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Sea Cleaners 23 Reviews

4.6 Rating 370 Reviews
How inspired are your students to engage in future sustainability action?
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How effective were the components of this kit?
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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them We need to pick up rubbish to save environment. I am picking up rubbish so our plants can grow.
Which kit components were the most impactful and why? gloves. It actually supports students to go out and pick up rubbish even during their play time.
How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? One bag of rubbish and few more little pieces of rubbish in our classroom bin.
How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They were actively talking about the reason why we need to pick up rubbish and recycle.
What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? I still have students coming back from play time two hands full of rubbish
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 36° 45' 46"south 174° 44' 1" east
What was your cleanup location type? School
Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Straws
What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? school rubbish
It was great to explore how rubbish affects the marine environment but it was tricky to carry out the learning during class time. Instead, we used the rubbish bag and gloves to clean up our school environment and asked the students to go to the beach and do the same at home. I did not get any feedback from the whanau but students were talking about the reason they need to pick up rubbish up afterward.
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Posted 1 year ago
How inspired are your students to engage in future sustainability action?
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How effective were the components of this kit?
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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them “I really loved learning our sea cleaners topic. It was fun and I learnt alot’
Which kit components were the most impactful and why? I left school before I got to complete this but from my kōrero with the team, it was the impact the message had
How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We did several clean up sessions
How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We have some cool sustainability initiative at school and it made it pretty awesome to be able to broaden our understanding of sustainability
What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? To tangibly broaden their knowledge was a gift
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) New teacher completed
What was your cleanup location type? School
Which of the following types did your class collect? Food Wrappers
What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Very old chippie packets
An incredible resource to inspire ākonga
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Posted 1 year ago
How inspired are your students to engage in future sustainability action?
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Highly Inspired
How effective were the components of this kit?
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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Please note I teach new entrants :-) "The gloves are good" , "I like our posters we made, then people can see the rubbish goes into animals stomachs".
Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Posters you make with rubbish pieces as we still had bags left over after making them, showing how much we can help by cleaning up, reducing rubbish etc.
How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?
How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Increased mindfulness, I have also overheard children reminding others why we need to pick up our own rubbish.
What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? We will continue to do clean ups and work progressively toward making our school more green.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) I dont think we did this part of the kit.
What was your cleanup location type? Green Space, Reserve, Beach
Which of the following types did your class collect? Food Wrappers, Household Waste, Tin Cans
What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? We found a squashed lightbulb, it was flattened so it was thick, it took us much debate and reasoning to figure out what it was
Everything you need for a successful and thought-provoking beach cleanup. We have kept our class set of gloves, and still use them for school / local cleanups.
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Posted 1 year ago
How inspired are your students to engage in future sustainability action?
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How effective were the components of this kit?
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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "We need to look after our river and not leave rubbish there". "If we all pick up rubbish it helps the fish that live there to survive".
Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves and posters about "Keep the sea /rivers rubbish free, for me".
How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? They collected 2 bags of rubbish but also the whole Junior School went down and removed branches and other things that could block the river flow.
How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It ties in beautifully with our school WAKA Values about how we look after we where live and the importance of doing this to protect all in our environment to sustain it future.
What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? What a special place we live in and how as young people we can make a positive impact and teach adults as well within our place.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Twizel River area - The Twizel River is a river of the Mackenzie Basin, in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand's South Island. Latitude: -44° 19' 49.26" S Longitude: 170° 11' .
What was your cleanup location type? River
Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Straws
What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Plastic bottles - why would people leave them there was a question raised.
This was a fantastic opportunity for students to learn about our environment and how we look after it (Kaitiakitaka), looking after our space. We used the local river as we are too far from the sea but we learned about looking after our local rivers and the impact rubbish and other things have on the sustainability of the things that live in the rivers and around them.
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Posted 1 year ago
How inspired are your students to engage in future sustainability action?
Not Inspired At All
Neutral
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How effective were the components of this kit?
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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I want to ensure rubbish doesn't get into the sea." It's important that we are kaitiaki"
Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the gloves
How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 10 + (spread across after there were many more!)
How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Yes - caring for our environment.
What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? How to look after our place
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Different ones for different groups - one was 36.90471S 174.85099E
What was your cleanup location type? Reserve
Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Plastic Cups, Food Wrappers, Household Waste
What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Sushi plastic -because so many of our learners have it for lunch!
The learners loved getting involved in the activities - they even kept asking to use the gloves again to keep our school tidy!
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Posted 1 year ago
How inspired are your students to engage in future sustainability action?
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How effective were the components of this kit?
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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them The said they did not to get their hands dirty in the garden.
Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves, that's all we received.0
How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Planting our own Kai at school
What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Planting and eating own Kai at school
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? NA
We used the gloves in our school garden. We were given these by a teacher at our school who ordered on behalf of many of us. I did not know we had to give a review.
Helpful Report
Posted 1 year ago
How inspired are your students to engage in future sustainability action?
Not Inspired At All
Neutral
Highly Inspired
How effective were the components of this kit?
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High Effective
Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "We got to use the gloves at lunch times to tidy up as garden club.", "I liked the posters and the gloves"
Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves and posters - Great talking points and promotes engagement
How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We did multiple rubbish hunts using the gloves during the term.
How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The kids are more aware of the impact they can have and are more thoughtful on how little actions can have big results.
What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They are responsible kaitiaki.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Didn't complete
What was your cleanup location type? School, Other
Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Food Wrappers, Tin Cans
What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Food packets because we don't eat anywhere near where they were found and that got the kids thinking about how rubbish doesn't just "disappear"
This school kit has been an amazing centre resource for our pollution focus for term 4. The gloves act as a great engagement tool for the kids. This resource was used along SPCA books that focused on pollution of our waterways and the protection of our wildlife. We talked about being kaitiaki of our environment and doing what we can do to minimise rubbish. We dont have many waterways that are close by so we looked at the street drains that are often filled with rubbish and affect our water systems as a result.
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Posted 1 year ago
How inspired are your students to engage in future sustainability action?
Not Inspired At All
Neutral
Highly Inspired
How effective were the components of this kit?
Not Effective At All
Neutral
High Effective
Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Completing this from home, sorry. Haven't been able to collect student voice.
Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The eco-friendly gloves and strong paper bags were great - meant we were practicing what we were preaching, by not using plastic for the clean up. Plus the gloves protected the children's hands and they took them home to wash and re-use for gardening and more litter picking.
How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We filled multiple bags of rubbish. In total, our syndicate of 99 students collected 750 pieces of rubbish from our local beach.
How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? This kit has raised awareness of the need to dispose of rubbish responsibly, and even more than that, to reduce consumption of goods that contain rubbish. The children have since come to tell me that they've been picking up litter at lunchtimes to keep our playgrounds clean and to stop rubbish from flying into our beautiful, natural environment.
What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? It's brought about awareness on the impact we have on planet Earth.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Raumati South Beach
What was your cleanup location type? Beach
Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Plastic Cups, Food Wrappers, Straws, Tyres, Household Waste, Tin Cans, Toys
What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? We found a number of halloween sweet wrappers, as we conducted the beach clean up a few days after 31 October.
We used the Sea Cleaners 23 kit as part of our inquiry, 'Guardians of Zealandia'. The topic explored the big themes of our living world - life processes, ecology, evolution and biodiversity. We looked at the impact that humans can have, both positive and negative, on our natural world and each other. The Sea Cleaners kit fitted perfectly into this inquiry. We went as a syndicate down to our local beach and used the equipment to clean the surrounding area. 750 pieces of rubbish were collected in total. We were very grateful to have the gloves and bags to safely pick up and dispose of the rubbish. The online resources have also been marvellous too.
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Posted 1 year ago