What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science, Social Science, Te Reo, Reading, Writing, Hauora, Pangarau

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Include Maori literature or links

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Everybody can whakapapa back to their awa, and the importance of their awa to themselves and their whanau.

“Thank you for an awesome resource to help teachings around the kaupapa Waiti, Matariki and Ako. The Kit helped raise awareness of water health locally and globally.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? To carry out the testing and analyse the results we used maths (a lot of data analysis), science and literacy. Since using the kit, we are focussing on creating inventions (the technology curriculum) which is involving making models as well as building we

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We have plans to learn more about waste water, and the New Plymouth District Council is coming in to work with our students.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We linked awa to students' pepeha (which we had done earlier in the year). We also linked our awa to the school pepeha. We did research into how awa were integral to Māori life pre-colonisation.

“We were very pleased with the Water Testing Kit. It got us out into our river (literally), and gave students a chance to do 'real-life' science. The resources provided were fantastic.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The opportunity to turn the science into maths by working out percentages and averages etc. Using different materials and technology to complete the tests are great.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Revisit the stream and see what has changed, why has it changed and how can we help out. Further Inquiry thinking and learning.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? The kit allowed us to see how the water way provided so many different purposes for people, food, water etc.

“We really enjoyed the opportunity to use the school kit in our local environment. We had completed stream studies at a stream closer to school before but this kit allowed us to explore further. It worked really well and was engaging for 40 students to participate at one time. We enjoyed at the test you could complete. Thank you!”

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Posted 4 years ago

“This kit is fantastic! We have loved exploring what the kit contains and the excellent resources. Each year we run a Science Fair where the pupils entries are entered in the Southland wide Science Fair. This resource is going to be so helpful for those pupils wanting to investigate our local waterways. This resource is a valuable addition to our Science resources and will be used in years to come also. Many thanks once again, School Kit!”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Students used technology, following the design brief process for their bathyscope one. We used the methods and tests as reading prompts and it really contributed to vocabulary building. Our focus has been on writing explanations and this kit really suppor

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? The ongoing testing and monitoring our our local waterways will be something that is definitely continued. Students wanted to know whether there was a difference based on the seasons Being able to collect a relevant bank of data means that students in yea

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? The kit helped to support the idea that water health is significant and important in the life and health of all that surrounds it. We have worked with the Mauri Compass previously and it was interesting to see how students use the data that they collected

“This kit was so well put together and so well resourced. It was fantastic to have our students explore the kit as intended and then see them use items from the kit to formulate their own investigations. In the time between getting the kit and now, students have used it almost daily as support for other learning and as it prompted further inquiry. The set up of the support really helped me to scaffold the students learning, the measurement olympics was a great hit and something that we have returned to, taken ideas from and adapted to support further learning in measurement in our class. Last year we tested our rivers and collected data using the enviroshools rivers and us kit, we had a body of data to compare our new results with and the methods varied slightly providing lots of opportunity for critical discussion which I think that the kids really benefited from. This kit helped us to provide some foundational skills which we have drawn on in other learning areas.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths- measurement. using metres, centimetres, millimetres. Collecting and interpreting data. Working out means and averages. Literacy- reading classification keys and instructions. Critical thinking evaluating results. Working systematically through

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? Monitoring stream health at different times of the year and in a variety of weathers. Investigating how periscopes work and making our own. Taking samples upstream and downstream of our site.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? Students could articulate the importance of water as essential for all living things. Relating the health of Papatuanuku is needed for us and living things to be well. Clean water is essential for our wellbeing Hauora

“The kit was comprehensive. Included everything we needed to study our local stream. Often local waterways can be overlooked. Now the students are talking about what makes a healthy waterway. The only aspects I would change is providing a longer periscope to assess water clarity more easily and that providing larger images of the different types of periphyton. Overall the kit was able to be picked up and used. The students were able to make observations, compare their findings and think of further ideas to study. They are keen to repeat the experiments each term to look for trends or differences.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The kit encouraged the students to explore and integrate a wide area of the curriculum. This helped them to deepen their understanding of the true nature of the unit as not just a water testing program but to see our water ways as an integral part of our

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We would like to take the knowledge and skills gained in the kit to look at cleaning up the stream running through the school farm.

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? The students are more aware that our water ways are part of our community. That water ways are and have always been the life blood of our culture, heritage and well being. We were able to make connections to the Whanganui river, where the river has legal

“Really cool unit that the students enjoyed working on. Good interactive investigations that linked to the school community which opened their eyes to the condition of the stream running through the school farm.”

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Posted 4 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We are also doing work with Soil Health and Tree Planting this term, so in terms of environmental sustainability, there are numerous awesome links.

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What opportunities have arisen for future learning from this kit? We are yet to get in the river/creek due to the first half of the term being extremely cold down here, but we have a very keen parent who is both a farmer and a member of the local river catchment group, and have ongoing discussions with DairyNZ about the

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In what ways did this kit develop understanding of the cultural significance of water in Te Ao Māori? We are studying Water as our Term Three inquiry topic and this activity will be the amazing part (and Tikanga) to show the importance of healthy waterways. We linked this topic to Matariki from the first week of the term.

“This kit looks good but it is an immense amount of work to complete, and will require fine weather (which obviously hasn't happened yet in an Otago Winter) I have contacted DairyNZ and am waiting to hear back from their educator, regarding potential assistance in this. We will use this in Spring. It has some great resources in the kit. But until it is warmer our RAMs don't allow us to have children standing in streams/creeks during Winter, much as we would love to”

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Posted 4 years ago

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