What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We actually found that the waterways near our school were not clean! This inspired some persuasive letter writing to figures of influence in the community.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Caring for the environment is hugely topical at the moment, and I think this kit was a great way for children to get inspired about looking after our planet. I have found that it links well to local geography/a study of our community so this is what we wi

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Children loved exploring their pepeha - the videos were particularly informative to help them learning more about the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Maori.

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths- looking at data science- reasons why and making predictions

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? As mentioned in the first response about using this kit throughout our whole inquiry.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? This Kit made us acknowledge how tapu water is for different types of land.

“this is such a fantastic resource. We used it for pre data for our Wetland area so that when we do the end data we are able to compare the before and after to see the usefulness of our wetland. We will continue using this kit throughout our wetland design to have a range of data for the kids to look at and see where we need to go next.”

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Amazing links to literacy and maths - statistics. Fits in really well to our enviro school inquiry model.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? The children have indicated that they want to learn more about this and to write to the local college that boarders the stream as we found lots of rubbish in there! We will keep going back to be kaitiaki!

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We visited a stream that local iwi are already working on with a group of students so it was great to feed into that too. We were able to make connections to the learning that students were doing at the local puna.

“An awesome kit that really empowered the students to be scientists! We also borrowed a kit from our local Mountains to Sea team and we were able to compare the different equipment which was great. The children loved getting hands on and it has helped to support our maths and literacy program too!”

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Although I was not able to full maximise the cross-curricular learning opportunities with this kit, the links to Te Reo Maori and also maths allowed for some deep learning in my class.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? The links to many different areas of the curriculum are powerful, particularly with Te Ao Maori. I will be using this kit next year with an inquiry topic that it fits better with and allows for more time spent using all this kit has available.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? This kit has a huge amount of resources that have allowed my class to understand the cultural links. I would have liked to have explored this further but due to timings with the school year it didn't quite happen as in depth as I would've liked.

“This was a great hands on experiment for all students to get involved in. The whole class loved getting involved and were able to fully participate and learn about the environment around them.”

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Literacy - reading about polluted streams and waterways Technology - coming up with solutions for the problems we found Maths - measuring length, temperature and time Maths - graphing and collecting data

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Having a technology focus for solving problems that we found in our local waterways. Writing and communicating with our community about what we discovered.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We did the pepeha, but I think once we were past the introductory part of the kit the To Ao Maori part of the kit wasn't as significant. It would be good to tie this in for the whole of the unit.

“Hi there, this kit was fabulous for hooking in my learners in a local science inquiry. The kit also came with everything that I needed to make sure I was able to teach it effectively. We've also linked this kit in with our larger focus for this term - sustainability and water. My only negative was that four weeks to teach the content and take a trip was a bit of a tight turnaround!”

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths reading scales, timers etc was good

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? then looked at joining these ideas I to our sva kit

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? we didn't get to cover this part

“Great idea, but very hard to do as a whole class, especially in covid times unfortunately! We ended up having to send bits home with different students.”

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Students were participating in science fair projects at the same time so this was a way for students to see a whole class model of an experiment. They also wrote poetry about water and maths problems were targeted at what they had been looking at, at the

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Discussions and actions around raising awareness in the community.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? The discussions at the start of this unit allowed students to understand the significance of water for Maori and allowed us to delve deeper into the importance of water in many different cultures around the world.

“My class were engaged in these lessons and some great discussions were had.”

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We linked this into our Reading and Maths Programme which gave a real life authentic experience for the children. We are currently looking at Google Sheets and gathering data to create a chart. We are using some of our data here to graph the results.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? This unit of work is still continuing on with the students as they are highly engaged in this unit. Thank you once again for a relevant and rewarding kit! You guys are ace!

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We linked this back to our Pepeha and Mihi which too identifies the significance of water uin Te Ao Maori.

“This kit was amazing and contributed to so much learning around our local waterways. It was surprising to see how little was known around water control and who was in charge of making sure our waterways are healthy.”

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