How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Food technology

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Measurement and capacity

How successful was this kit in promoting scientific thinking?

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“Excellent resource”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Looking into other ways they can substitute sugar with fruit and veggies in other baking recipes, as well as other types of recipes.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? It really engaged them as they could see the link between the two curriculum areas.

How successful was this kit in promoting scientific thinking?

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Very Successful

“My students really enjoyed all of the different experiments that we did, especially when altering the original cake mix.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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Very High

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Creating a class shared lunch/kai that is focused on healthy eating but still fun and enjoyable.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Their understanding of measurement was quite low and this was the most learning that came out of this kit. The hands on experience in actually having to measure the ingredients was so helpful. Even looking at using a knife to level off the cups, we also u

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“What a success! Such a perfect kit for Term 4! The hands on engagement was just what my classroom needed to help us get through these final weeks. To be able to use many of our mathematical skills and practice new ones in a hands on way was perfect for the tamariki. It also linked to healthy eating which was a focus for us as we notice lots of sugar in the students lunch boxes. With the students working on projects in pairs it taught them to compromise on what they wanted in their cakes/ with what their partner wanted and what was going to work best. The only downside was we have only have one oven in the school which I didn't think about before hand. Next time I would do this in groups so we aren't all waiting for the oven.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? After this successful trial I will be incorporating the learning into my programme for 2022.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? They made predictions and applied their understandings to create an outcome.

How successful was this kit in promoting scientific thinking?

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“This resource added real value to my programme. I used it as an extension for the Year 8'a as a Food Technology challenge. The kit has innovative ideas that allows the students to trial and reflect on their outcomes.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This really helped with co operative learning and social grouping. It was great to be able to have the children in mixed ability groups so the children could support and encourage each other. The future learning was how I could mix up my children for our

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? The children in my class love eating! It showed them that when ever we are baking it has a degree of science and lots of maths!

How successful was this kit in promoting scientific thinking?

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“The kids had so much fun with the measuring and mixing component of this kit. They loved being able to swap out sugar for different sweet ingredients. It fitted in beautifully with our maths topic of fractions and measurement. Our school has just become part of lunches in schools so it was great for the kids to see that healthy food tastes great and doesn't need to contain sugar.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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Very High

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Children have been keen to take learning home and have tried to cook different varieties at home.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Great cross links with Maths and science. Children's focus on solid, liquid and gases went well and they made lots of connection when making the cakes.

How successful was this kit in promoting scientific thinking?

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“Great unit! Children absolutely loved it! Would definitely sign up again. My only suggestion is it was expensive to get all the ingredients so the $10 voucher was no where near enough. We spent at a class well over $50 on what we needed.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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Very High

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Kids were excited to change variables and try this again with different ingredients in the future to see how it changes results.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? It helped enagage students in science/chemistry. It encouraged students to make and record careful scientific observations. It also helped them to understand the concept of fair tests and changing variables.

How successful was this kit in promoting scientific thinking?

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“I'm sorry this feedback was delayed. I am afraid that I didn't actually get to use this myself. We ran out of time in Term 2 due to finishing boards for science fair. I didn't want it to gather dust on my shelf so I passed it onto my colleague to use this term as they were studying chemistry. I have asked her about it so am posting her feedback.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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Very High

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Thinking a lot more about how we teach science as a cross curriculum activity.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Practical application for measurement is always good. Good learning opportunities around the process of chemical change.

How successful was this kit in promoting scientific thinking?

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“I think we rushed a little with the scientific thinking for this kit, we just missed a window due to lockdown to tie it in well with our inquiry learning. We did develop the student's understanding of scientific change and their perceptions around the taste of healthy foods.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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