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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This kit has inspired more learning into healthy food options for the school cafeteria. It can also lead into looking at special diets such as gluten free, nut free, vegetarian and creating food that caters for a range of people, cultures etc. This could

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? The students love the practical side of learning so the context of cake and the experiments we did leading up to the baking were enjoyed by all. Teaching the Maths with a real life context made it enjoyable and motivated students.

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“I really enjoyed guiding the students through this learning process and challenging their ideas around using vegetables to make a cake. Most of the students were pleasantly surprised that the cake could still taste like cake when using healthier ingredients. There were some failures as well as successes. Students were motivated to keep trying different recipe substitutes to find a recipe that was perfect. The lessons promoted a growth mindset and an opportunity for future inquiry. The students have asked to continue this next term so that shows they are enjoying the experimenting and testing process. Initially students thought that the only vegetable you could use in cake was carrot. Now they have more of an open mind and I believe they will try some of these ideas at home in the future.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More science!! Our term 4 will be filled with science after completing this kit. Thank you!

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? My students are highly motivated by science so it was easy to engage them with this. In regards to maths they certainly enjoyed the real world aspect rather than having to do worksheets.

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“This was an excellent kit that my class were very excited by. They loved the hands on aspects of the unit and they are always highly engaged by science - so this as perfect!”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Lots of recipe discussion, kit was amazing!

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Fantastic for measurement!

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“I used this kit as part of our food tech programme. The students loved it!”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It has definitely encouraged more interaction with our measurement tools in the classroom, especially during their time and not instructional time. We are part of the healthy lunch in schools programme and for some, they are being introduced to new foods.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? What a great opportunity to takes risks, have fun and make predictions about what we think may happen. The tamariki enjoyed this right from the start. I mean who doesn't like watching things explode!! Baking is a great tool to use in the class especially

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“Thank you for this awesome opportunity.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Using our vegetables from our school vegetable garden rather than tinned vegetables.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Maths - understanding the unit of measurement - grams. Using the scales and taking in account the weight of the measuring cup when weighing 60 grams of an ingredient. Science - looking at the reaction of the raw ingredients and the baked muffin. Taste te

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“The tamariki unpacked the kit just before lockdown in Week 3 of Term 3. Then when they returned in weeks 8 & 9 they discussed their recipes and baked their muffins.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This kit has opened up thinking for a lot of my learners about how science is real and has an impact on their lives everyday. They are super interested to keep finding these connections and to do more cooking :)

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? High engagement and interest. Really helped the learners see the connection with science and their everyday lives. We were able to apply our learning in maths through measurement, estimating, times and doubling and halving.

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“This kit was an awesome introduction for many of the learners to some science concepts. I was particularly impressed with how easily this kit enabled connections to be made with science concepts and the real world. The learners loved it and grew to be very particular and precise with their recipe writing and measuring.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Making a whole school inquiry around healthy food and seeing what each class can remake using vegetables and fruit.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Writing an experiment and adjusting measurements.

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“The class enjoyed this and the chance to experiment.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Further experimenting with the recipe to incorporate other healthy ingredients.

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

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“This kit gave us an opportunity to explore science, maths and team building. Our science thinking was expanded by the chemical reaction part of the kit and then again when we baked. Understanding measurement, division and multiplication further developed our mathematical thinking. Our ability to work together as a team was tested multiple times throughout the kit from turn taking, forming shared opinions and our learning to compromise was demonstrated. Great kit and great fun.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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