did this kit impact student attitude towards environmentalism? Sorry haven't used it

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Sorry haven't used it

How has this kit impacted on your class culture? Sorry haven't used it

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How many hours did your class volunteer for your cleanup? Sorry haven't used it

“Kia ora I have been unable to use my sea cleaners kit as it was in my car the day of Cyclone Gabrielle. My car was a write off as water got through it all.”

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Posted 1 year ago

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? How we can also think about the school grounds environment as well as local rivers or ponds. Class monitors were chosen for area around our classroom and playground

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In what ways did this kit impact student attitude towards environmentalism? Awareness generated the learners thinking and emotions especially to how our sea creatures were impacted from the litter etc. Some children then explained that whilst on a beach walk they would take a bag to collect litter.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 3 in total

How has this kit impacted on your class culture? To take ownership of our environment and the creatures that may live there. Awareness of how the birds may eat litter thinking it’s food.

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How many hours did your class volunteer for your cleanup? 4 1/2 hours over a 4 week period.

“My year 3 students enjoyed the posters and were able to gain from them to help reflect and design their own posters. This linked in well with Sea Week. The gloves were also a hit and gave them ownership on how to re use and not dispose of after one use. The paper bags aided a class conversation in regards to why not plastic bags and then led the conversation back to sea pollution and their designing of posters. We also made a link to the use of paper bags for shopping etc. We also then looked at our findings to distinguish the different types of litter and where it came from. Such as, public or big companies.”

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Posted 1 year ago

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Our school's Conservation Club benefits from my teaching experience of using this resource as I am able to use the Sea Cleaners learning activities and resources to spread the message to more students. As a school. caring for the environment is one of our 'big ideas' that we explore every few years so it will be valuable for the future.

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In what ways did this kit impact student attitude towards environmentalism? It provided our young children with a resource that helped them understand the importance of taking personal action for the planet as well as the tools to complete the hand-on / real-world activity of our beach clean-up.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We took 180 junior children with us to the beach and each of our 10 junior classes collected one big paper sack of rubbish. Unfortunately, or fortunately... whichever way you look at it! A couple of days beforehand, the local community had had the same idea we had and cleaned up the beach! This was great news really for all fans of the environment as it showed our learners' that many different groups in our community care about our coastal environments.

How has this kit impacted on your class culture? Young children are passionate about wildlife! Once they realised that animals were being harmed by different types of rubbish present in our water environments, they created posters to promote the importance of caring for the environment. This year, I have a new class who are Rubbish Warriors too and are motivated to take care of our school environment by picking up rubbish without being asked.

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How many hours did your class volunteer for your cleanup? We spent a day at the beach. The beach clean up activity was 1-2 hours.

“Our Pod of Year 2 teachers all signed up to receive the Sea Cleaners kit to support our integrated unit about taking personal action for the planet. We travelled to Foxton Beach to clean up our precious local coastal environment. The Sea Cleaners kit and supporting learning activities raised our learners' awareness that all rubbish ends up in the sea and of the 5 Rs of Recycling: Refuse, Reduce, Reduce, Recycle, and Repurpose.”

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Posted 1 year ago

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? How we can be lifelong learners and continue to be a kaitiaki in the area.

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In what ways did this kit impact student attitude towards environmentalism? They were already aware of the importance of environmentalism as majority of the students at the school work on farms.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Over the term, we would have collected around 8 bags around our school.

How has this kit impacted on your class culture? Working as a team, and making change collectively helped with our class culture

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How many hours did your class volunteer for your cleanup? 10 hours overall - including school pick ups in the afternoons each week.

“The sea cleaners kit was great and had some great resources included in the kit. We didn't have access to a beach close to the school where I was working, so we decided to create a big cleanup of the area instead of the waterways. It taught our students the importance of recycling and making sure that plastic does not enter our oceans. As we are surrounded by water, my students already understand that the water and the creatures that live in it are taonga, so straight away they could connect with being a Kaitiaki.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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