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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 "If a fish got stuck in this net is would have died"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Tools to help children clean the beach. Visual posters of pollution.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Supported our topic Kaitiakitanga

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Clean up our beach, impacts litter has on the moana

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

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, Household Waste, Tin Cans, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? matress in the dunes

“My Year 5/6 class thoroughly enjoyed engaging in a beach clean up and were appreciative of the sea cleaners gloves, rubbish bags and kit which had everything that you needed for a hikoi to the beach. As a teacher, I found the support materials to be highly effective, the visual posters were great and a great way to display the rubbish that we had collected.”

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Posted 10 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them We found so much rubbish at the beach. I enjoyed reseraching about how long it would take to breakdown. Our Inquiry was really interesting, especially collecting data on the types of rubbish we found.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The rubbish detail cards which helped to identify what kind of rubbish tamariki were finding.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 5 (filled a whole wheelie bin)

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Kids are more enthusastic about looking after the local community, not just the beach but our KURA environment. They are keen to keep educating others about the impact of littering.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Learning about their local community and how to look after their mana whenua

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 41.1060° S, 174.8356° E

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Oven tray - the kids found it really bizzarre that we found it at the beach

“The tamariki really enjoyed using this kit and learning how to care for our community and beach. It lead to some passionate learners who were keen to educate the wider community about how to better look after our local beach.”

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Posted 10 months ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "can i keep the gloves"? "so if we don't put our rubbish in the bin someone has to pick it up"?

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves were awesome! made picking up rubbish that much more motivating.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? An understanding of how our rubbish can effect the world if not put in the bin.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? A practical way to experience the rubbish that gets thrown away.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 36.8012° S, 174.7882° E

What was your cleanup location type? School, Beach

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? Between picking up rubbish at the local beach, and within our school, we found a lot unrelated rubbish in the school. Supermarket packets, gloves etc.

“This kit was awesome. In a special education class i am always looking for different ways to teach the same thing over and over again. This kit was a practical way to get kids outside of the classroom, while teaching couting/statistics etc at the same time.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I didn't know there was so much hard plastic at the beach. There are so many tiny bits of plastice that sea creatures can eat.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The sorting things because it helped the kids understand more fully the types of rubbish.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It has reinforced an ongoing focus.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Understanding of how plastic deteriorates and gets everywhere.

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

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? An old New World shopping bag that was plastic and deteriorating - because they don't have them anymore.

“The kids were engaged with sorting the rubbish and the gloves meant everyone got involved, thanks”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "We made a cool river" "I loved doing the art from the clean-up rubbish and we got some gloves that were cool". "My favourite was the big chart thing and I didnt know what lattitude and longitude was until that"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The clean-up and recording of the rubbish found. The kids were horrified! Great idea to do the posters as they had a big impact. The kids were talking about how sad it was that these animals had all the rubbish in their stomachs as they created the art.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? nearly 1

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We are an enviroschool and do the Garden to Table programme so the kids have quite a bit of knowledge and awareness already but this kit definitely ignited a spark and they were able to build on what they knew

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? An awareness of the impact that humans have on their local environment and the need to think about this

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 41.3149 degrees (longitude). 174.8187 degrees (latitude)

What was your cleanup location type? Beach, Other

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? plastic bags - they were supermarket bags and some of the kids were confused about why they were there because we dont use them at our shops anymore

“This kit fit in beautifully with our inquiry around the impact that humans have had on our local moana. I were also able to incorporate it easily into my class writing and reading programme. I loved the way that it encompassed lots of learning areas.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I love having the gloves and I wrote my name on it." "We picked up rubbish to stop it from blowing into the sea."

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

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They were motivated to put their gloves on to pick up rubbish.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? We need to take care of our school environment.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 36.6066° S; 174.6786° E

What was your cleanup location type? 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? Pieces of slushie cup straws etc from the fair.

“My class was very excited to each get their own set of gloves and eagerly labeled their gloves and stored it in their trays for easy access. We had a big fair at our school and our class used the gloves and bags and walked around the school picking up rubbish before and after the event; they did not want the rubbish to blow into the stream or the estuary nearby.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them 'The posters with the rubbish I liked as it made me thing of the animals to save'

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

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 3 big black rubbish bags

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? less littering at break eating times

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Care for our planet

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

What was your cleanup location type? Park, School

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? Buckie

“It was fantiastic to get resources to support the chn to be a good citizen by looking after the whenea and moana/awa/whanga”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "It was crazy how much rubbish people leave one the beach!" "Why don't people take their rubbish with them. It's so bad for the animals."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The rubbish collecting gear made the biggest impact as we looked at the filled bags after the clean up and saw all the different types of rubbish left on the beach. The children were amazed at the different types.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We took extra bags and collected 7.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Everyone is more aware of the waste they are producing and what they are doing with their waste.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They want to protect their spaces for the animals and future generations.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -46.439954, 168.231314

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, Household Waste, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? The micro plastics. They were amazed at how many pieces there were.

“This kit was amazing for my class to be able to see in real time the impact of peoples actions on the environment.”

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