What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science/Literacy/Inquiry

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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? School children will continue to take care of creek studied. Inquiry topics will link to these stretches of water from a cultural and science perspective.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Significant understandings were derived about the cultural significance of water through this kit and links to local myths/legends/local histories.

“Dairy NZ Water Testing Kit”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Made links to Literacy and the Week Camp. As mentioned above we had a class debate around possible solutions for New Zealand creating fresh waterways.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We will use this as a link into our next camp in 2021, in a bush area in the Bay of Plenty comparing with what we found this year. A great way to study the river we visit.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We did not look at this aspect

“An exciting hands on scientific investigation which got the students questioning and wondering about our water ways in the future in particular the ones linked to the local dairy farms. The students researched and debated possible solutions followed up by a piece of persuasive writing”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science, Mathematics, English

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? Awareness of our environment - waterways, grounds and classroom. Water is a precious resource. Cost of water - water charges at school. Making our own rain gauges.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Water for life, respecting our water ways, fresh water is treasured and vital for all living life.

“The kit was a great way to engage parent and community links. The students learnt to correctly use the equipment and measure and record data”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths - statistics were used to draw &; interpret graphs. Writing - explanation of testing water health.

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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'll continue to monitor the health of the stream, and will start lobbying our local council to help us clean it up.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Good to relate water health to health of Papatuanuku, etc

“Great kit with lots of good ideas and resources!”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We made links to Literacy and our camp experience. We also used this to create a persuasive written piece about why our waterways are important and need to be cared for. The students then looked at creating an eel reserve and found out more by reading abo

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? Using this kit further in time to keep a longer study of the health of the stream, we will also be using this on our next camp in a different location so that we can compare different rivers. It would also be a great kit to use to explore aspects of pollu

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We did not use this aspect of the kit.

“My students loved getting out to the river and getting involved in taking measurements. They particularly enjoyed getting in the water and taking samples of the bottom as well as measuring along and taking the cross-section measurements of the river. They found drawing the bottom of the river fascinating. This kit was fantastic, the children found the aspects we measured fascinating and loved discussing the health of our local river and what we can do help keep the environment healthy for the creatures that live there.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science, Maths ( loved the olympics)

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? Students researched into their own inquiry around stream health that they were interested in after their visit 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? Not really

“Great resource with the required equipment. Would have liked clearer information about the size of river as I only found out about the width when reading the cards in depth. I chose a stream instead of a river and it was too small for us to gather information about the creatures in there. Thanks for the resource!”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Relationships and self-management, literacy as many were inspired to write to Parliament to initiate change. Maths obviously.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We thought this could be a project that we could take on every two years.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? The pepeha videos etc were great as the students were able to understand the significance of water and identify with how important it is to them personally as well. This enabled them to realise how we must look after our water supplies - great timing with

“This kit was/is fantastic. The students loved creating their own pepehas and proudly display them in their homes. The experiment and process was a lot of fun and very achievable for all of our students. What really stood out to us was how determined they are to make a change to the environment following this kit - we have a whole new bunch of eco-warriors :)”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Literacy and numeracy (statistics)

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? Students wanted to retest our local creek, comparing data between seasons.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? This kit allowed students to draw important comparisons between Måori culture and how we live today

“Wow wow wow! What a wonderful kit. The kit tied in perfectly with our inquiry unit as we focused on the waterways within our area. The students were fully engaged and used the tests independently with ease. It was a great morning experiencing our local creek. The students were able to draw some great conclusions and have kept the test equipment safe as they want to retest the creek in the summer months to note the difference in data.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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