What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths - measuring temperature and distances, graphing findings Writing - write about their experiences and the health of the waterway Social Science - thinking about how to inform others and start changes

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? The next step is to start a clean up and planting programme for some of our local waterways.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Clean and natural waterways improve the natural habitats of many species living in and around the areas. Some of them are important sources of food and well -being.

“Great kit with lots of useful bit for testing water. Activities are well documented with many to choose from.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The children were able to learn various maths skills whilst recording their data. We were able to use science to measure various parts with the water testing. Giving hands on opportunities

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Absolutely. We have already planned this in to use as part of our school camp for next year.

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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 learnt about respecting our local waterways and that for these to be here in the future what they need to do

“This was an excellent resource that we are able to use as part of our camp day. The children really enjoyed being able to take the temperature after making predictions. We were able to run this alongside our local ECAN officer as the kids were looking at different insects that live in the water.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Art - our place. STEAM- we used this as a motivation for developing prototypes for water filters.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We are developing an outdoor classroom in our Stream restoration place. I can see we can also add in our citizen science project for sustainable coastlines.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We used this kit as a basis for an art work based on our Turangawaewae and for sharing our mihi.

“We really enjoyed this kit and were able to work in our local school area. We have a patch of land that a stream runs through over the fence from school that we recently discovered belonged to the Ministry of Education. It had been used as a dumping ground for many years by locals. We have had a huge project cleaning it up, planting and restoring the stream over the last 5 years. We have really loved this project and checking the water was healthy and supporting life was such a thrill for us after many years of hard work! Thanks so much - we have enjoyed sharing this learning with the rest of the school and our community! Photos to come...”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Te Reo Māori, science, maths, social sciences.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? It has allowed us to explore larger waterways and our impact on them. During our School Camp, we were able to explore how wildlife moved from area to area and what helps to keep these areas healthy.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? It made the scientific hypotheses come to life and allowed students to recognise how the local streams are linked to our local Iwi.

“The kit allowed students to examine the health of our local stream and gain an understanding of their impact our waterways.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We did lots of writing and art that stemmed from the kit.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We talked a lot about how we can give back to our community by looking after our local river and lake. We also planned out some landscaping at school and looked at how we can incorporate water.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? The children had quite a bit of prior knowledge about this already but it certainly provided a refresher. It was also helpful for those children that had less knowledge.

“This was a highly interesting kit and it linked well to our inquiry unit we were doing. We co-ordinated with our EnviroSchools leader as well so it was great to have the support of both EnviroSchools and the kit.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? There wasn't a lot of this as unfortunately the kit wasn't a focus.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We really do need to investigate our local waterways better and their ecosystems. It would've been good to work with other organisations, which was our intentions however due to Covid levels changing this wasn't able to happen.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? I didn't find this obviously in the kit but did try to include it.

“I found this kit difficult to follow as there wasn't a lot of information on how to use the testing equipment. With the students I have more detail would've been good. I found this to be a bit of an add on so it didn't get covered very well.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We used the STEAM approach to this kit.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Awareness of our local environment and how sheltered our students are eg. they don't walk anywhere.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? It helped consolidate our understanding that local assets like streams need to be a/ identified and b/ cared for.

“Despite the interruptions with Covid and the weather - we got out and identified a local stream and went for it! Great engaging learning and much needed in classroom and EOTC science learning.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science, Maths, Reading, Writing

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? They were amazed with little kit being the first time for everyone.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? How easy it is to take time and care about our local water ways.

“Water Kit”

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Posted 4 years ago

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