What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science- English vocab and Reading

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Repeat this at another river to make a comparison. Repeat the exercise to become more familiar with the process of water testing and measurement.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? There was not much of this apparent.

“Thank you for this kit. As it had more of a 'scientific' emphasis, it was handed to our science department to implement. As a homeroom teacher I worked as a support teacher and did the integrated English component. So I was unfamiliar with much of the preparation that had gone on in class before the visit to the river. I personally think it was a little advanced for Y7/8 and it would be more suited to Y9/10.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science, Literacy, maths, EOTC, not to mention school values. This cross curricular learning was brilliant.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Using more of our local resources. The importance of sharing environmental aspects and allowing the students to do hands on activities in our own backyard. Because the learning was in a place they visit and know it was more significant for them. We wil

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? It opened conversations and enabled students to think about cultural significance. With the support of parents and our local community members we were able to share ideas and understandings of the cultural significance of water to many cultures.

“Thanks heaps School Kit for the amazing Water testing Kit we have used at Oxford Area School. We made a day of it and combined a great walk to a local waterfall. Integrating curriculum areas in our school was a highlight. The kit was a fantastic resource and the students thoroughly enjoyed the EOTC experience and activities. They certainly learnt about water quality and healthy waterways in our backyard! Thanks to Dairy NZ for the support.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We had great discussions with maths! Lot of links made with measuring, volume, graphs.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? The students would like to continue ";checking in"; on our local stream, monitoring the levels. And using this information to communicate with parents and also work on with our Enviro group.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? It was great to be supported in developing not only the students understanding, but also our own as teachers and adult helpers.

“This was a great kit to get us out into our local area, looking at water health and starting discussions about what we can do to improve it.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Students really enjoyed creating items, like the bathyscope, to conduct their investigations. They really enjoyed measuring for different purposes and found it interesting what we would do with the data once we had completed our investigations.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Students were much more aware of items like rubbish etc after we cleaned up around the waterway that we were investigating. Many mentioned other waterways that they hadn't really paid attention to previously but after the kit they had gone for a walk with

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We were able to make links to the rivers that each student connects to in their pepeha and have discussions about how we may use water from some of the local rivers. Students made good links to how they can ltake care of waterways near us to keep the wate

“We really enjoyed this kit! It was a little spread out and disjointed with the lockdowns but the kids really got into it. All the hands on measurement and data collecting really appealed to them all.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Art, science, maths

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? More around how to help with water quality

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? The children have a better understanding of the different types of waterways. They are more conscious in and around them.

“Thoroughly enjoyed taking the children out and about with this kit. All relevant equipment and reasonably straightforward.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We looked at the myths and legends of our awa and the waterways around us. We looked at long-finned eels and the migration. We wrote poems and reports about our local river. We also looked at the streams on our own properties and looked at how farming has

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? I would probably use this kit in the summer months rather than the winter months. It would be great to be able to monitor our rivers for longer periods of time and share this information with the council. We also have got other waterways are so polluted i

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? I really like the way that they incorporated the pepeha and Te Ao Maori into the resource we were able to talk about Papatuanuku, our local awa and our taniwha that reside in our waters. Because everyone who comes to our school follows a river to school i

“Kia ora, we love this resource. It was quite difficult to get started because we had to learn so many different things but our students really enjoyed testing the different waterways. This year, we have had a very wet winter and we had to be careful what waterways we visited. Sorry the pictures are not that good. We can't find the folder of the stream photos.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? A lot of maths integration.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? I would definitely use this again as part of my science teaching.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We learned a lot about nga wai o pakiahaukia (our local river) and how to be kaitiaki.

“What an awesome addition to our scientific method learning this year.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Statistics

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Developing a science fair project for several local streams .

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? If we could have done this as a class it would have worked. The girls were focusing on scientific aspects, so didn’t address the Maori perspective

“Because of the 2 lockdowns I was unable to do this with a class. However as part of a science fair project 2 students did an investigation on our north shore beaches and the water quality. They used some of the equipment from the kit and presented a full investigation for our regional science fair competition at which they won an award. The kit was what inspired them to do this topic.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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