What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Lots of links to maths, a wide range of science links, english, - oral and writing, interviewing and speaking to others.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? To continue to review the state of the stream, providing longitudinal data and science. To find out what is being done now and in the future for the stream, To learn the history of the stream, critically thinking how it got to how it is, To view best pr

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? This continued to develop our knowledge and encouraged us to make links to find out more.

“This kit provided us with excellent in depth hands on activities and learning which is always the best kind. It was very successful with the students and the activities are such that we can do again and again, it was great that we could explore the stream we relate to as our class name, Mangatarere. Our visit to the stream was successful and is something we intend to revisit and so again as the seasons change, to see the changes in the stream.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Mathematics, Technology, Reading, Writing, Social Sciences.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Hopefully, we can revisit this area in the warmer months as it is an area that is utilised for a lot of our kids. Being so close to our school I hope this could be an area that we can take care of in the future.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Were able to link to our local area and why early Maori settled where they did in our area.

“Great kid although was limited with the amount of flow in the creek at this time of year that we wanted to study. Will be great to be able to use this again at a later date in the similar area.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We are going to carry this learning journey on as we head to camp.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Students really enjoyed learning their pepeha and understanding the meaning behind it.

“Using the dairy NZ kit as a base we developed our STEAM topic for our year 4 classes. We organised a trip to our local river and gained so much local knowledge.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Lots of scaffolded note taking and lots of oral language with a focus on scientific language

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Learners are now investigating and writing to persuade people to plant trees and look after water

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Opportunities to promote local rivers and traditional uses for our waterways

“Followed kit use up with a visit from our local council and looked at the equipment they use.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? science, environment, rubbish, social sciences, living world, nature and maths

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? what can we do to make people aware not to drop rubbish(we walked along a public track to the stream.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? it didn't really

“Hi there. A great range of resources was provided. It was fantastic to have the experiment cards with all the instructions as i laminated them and they were able to record the results on the back. You provided all the equipment which made it super easy to organise as well. One thing you could add is the litmus water testing, for another experiment. Some of the experiments could be a bit easier to work out..... the gravel test was a bit hard. Overall a great kit.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? looking at statistics and interpreting data

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Doing the Testing again to see if the health of the river improves

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Loved the proverb and linking it to our own local landmarks

“Great kit. Lots of awesome resources that we get to keep fo r future testing.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? - Maths and measurement - many children hadn't used a thermometer before - Literacy - Children have been investigating the water cycle and creating diagrams and written explanations

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We discovered that there was quite a lot of rubbish along our most local waterway and the children would like to organise an event to do some rubbish collection - Lead us into thinking about other water sources that were important - the children would li

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? - Looking at water through the lens of a pepeha was great - the children were able to see that bodies of water grounded people - they were landmarks that never shifted. THey were source of survival. We discussed water as a taonga and how important it was

“Great kit - straight forward to put together and the children were really engaged by being able to get out into their local environment. Inspired my group of children to think further afield - and the impact of not looking after our water can affect people in other places. It was great to review our pepeha and the resources provided and the clear links to water as a taonga fitted perfectly with our inquiry learning concept of kaitiakitanga.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We created our own quadrats and was able to observe within our own environment. The students also looked into the design process in Technology. The maths content did not fit into our current focuses for our students.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? If possible I would still like to do the stream trip that I had planned. We pulled in the Enviro Schools programme and were able to use many of their resources also that helped us develop our understanding of water and stream health. The students were exc

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We learnt about Kaitiakitanga seperate to this kit so we were able to tie in our knowledge of this and develop our ideas further.

“This kit has loads of good ideas, almost so much that the tasks seemed unachievable. I think the year 4-8 target group is quite wide. The content tended to lend itself more greatly toward the year 8 students than the Curriculum level 2 and beginner level 3 students. My plan was to adapt the kit to make it work for my year 5 and 6 students. We were going to pick and choose activities that suited our level best. We are currently working through the design process and learning about what this is. We are still planning on creating a device that can see underwater. These tasks take a long time to achieve so the time frame I feel (especially with Covid) has been quite tight. We had planned a stream trip but unfortunately due to Level 2 Covid we have had to cancel this.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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