How has this kit help develop the resilience of your learners? Our students tried things that they were unsure of. No one opted out. Everyone had the opportunity to share their opinion, wait for their turn and encourage their peers.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Students realised science is fun, the need to test more than once for validity, and that science and health are connected. Students now want more challenges and are researching other experiments to share with the class.

How did this kit promote student engagement and enjoyment around taste literacy/fair testing/reducing waste? Students were all engaged and enjoyed the sessions. The conversations were focused and their understanding grew throughout the term tasks.

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How has the taste literacy of your students developed throughout this kit? The learning experiences provided rich language for literacy tasks.

“The kit had plenty for the students to trial and make judgements on. The lessons were really clear.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How has this kit help develop the resilience of your learners? Yes, for some students- not all. I also had numerous away during these teaching sessions due to illness and sports camp.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Extension of description around taste and smell. In term 4, writing to describe is a key area of learning. So will use ideas to build on vocabulary and experiences, especially for those who have missed a few sessions.

How did this kit promote student engagement and enjoyment around taste literacy/fair testing/reducing waste? Taste and smell literacy was very useful as well as having a focus on fair testing to a specific level. We have informally discussed the lunches as part of this prior to lockdown which unfortunately disrupted the flow of learning.

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How has the taste literacy of your students developed throughout this kit? This provided new vocabulary for many of our students, learning how to describe different smells and textures. (smell and taste testing). The kit was a useful addition to our term unit. Students were still discussing it after lockdown so it had a positive

“This was an excellent kit that we used for our term 3 learning.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How has this kit help develop the resilience of your learners? They will try new foods now

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Exploring further foods and how our tastebuds work

How did this kit promote student engagement and enjoyment around taste literacy/fair testing/reducing waste? Students were more interested in new foods

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How has the taste literacy of your students developed throughout this kit? Developed vocabulary and the ability to tune into their senses

“The Students really enjoyed this”

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Posted 3 years ago

How has this kit help develop the resilience of your learners? Has helped in this domain.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Connections to science.

How did this kit promote student engagement and enjoyment around taste literacy/fair testing/reducing waste? Enjoyed by students

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How has the taste literacy of your students developed throughout this kit? Students showed greater understanding.

“Useful and handy resource”

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Posted 3 years ago

How has this kit help develop the resilience of your learners? See above

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? See above

How did this kit promote student engagement and enjoyment around taste literacy/fair testing/reducing waste? Unfortunately we have not managed to complete the unit, but still have hopes of doing so before the end of the year.

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How has the taste literacy of your students developed throughout this kit? It has helped raised the students' awareness that there are a lot more vocabulary choices that can be used to paint a clearer picture of what one is thinking. It was a really fun exercise to help do this.

“The kids loved the smell cards.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How has this kit help develop the resilience of your learners? I think my students are more resilient to try new things and if they don't like them, they realise that it is not the end of the world.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We are going on camp this term and the lessons we have taken from the Taste Experiment kit; i.e. to try new things and to be tolerant of others who have different tastes. We will take these lessons with us when we go to camp. Thank you Schoolkit.

How did this kit promote student engagement and enjoyment around taste literacy/fair testing/reducing waste? We realised that we produce a lot of waste in our class because we like individually wrapped snacks. I have tried to be more of a role model by using beeswax wraps for my own snacks. We have also recycled the plastic containers from our lunches and have r

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How has the taste literacy of your students developed throughout this kit? Most of my students are more open to giving new flavours a try instead of just refusing them outright. They have also become more tolerant of their classmates' having different opinions than them about the school lunches.

“The kit was full of interesting ideas. My students enjoyed the sniff cards and there was furious debate about which scent was the best. Although almost all of my class disliked the 'pungent' card, one student loved it and would not be swayed by his classmates to change his mind. Another test which was a hit was the Stroop test. My class ended up having competitions in their own time to see who could read the colours the fastest.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How has this kit help develop the resilience of your learners? They are more willing to give things a go and say why they do not want to.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We are going at look into kitchen science and the way that foods can have processes too.

How did this kit promote student engagement and enjoyment around taste literacy/fair testing/reducing waste? They were able to name different tastes. And enjoy different tests.

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How has the taste literacy of your students developed throughout this kit? Yes

“The kids enjoyed smelling and feeling the sensations. It was very hands on and kinesthetic.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How has this kit help develop the resilience of your learners? Yes it has developed some resilience with the children having a go with new foods, and also problem solving if they like bits and pieces.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Using food colouring to see if it changes the taste in foods. Children were able to make predictions.

How did this kit promote student engagement and enjoyment around taste literacy/fair testing/reducing waste? The children were excited when we introduced new smells to them and the expressions on their faces were priceless. Children were more open to give new foods a go with prompting.

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How has the taste literacy of your students developed throughout this kit? Yes it has, opened up children’s mind and having a nibble to taste not by looking at what they see.

“The children really love the smell kit. There was a lot of teaching about the smells. Over time I moved the children away from smells that they could think of and specifically directed where they could have smelt it before e.g. the kitchen, fridge. The resources were great as it allowed us teacher the freedom to use them to best fit our learners. Sorry no photos were taken as displayed was removed before I got back from sick leave.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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