What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Yet to complete

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Use at camp and look at different water ways

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? To be completed

“Completed some, would love to carry this on next year on camp. To its full extent”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Looking further into science and social sciences

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Extensions and self led student inquiry into their learning

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? How Maaori used water and what its purpose was. How it is used.

“Very good kit. Students were able to clearly see and develop an understanding of what are in certain waterways and why they are different. They were especially keen on developing future strategies in how we can improve the quality of our water. Very good kit.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science, Health

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We are developing an action plan to help clean our waterways to get this back to a quality suitable to get our eels back.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We made links, naturally, to our inquiry and our local stream. So we did have a lot of teacher input for this area. The kit we received didn't have a lot of significance, however looking through the website, there were plenty of resources we could have im

“The water testing kits were amazing and help us with the quality testing of our local stream. The resources supplied were of great quality and the links on the website were outstanding. We were also able to use these with our local 'Working Waters Trust' team who came and ran some sessions with the children.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths as well as science.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Continuing to monitor water quality in our local environment. Some more work around statistics - data gathering, mean, median etc.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? It linked back to earlier work we had done around peheha. Our school has had a focus on Turangawaewae and Kaitiakitangi this year and this linked in perfectly to those concepts.

“This was a fantastic kit! The instructions were easy to follow and the children absolutely loved conducting the stream study. There was so much learning connected with this unit. Loads of maths and science (knowledge as well as skills). Not to mention the co-operation and team work that was required.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths - mean, median, mode, percentages, graphs, temperature, time, measurement etc. Writing - writing a reflection (PMI) about the experience, recording results and observations. Reading - reading the instructions and other pre-learning activities. Sc

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? A good next step would be for us to look at a how we can increase the health of our local stream - maybe contacting the city council, weekly rubbish collection in the stream, signage promoting awareness/education for the public, planting day etc. Or explo

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We made links to Kaitiakitanga throughout the unit.

“My students really enjoyed using the water testing kit and visiting the local stream. There was lots of learning gained from the activities.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths - Calculating averages, mean median, mode.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Children wanted to write about experiences and persuade others to take action against water pollution.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? There were some key voab translated in te reo Māori.

“Children really enjoyed the carrying out investigations at their local waterway. It related well to our focus of kaitiakitanga. Children found the analysis part of the process quite difficult.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We utilised all areas. Maths, Health, Science, Social Science, P.E etc etc. Invaluable in a thematic approach.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? To take action. How can we now do something about what we learnt? That our waterways are not in good health in some parts and this made us very concerned. We really need to be more aware in so many areas ...This led us on into Social Science and looking f

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? A lot because it encouraged us to use a local water way and therefore we needed to search to find our local waterway. To search we needed to know the stream in Maori. We were also able to look up some of the creatures we were looking for in Maori like Kur

“This was a brilliant kit and well worth using. The students benefited from it hugely and it was very user friendly. Easy to use, easy to follow the instructions and all resources were provided which made it easy to be organised and keep students engaged.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? How a thermometer works and how it is made. Using mean mode and range to understand the data collected. Vocabulary related to the activities for example: current

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Microscopic data collection. Measuring current differences at different places in the stream.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? The students got to understand why water and the trees around the stream are 'Tapu"; to Tangata whwnua.Therefore (no reira) students understood the importance of respecting water as the main source of life as well as the responsibility to keep it clean.

“The students were engaged and took part in all the activities. The resources provided played a most critical role in the successful completion of all the activities above. The use of the thermometer to measure the water temperature was most interesting for the students as they used the data collected from the first reading in the morning and compared it with the other readings throughout the day. All the groups found it interesting to see how these readings differ and also how the readings corresponding with water taken from deeper down. The current was measured using a stopwatch and there was a noticeable in difference in the strength of the current throughout the day. Because of the depth of the water I could not use the shorter sticks provided but we were able to use some sticks from nearby. I found the equipment provided very accurate and effective.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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