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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I think it has inspired further investigation into ingredient function as well as looking at the nutritional components of ingredients. Also when I create future units I will look at how I can continue to integrate both science and maths.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? The students were pretty amazed at the 'science of baking'. Understanding how a chemical process works as well as the certain function of each ingredients. Measurements, careful use of the scales and proportions within the cake formula meant that maths wa

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“I taught this kit to my Year 8 Food Technology students in Term 3. They were engaged and enthusiastic. A lot of learning had to take place after we had baked our trial cakes and I maybe underestimated the time we would need.”

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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? More creative cooking

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? Good with measurement, hopefully next term we can use it to talk about ratios, too.

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“I haven't been able to complete this kit yet due to covid restrictions at my school. However, before the lockdown we made the basic cupcake recipe in groups with lots of success. I will hopefully finish the kit next term.”

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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? We have used this kit to hook in and get the students started on designing a healthy lunchbox snack. We will look into sweet and savory options, as well as budgeting and making cost effective and healthy treats. It was also a great way to get the ākonga

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Measuring, looking at the effects of heat and time. It allowed the students to become experimental without the fear of failure!

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“A great hands on kit for my year 6&7 Design Technology class. Fantastic resources that really got the ākonga thinking not only creatively but like food scientists. Easy to follow instructions and very nicely designed hand outs. This kit gave the students permission to experiment and play, taking into account sensory elements of making food products. The end result? A few interesting combinations and surprisingly some tasty combinations. Would get this kit again for sure.”

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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? Some of my students were inspired to try out their own recipes during lockdown.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? We had learnt about chemical change previously in the year so my students were able to bring a lot of prior knowledge to the lessons. We had a lot of great discussions.

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“A fantastic kit that facilitated a lot of questions and scientific discussion.”

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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? The students had lots of ideas for further investigations such as - more subtle changes in the ratios of ingredients, using different veggies, fruit and veggie interactions in cakes and cooking, different cooking methods and comparing canned, frozen and f

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 measurement and recording aspects of the kit were very important - as the students found out, in order to come out with the best results. We also used the kit to determine the effects of various chemical reactions along with reversible and non-reversi

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“A great kit and it was very exciting, as a Food Technology teacher to be able to be involved with a School Kit project. The veggies21 kit tied in so well with both the Technology aspects of the curriculum, as well as the Food and Nutrition curriculum big ideas. The students loved the experimentation involved and were truly surprised at how well some of their finished products turned out.”

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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? Home learning to be followed by in class learning - can’t wait!

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Kids love baking! I mainly teach maths (y3/4) so while I needed to adapt the science a little, the maths measuring and ratio aspect was bang on.

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“This kit was so well set up and easy to administer. Unfortunately we moved to Distance Learning towards the end of the term when I had planned to use the kit, so I assigned it as an option for our online learning programme. It was very easy to simplify the process to parents, with the added bonus of the whole family considering how to make the along more healthy! We still have the physical kit at school, ready to try again in Term 4.”

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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? We have planted a class vegetable garden and are looking forward to trying our own cages out in some baking in another month or so

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? Kids didn’t realise it was maths until we followed up with some measurement work in our maths books

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“We had a lot of discussion on recipes and what we thought we liked to find that sometimes things we didn’t think we liked we actually did”

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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? We already do cooking every week, this kit was so great to talk about the different substitutes that can be used. They got real excited when we began the topic. Just a shame we couldn’t follow it on and continue. But next term we aim to!

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? We didn’t get to this

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“Due to lockdown we only just started the unit.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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