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How inspired are your students to engage in future sustainability action?

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I like that we were able to clean up our awa and make it safer for animals," "We got to plan it ourselves and learned a lot by doing that"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The resources and structure of how to plan a sea clean up because it was all student driven.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Being more mindful of the plastic we use and the actions made when actually seeing rubbish outside because we don't want it to go in our awa.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Planning for action and change.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 177.98, -38.64

What was your cleanup location type? School

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Household Waste

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Fidget toys because it must have been dropped when a class walked over the bridge to get to swimming.

“Such a fun and engaging kit that gets tamariki thinking about change they can make. Also the skills they learned through the process of designing their own clean up was amazing!”

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Posted 4 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I can't believe people would leave their rubbish on the beach. Next time I go to the beach I am going to pick up what I see to help our environment" "

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The actual rubbish collection and then sorting it into different categories

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? As a whole school we collected 15 bags of rubbish

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They have more of an insight into how harmful rubbish can be fore our land and the animals in our sea. They understand that it takes a long time fore the rubbish we found to breakdown and are inspired to help make a change

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They are more aware of how their actions can affect the environment around them and want to make a change

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 37.1417° S, 174.7153° E

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Straws, Household Waste

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? slippers because who wears them to the beach?

“We used the sea cleaners kit as a whole school experience to inform our topic. The tamariki in our hub really enjoyed going to the beach and hunting for rubbish. They were shocked by some of the items they found lying amonst the seaweed. The data collected had a big impact on the kids”

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Posted 4 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them We found some really weird things! I found it that interesting to look in the soil and see if I can find plastic.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Practical tools for rubbish pick-up, poster to organise data

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 1 full bag

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Awareness around ways of reducing rubbish with our Waste-Free Wednesday luncbox challenge.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Ways of reducing, refusing, or recycling rubbish.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 177.88, -38.64

What was your cleanup location type? Creek, Native Bush

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Plastic Cups, Food Wrappers, Straws, Household Waste, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Perfume bottle - kids were also fascinated by the 2 full beer bottles we found!

“This was a great way to explore the impact of our school rubbish on the local environment. We went down after the rain to look at rubbish that had washed up down the drain. We also discussed the trends amongst the rubbish - where we thought it had come from, the fact that lots of them were food wrappers, and that there were lots of small pieces of rubbish hidden in the ground.”

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Posted 5 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them 1. I liked learning about plastics in the ocean and how we can stop it. 2. The posters were good and i liked getting to the beach toclean it up.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Posters and gloves

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It's made them think about their local environment and how they can look after it.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? It's made them think about their local environment and how they can look after it. It's also made them aware on how they can cut down on plastic and rubbish.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Can't recall, sorry.

What was your cleanup location type? Reserve, Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Straws

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Big pieces of polysturene.

“Having the gloves was a great idea and good resources.”

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Posted 5 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I did not know that the rivers could be this long. I noticed that not all rivers all lead to the ocean.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Using the gloves and bags for our clean up helped them to be more prepare for their planning.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 4

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It has made us to be a better kaitiakitanga.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The children will remember just how precious our waterways are. How vulnerable our ecosystems are.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) We did not measure this.

What was your cleanup location type? River

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Plastic Cups, Food Wrappers, Straws, Tin Cans, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? pot, we did not expect to find one there.

“The kit was very useful and it fitted in very nicely with out Term inquiry. The tasks could be adapted to online creativity with the mock river. Students were engaged through out the whole unit, coming up with plans on how to clean up a river or a water way. It made them think about the local rivers around them. How clean are our waterways?”

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Posted 6 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I'm amazed at what people just throw away without thinking of what happens to it. Collecting and sorting rubbish was pretty gross but lucky we had protective gloves for the old stuff. We need to make sure we keep our backyards clean so the fish and sea life don't live in a rubbish dump.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? N/a

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The kids have been really engaged in being kaitiaki of there whenua and made poster for rubbish collection and have a worm farm at school. They wrote letter home requesting that their parents decrease the amount of plastic wrapping in their lunchboxes.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Growing awareness of sustainable living and they can take action to support a cleaner planet.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Not sure

What was your cleanup location type? School, River

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Plastic Cups, Food Wrappers, Straws

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Chip packets because they found so many of them. The kids were shocked with the collective amount

“The kids in my classroom enjoyed the learning and exploring the human impact on our water world. They were amazed at what the collected in a short amount of time and learned about the no decomposition of many packaged products that pollute our waterways. Great hands on learning.”

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Posted 6 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Levi stated that he couldn't believe the amount of rubbish that was discovered under bushes in the park next to the beach. He was surprised to find a car tyre there. Noah stated that he liked exploring along the coast line and discoverd that some rubbish got tangled up in the seaweed. He wodnered if it had come from off a boat in the ocean.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Having the rubbish bags and gloves helped the students to engage particularly as they were labelled with sea cleaners on them

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 10 bags

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Initially there was a lot of discussion about the types of rubbish that was discovered as some larger items were found such as car tyres. Ongoing discussion is required to be mindful about rubbish and where it can land up.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The biggest impact is the "hidden" rubbish is everywhere and for everyone to be mindful to pick up pieces of rubbish whenever they notice it.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Latitude -37.13687° or 37° 8' 13" south Longitude 174.70449° or 174° 42' 16" east

What was your cleanup location type? Reserve, Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Straws, Tyres, Household Waste, Tin Cans, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? car tyre - the sheer size of it being dumped by a beach was astonishing thing for the students to have discovered that was dumped

“This was a very successful activity. Our Y5&6 classes visited Clarks Beach and collected up an enormaous amount of rubbish. This was surprising because at first glance the beach looked very clean until we began to pick up rubbsih and discovered bags and bags full.”

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Posted 6 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them We should buy a large bags of chips and put a handful in our lunchbox. I like to be part of the Wednesday warriors team so I can help picking up the rubbish of the schoolfield.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? When we looked at packeting and saw how much we bring to school in one week.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? That week in total of one bag

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They realise that they are the kaitiaki of this area and need to step up to make it a better place.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Even that our action are small, it makes a difference

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 41.1069° S, 174.8681° E

What was your cleanup location type? Green Space, School

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Plastic Cups, Food Wrappers, Straws

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Packet of chips as there was so many of them.

“I used this kit as part of Plastic Free July this year. Our school is close to the Porirua Harbour. The amount of single-use plastic has increased over the last year when I wasn't teaching, so I decided to tackle this issue with my class. The ākonga in my class also worked togeter with a buddy class and we are re-introducing Waste Free Wednesdays for our whole school again, lunchboxes that have no single-use plastic in it.”

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Posted 8 months ago