What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Health, lots of Science and Mathematics, Social Science (Geography and local history), English

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How effective was this kit in raising your students awareness of the importance of water health?

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Monitoring the stream over time. We looked in to why the stagnant water further down the stream is a natural process.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We have been using the Whare Tapa Wha model to discuss hauora as it relates to our class and individuals, so this kit enabled us to transfer that understanding to apply to the health or hauora of our local waterways.

“We really enjoyed all of the opportunities that this kit provided. It was relevant to the students and our local area and it had plenty of practical activities, with everything included in the kit.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science - water cycle, catchment areas, fresh water life (both plants and animals) Social science - people use and value water in different ways Arts - Drama to role play different scenarios Math - mapping out appropriate planting spaces for different

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? The significance of wetlands and their value to clean waterways. The need to care and look after wetlands and what we can do to change peoples perspectives and ideas around wetland and swamp like areas.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Through doing the stream investigation, it prompted discussions around the use of water and how different cultures value it in different ways. The kit itself didn't lead to understanding the cultural significance of water.

“The kit offered students the motivation towards wanting to know how to use the different tools within it. It- tied in nicely with our studies about fresh water and connecting with our local whenua and awa. Invertebrate identification would be more helpful if there was a picture resource to go with the descriptions.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Social-Studies - looking at how we use resources differently, English - notetaking, research tasks.

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How effective was this kit in raising your students awareness of the importance of water health?

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We will continue to use the water testing kit as part of our local waterways study in the future - fantastic resource! We will extend to looking at how the waterways feed into the ocean, estuary etc.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Students gained an understanding of the importance of wai for various groups and how we all make use of the same resource differently.

“This was probably my favourite kit that my class have worked with. Hands on and totally fitted our topic of local waterways. Students gained a comprehensive understanding of the local ecosystem and were able to identify examples of these on our trip.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Stats: Working out mean, median and mode, percentage. Graphing Science: Investigations, estimating, classification

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How effective was this kit in raising your students awareness of the importance of water health?

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We are going to be working with the Auckland Council helping them to monitor the health of the stream, and they are putting us in touch with someone at NIWA and using their e coli testing kit.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? This will be covered in a follow on activity later in the week.

“Thank you for the opportunity to get the kids out and gathering real, meaningful data. This kit was really worthwhile. We coupled this activity with a service trip where our students were involved with a stream and park clean up at the same time. We took a group of 14 boys down to a river close to our school and boys worked in pairs to get through each aspect of the water testing. This was a great resource to use, because as a community, we had been made aware that the waterways in our local area were not in good shape and there were recent health issues raised at the local council level. We were aware of a major problem with the health of the waterways around our school, and a public advisory note had gone out banning swimming and fishing in the area. After getting permission to follow through with the testing, and strict safety briefing, we took the boys and some parent helpers out. The data the boys gathered, confirmed the poor state of the stream.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? N/A

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“Due to the timing of Covid we were unable to use the kit for the purposes we intended it to be used. We got interrupted with the requirements to the situation of this year. This maybe something we will hold over to next year however we haven’t had final decisions to what the year will look like. It will not let me summit this without the below requirements so I have just ticked the first box of each however this isn’t a true reflection due to the issues we have had.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We linked out literacy into this learning seamlessly as we had been looking into explanation writing so that was an unintentional link. I found the material (links) provided helped create connection between science and Te Ao Māori well especially the whak

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? I was extremely encouraged by how empowered some of my student felt after completing this kit, so much so that they want to write letters to the council and find out more about how they can improve the stream heath around their school. I was also really t

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? It expanded upon the principal of whanaungatanga and connection which explore pepeha and personal links to land and water. This also opened up exploration into what it means to be kaitiakitanga and how the overall wairua of. water directly effects and if

“We throughly enjoyed this kit and found it really stretched out learning. I think this kit was bit 'above my year 4 &; 5 but it gave them a lot to discover in preparation and amazing learning experience at the end of the u'unit'”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The Kit can be linked to many other curriculum areas

How successful was this kit in promoting scientific thinking?

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How effective was this kit in raising your students awareness of the importance of water health?

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? There are streams locally situated and I would like to use this resource next year.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? I think that the Kit will create a better understanding of the significance of water in Te Ao Maori.

“This is great resource. We looked at visiting Puhinui Creek I unfortunately did not get to take my students out to use the kit due to various reasons: Covid and a change in how we taught Science in school. Science specialisation was not in place for terms 3 and 4. So as a Science teacher I had to work on resources that were suitable for the whole school and as our Theme was around Market Day we looked at Food Safety. I do intend on using the resource next year. I do apologise that this has not been done as expected.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We were able to incorporate Social Studies, Health, Science, Mathematics and Art in to this unit.

How successful was this kit in promoting scientific thinking?

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How effective was this kit in raising your students awareness of the importance of water health?

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We will continue to look after our local stream in 2021.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? This kit was highly effective in increasing student and staff understanding of Te Ao Maori, and the importance of water.

“This kit was fantastic. Our students were engaged and enthusiastic, despite weather constantly meaning our trip to our stream had to be postponed. We are looking forward to picking this kit up again next year, to help keep our stream healthy!”

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Posted 4 years ago

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