How inspired are your students to engage in future sustainability action?
How effective were the components of this kit?
Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them
"I still have the gloves, so I could just go around Feilding, and pick up rubbish". "I learned that the ocean makes a little line of rubbish on the sand when the tide goes out." "In the future I am going to pick up rubbish when I see it." "I found out that lots of rubbish gets picked up by the wind and then covered by sand so you cant see it, and then it can get washed out to sea".
Which kit components were the most impactful and why?
The kids enjoyed using the gloves and wanted to keep them for future beach clean ups with their families. They also liked the posters that we could glue parts of rubbish on to the bodies of sea creatures - to show the impact of rubbish in the sea. The big poster that we had to fill in was a great way to help guide us when sorting the rubbish into different groups.
How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?
one
How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability?
We already make a big effort to be clean and tidy and do local town tidy-ups, so the kids were used to doing the rubbish pick up. But seeing how this rubbish can affect the sea and sea life was quite impacting.
What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners?
They will be more likely to pick up rubbish around sea/beach areas from now on, knowing the damage that rubbish can cause when it floats out to sea.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster)
longitude: 174.9007. Latitude: 39.8847
What was your cleanup location type?
Park, Beach
Which of the following types did your class collect?
Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Tin Cans, Toys
What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why?
synthetic hair - we arent sure what it came off - but it looked like a wig/fake fur off a coat and it had been in the sea for quite a while as it had seaweed growing inside of it.