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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 We need to make sure there is no plastic flying around so that it doesn't harm the turtles. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is huge - we need to stop it growing.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Posters of marine animals - this really shocked the children, Rubbish clean-up resources - to see how much rubbish is actually in our environment.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We are now very aware of not leaving rubbish lying around, and also how we can use less plastic in our lunches.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Ongoing awareness of the importance of caring for our environment

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -40.662951., 175.250829

What was your cleanup location type? Park

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Burnt-out tyre

“Our Sea Cleaners kit was a great starting point and lead-in to our Inquiry into Kaitiakitanga and caring for our local environment. My class enjoyed investigating our local area using Google Maps, and finding where our waterways and streams end up. They have become obsessed about plastic ending up in the ocean!”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Ooooo yuck I don't want to swim with rubbish. Hey pick up your rubbish and look after our planet.

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

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 4 over 3 visits

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The boys are more aware that what happens to the rubbish affects the land and the environment. We even had a go at sorting the recycling. We then reused some of it to make our creations.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? they will look after Papatūānuku more and encourage their friends and family to as well

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) didn't look at this sorry

What was your cleanup location type? School, Other

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? a pot with a broken handle. We unscrewed the handle and bought it back to our sandpit.

“This was a great kit and our class loved having the gloves to make them feel special when they were cleaning up. We enjoyed finding pukapuka in our school library to read about cleaning up, rubbish and looking after our planet. This led on nicely as we had learnt about our solar system last term. It wasn't suitable to take our class to the beach so we cleaned up our school and the streets around us. We saw the dolphin by the drains to remind us that everything that goes down the drain ends up at the beach. The boys thought it was hilarious that they would be swimming with rubbish!”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them 'Having hands on experience makes learning more fun.' 'It's relevant to us because we have so much wood on our beaches and in our rivers.'

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? All of them

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Still collecting once a week.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Inspired them to be aware and do more to help.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? One person can make a diffrence

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -38.649300 178.135000

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? cell phone as we weren't sure if it was lost or dumped.

“This kit is a practical and convenient way to introduce the concept of keeping our oceans clean.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them We talked about where they wanted to collect rubbish from and it was suggested at the beach, after reading a book about the rubbish hurting the animals there.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Being able to be visual about how much rubbish they have collected and so we can display them and they can be proud of their achievement

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We did this activity as a syndicate and I believe we collected 8 bags of weeds and rubbish altogether when we went to the beach together

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They learnt that the world that we live in is a gift and something we need to look after since we are the ones who use it.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? How to be sustainable at home and even when they are out and about with their families. They have been really keen on keeping the school clean and talking to others about why we need to and how we can

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) We didn't cover this, as it was too advance for the students

What was your cleanup location type? School, Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Food Wrappers

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? It was interesting seeing wire and string at the beach and watching the kids pulling more and more out. They were impressed with how long some of the pieces were

“We linked this to our Sustainability inquiry for the term and used the gloves for a sea clean-up activity at the beach. They were really good visuals for the students and made connections to what they could be doing at home. They learned about recycling and reducing their waste and everything linked together and the students had a lot of fun.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I loved that we each got to have our own gloves to pick up the rubbish with." "It was good to go out and help our community by picking up some rubbish, especially the plastic by the sea. We found some pretty gross stuff so it was good we had gloves on."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves and bag, allowed the children to take action (point of the unit) to help our local environment.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 2 large bags

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It has made them aware of the damage rubbish and plastics do to the sea life in particular.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? It is something they will remember for a long long time.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) didn't use the poster.

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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? The children found lighters the most interesting and it caused great debate if they were plastic or not.

“We are a class of 26 year 6s and loved the sea cleaners kit. We were focussing on plastics in our ocean and the damage it causes. We went for a class trip to the aquarium and then spent our time picking up rubbish using the gloves provided (to keep us clean and safe) and paper bags.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them no kit

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? no kit

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? we tested the stream water instead

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? it would have

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) n/a

What was your cleanup location type? Other

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? n/a

“We did not receive our Sea Cleaners kit at all this term so disappointing.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them When we first started looking we thought there would not be much rubbish at all. But to our surprise we found two council orange bags full of rubbish along the beach. PoppyMonty On this graph you can see how much rubbish we found in the 20 minutes we spent picking up rubbish. 23% was soft plastics and this is the most common rubbish we have in our lunch boxes. 15% was hard plastic and this was mainly fizzy bottles which is not good for our teeth or the ecosystem as it ends up in the growing 5 gyres. These are giant garbage patches of rubbish floating in our ocean. 121 bits of soft plastic was found. These were chocolate and lolly wrappers especially Hi Chews and mentos packets. We think we found these because lollies and snacks foods are easy to talk to the each and park. They are light and can drift away easy. Soft plastic never biodegrade but they take 450 years to break down to tiny mico plastics which our fish will mistakes for eggs and eat over the next 450 years. 80 Tin cans were found. This was shocking as they can be easily recycled and given another life. We think these people are lazy. We should always recycle our tin and aluminium cans at the recycling centre. Did you know cans take 200 years to rust, break down and biodegradable in the ocean.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gear to pick up rubbish, ideas for making river system. Class made a model of our local river system.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 2 full brown bags

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Active changes to waste plastic in our daily life. Educating patents about making better choices

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Class is growing popcorn plants to sell to encourage patents not to buy pre popped packets. Making fabric wraps and bees wax wraps to sell to reduce plastic waste,

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) napier south

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? fireworks

“A well-set-out kit. Gave many opportunities for the students to explore water and how important it is to our environment. Lots of thought-provoking experiences and resources.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them 1) The bags were nice and big. 2) The gloves kept my hands safe.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The rubbish bags, because there were heaps and biodegradable.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? All of them were filled all the way up.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The work they put in to the cleanup made them mindful of the amount of rubbish around at the beach.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? A perfectly clean Mt Maunganui beach for one day.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) X

What was your cleanup location type? Native Bush, Park, 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? A mountain bike

“The gear you sent was awesomely helpful for our cleanup.”

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Posted 1 year ago