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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 'It was fun picking up rubbish so the river and the sea can be clean' -Haidee, 'I liked saving the environment' - Ellie, 'It was good to pick up the rubbish because it's good for our environment and we're helping the world stay clean.' - Noah, 'It's sad seeing all the rubbish around and some animals get stuck in the rubbish.' - Saej, 'I could see the difference after we'd picked up the rubbish. It looked so much better' - Makaia 'It was good we had the gloves or we would have had really dirty hands!' - Amelia

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The videos were very impactful because they shared information with the students to inform them of why they were going to pick up rubbish. The actual picking up of rubbish on the day was also impactful because they could see the difference after we were done.

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 already have a Green Team at school that most of my class is a part of. The Green Team picks up rubbish around the school and we've planted native trees too so this kit continued to help reinforce the message we want to put forward that the environment matters and we need to take care of it.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? My learners are very worried about animals eating or getting stuck in plastic in the ocean. After watching the videos and seeing how many plastic bottles etc rubbish we picked up they are much more aware of the need to use less plastic.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Latitude -37.488757 Longitude 175.163937

What was your cleanup location type? River, Other

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bottles, Plastic Cups, Tyres, Household Waste, Tin Cans

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? The most interesting piece of rubbish was a golf ball.

“My class of Year 3/4 students enjoyed all parts of the Sea Cleaners Kit! We've been learning about the Waikato River so the Sea Cleaners kit was a perfect fit for our inquiry. The videos included in the teacher's guide were very informative and enjoyed by the students. They helped students to understand the effects of rubbish being carried down the river to the sea. The social action artworks also made a strong statement to the students. The gloves and rubbish bags were very handy and it was nice not to have to go and get those for our rubbish pick up.”

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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. Just pick it up - it's not that hard! 2. Think about what you buy and what it will look like if it ends up in our oceans

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The posters were amazing - we used hot glue guns to attach different types of rubbish. We have displayed these and have had so many responses to the display.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 4 full ones

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? I think this will have a massive impact. Some children have already been back to our beach to gather rubbish. They also noted how much of the rubbish could have initially been recycled

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That we must change - what we purchase, how we recycle and dispose of our rubbish. And that even if the beach looks clean on the surface, look closer and you will be horrified at what you find.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Sorry not sure - will need to look again

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? Probably the number of different sized balls was what captured the students interest most.

“Great to have all of the safety equipment required to carry out our beach clean, and enough resource for 2 classes. We were able to gather way too much rubbish, but the real work happened with the categorising and classifying back in class.”

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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 enjoyed the creek clean because I was able to help protect the environment. It made an impact on me because I don't want rubbish to end up in the waterways.

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

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The class are more aware of how we can be kaitiaki and support whenua ora.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They want to continue to keep their local environment clean.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 174.95524, -41.20006

What was your cleanup location type? Creek

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A cellphone

“Our syndicate had looked at the Rocky Shore and being kaitiaki in Term 2, so this School Kit was perfect for our tamariki and reinforced what they had already learned. It was great to see the ākonga engaged and wanting to protect and care for the environment. We also saw the tamariki working well together with their peers.”

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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 want to do more then a beach clean up, we need to get rid of plastic bottles" "We need to pick up our rubbish so it doesn't go into our local stream"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The big recycling bags and gloves. The students did not think we would be able to fill the 4 bags full of rubbish as they were so large. It was a huge eye opener for them when we came back to school with every bag full!

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 4 bags were full!

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We have since had a school kaitiakitanga day and did a big clean up of the school. Students are also aware of recycling and we have created a special bin for soft plastics collection

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? To make them more aware of the impact that rubbish has world wide. They were shocked by the amount of rubbish they collected and to imagine this was just from one beach!

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

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? The amount of plastic bags we found

“This kit was fantastic! It was a great set-up for our school-wide inquiry about guardianship. We have completed a beach cleanup and this has also led into a school cleanup. The students were very enthusiastic and loved the hands-on nature of this inquiry learning. They are currently learning more about ocean pollution and ways we can help stop rubbish leading to our water ways!”

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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 Students sharing their their ideas and understanding around Kaitiakitanga and looking after our environment beyond the sea. Our class advocating for rubbish tidy up, to our Junior Team by addressing at morning assembly our findings.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The posters were a great way to display everything and also raised questions from guests who visited our room.

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

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Huge engagement and questioning around kaitiakitanga and how we can be the people who make change in our school and community.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Being action makers, empowered and making positive change.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Information lost (around 20mx area)

What was your cleanup location type? Native Bush, 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? Large planks of wood that people had used for mountain bike tricks.

“The Sea Cleaner kit was such a fun hands-on kit for my akonga! They loved using the bright and colourful posters to display their findings and as a busy teacher I was given a school trip idea. Our tamariki were so motivated from this experience that they went on to ask about being kaitiaki at our school. We gathered, grouped and displayed rubbish we found around our kura and shared the findings with our junior school team. Thank you for the Sea Cleaner Kit! It has empowered our class to be self-motivated action takers.”

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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: I like making sure our water does not get polluted so that we can look after all the sea animals 2: I think looking after the environment is really important as we need to make sure the earth is safe for the future generations

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The posters with the sea animals really put things into perspective. Lot's of animal lovers in our class and it made them even more inspired to keep the sea clean.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Student's brainstormed ideas as to how we can reduce the amount of rubbish at school (plastic free lunches, more bins on the field) and even ask to do litter collection as they want to keep the school (and the sea) clean!

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? I think student's will take this learning and apply it to their daily life. Student's will be more conscious of the decisions they make around waste and how we can protect the earth.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) n/a - we did a clean up around the school rather than at the beach. We installed litter traps in our drains and that's how we made the connection to rubbish going into the ocean.

What was your cleanup location type? School

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? disposable face masks - not many people still wear these so they must have been lying on the ground for a long time!

“This was an awesome kit that worked well with our school's sustainability unit. Student's were very engaged while we were sorting through rubbish. The video about what happens to plastic was very eye-opening.”

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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 "Can I take these home to use on the weekend?" "Can we do this again"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the teacher notes gave me a great starting point for how to best use the resource.

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 are more aware of the rubbish around the school and it has started to come into their general conversations.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Hopefully, they will continue to pick up rubbish and be more aware of issues around waste.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) From one end of the beach to the other (Petone Beach, 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? We found a wrapper that had writing in a different language so we hypothesised how it got there.

“There was great information in here and the kids loved the gloves. It made them realise that people are serious about cleaning up our oceans and waterways.”

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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 What would happen if the tide washes this out to see. The people that left this are lazy.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The bags and gloves were great, thanks

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 4 bags were used but were not full.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We talked about how things have changed and supermarkets no longer use plastic bags and what things would be like if we still had plastic bags and where they end up if they wash out to sea/ landfills etc

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The experience enabled the children to see the effect of how rubbish from the drains can end up in the sea. It linked in with our unit of inquiry about marine life, children could see first-hand the effect that litter can have on marine life and the beaches.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Latitude: -36.7892 Longitude: 174.7723

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

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

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A fishing knife. it led to discussions about the possible consequences if someone had stood on it.

“It was great to receive the Sea Cleaners kit, it was more difficult to administer than I had endeavored it would be. Students opted to be part of the activity with their families. Those that volunteered loved the experience. Fewer turned up than had initially indicated due to the bad weather. We loved having the gloves and bags to collect the rubbish. The gloves ended up getting really soggy due to the weather, the kids didn't mind. We managed to collect rubbish along the whole of Takapuna Beach. It was interesting what we found. This led to discussions about where it had come from, we found shoes, a towel, beach toys, a fishing knife, lots of plastic, litter, bottles, and doggie doos.”

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Posted 1 year ago