What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths, Science, Te Reo Maori, English

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? To continue our investigation on bthe stream and compare it to the other stream on the other side of school.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Yes and we also learnt about the story of tutaeporoporo who spent some time living in our stream.

“I really enjoyed this unit. It was great to incoporate science and maths into our local environment. The students loved it and we learnt so much about the stream that runs just behind our school.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? As a teacher I have been able to bring in many areas of the curriculum. Reading School Journals about our Pepeha and river pollution and how to monitor rivers. Writing, the children have written letters home explaining what we are doing and why. They hav

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? I hope to extend the learning we have done with the streams to other environmental areas, the ocean, forests etc looking at the environmental affects of pollution in general and how we can help.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? It allowed the to children to recognise the importance of looking after our waterways not just for cultural reasons but for the needs of everyone, either for food, recreation or biodiversity. Many of them did not know how significant water was culturally.

“A great kit that offers some many different learning opportunities for the children. Although we are yet to do our actually testing yet due to Covid, the children are really excited about all the different things we have been able to do so far”

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Posted 4 years ago

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

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Children have linked this unit in with a final unit task entitled 'water is precious' where they all created a booklet/leaflet explaining one aspect of why water is precious - these areas spanned from water cleanliness in Africa to climate change to anima

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? It deepened the knowledge that we had been learning already. our unit sharing the planet fit in so well with the water testing as we were able to link how the Maori used and looked after water in comparison to how people use and look after it now.

“The water testing kit was a great success, children loved the range of testing equipment and the results. We completed our testing in Lake Pupuke so couldn't use the water speed test but we had fun using the others. Looking forward to using it again next year with a new group of children.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Our literacy this term has been environmental science to connect with this kit. So many links with science and maths.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We look forward to going on the river trip and repeating the trip and unit with future classes.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Great to link the kit to the importance of water in our identity as kiwis.

“We haven't had time to go on our river trip yet but have it all planned for Week 7 this term. Our students enjoyed the activities leading up especially the science and looking at the invertebrates. We have based all our literacy around this topic this term. I will add photos to the facebook page when we go on our trip.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? There were a number of good School Journal Stories that we read as a class.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We plan to revisit and conduct more testing. Also in the 4th term we are planning to walk along a local DOC walking track to see how the rive changes as we go further back in to the hills.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? There were elements of cultural significance that came up in discussions. This has added to the understandings that our students have taken away with them. Having Parent involvement was a good way for students to hear local stories.

“This kit was good for getting students interested in the water flowing from the hills down through Thames and into the Firth of Thames. It generated lots of discussion”

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We were able to link science, social sciences, maths and english.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Looking at how we can have a positive effect on our environment, in particular our gorgeous awa.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? It made them so much more aware of their surroundings and where and what our water passes through before we get to it.

“What an awesome kit! yet again School kit you have provided the planning and resources for our tamariki to really engage in their learning. A group of our students loved investigating a favourite swimming spot of ours - so interesting to see how good the water quality really was.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Linked into our Science Fair and our Inquiry topic - IMPACT

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Many kids keen to test near their homes etc....

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? It helped build knowledge and understanding -differing perspectives and embracing cultures.

“The children got to choose an IMPACt topic for inquiry and some students chose water! Perfect...so off they go and find a waterway near school and tested the water. This fitted in perfectly as we had also just completed fair testing so children could make sure this was also covered. The importance of our waterways is a passionate topic in our town of Wanaka so many children had a lot of prior knowledge and interest. The technical science language was a hit - Periphyton etc...”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Literacy, mathematics and art. Students were able to statistically group the data they collected over a few sessions and turn this information into an infographic.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? How we as a school can contribute in a positive way to becoming better kaitiakis within our school and within our communities when it comes to better water for all.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We explored how we as a school could become better Kaitiaki's of the amount of water we waste, and also to contribute in a positive way towards the water shortage in Auckland.

“The kit did raise students awareness and questions about the importance of water health. It was able to address some misconceptions with some individuals who originally thought that NZ water was one of the cleanest and purest water to drink (clean green image). However, the kit enable children to ask more questions about what they could do to help keep our water cleaner for longer.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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