How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Using one cup per day, 5 minute showers, Using the chore chooser

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? We have talked about saving water regulalry since. We are close to the ocean so there was some discussion there. We wondered why not all houses have a water tank.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

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What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? Yes we stamped daily but it took a long time to get through everyone's stamping, so then we moved to stamping anytime during the day to spread it all out.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? It has fostered a great deal of awareness, and they spread the word to family members. Parents were really shocked in the range of water the different showers used in the one minute challenge.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“I had to use the watersavers kit for a year 3/4 class that I got put with, after I had ordered the kit. I thought it might prove a little difficult, so we glanced over some of the concepts. However, they loved tracking their water use at home and got quite serious about it. They made some really great digital posters to help spread the word. We had some fantastic insights to water use at home. And found out that a dishwasher uses less water than filling a sink.”

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How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Choose water instead of juice / fizzy, Tap off while brushing teeth, 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? From a survey some students did it looked like more than half of the students were influenced to keep doing these water saving habits.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

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What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? I was disappointed in the response to this because of the absences and the other school curricular that took my students out of the class.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? Yes for most of the students it did foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in our classroom

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“My students enjoyed doing this kit. However I would have liked more participation but becausse of illnesses, absences other curricular activities happening and maybe it was the end of term timing. Some parts of the tasks weren't completed due to these reasons. What they did enjoy were the water conservation. I had a few students complete a class survey to see what water savers were a habit.”

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How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? They realised that they did already have water saving habits, they added to their repertoir.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

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What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? The stamp was stolen early in the piece and we ended up using stickers.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? Yes, they became keen on being part of the solution.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“My Year 7 and 8 class was engaged during this unit of work and has enjoyed recording and seeing their water saving results. They were surprised that their little acts for saving water added to a large volume of water when 28 people worked together. The badges were also a hit! Thank you.”

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How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Using one cup per day, Tap off while brushing teeth, 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? Students created water saving posters, then we moved on to look at countries suffering from water scarcity; students created a 2min news clip about one of the countries

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

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What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? This didn't have the impact it could have as we didn't record daily and many lost their record sheets

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? Yes

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“Was a great starting point for our unit about water scarcity. Students enjoyed recording their water saving efforts.”

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How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Tap off while brushing teeth, 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? The ākonga could actually see how their water use can affect supply.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

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What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? N/A

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? We had a field trip to a water pumping station that supported what the ākonga had learnt from this resource. They got the opportunity to compare water usage throughout the world and realised how fortunate we are to be able to access water which made them appreciate it more and work towards conserving water.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“Water Savers was a great resource for us to use alongside our inquiry about water and the water cycle in term 3. It gave our ākonga ideas on how they could be more conscientious about their water use. This led to them creating an inquiry piece on a topic of their choice relating to water.”

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How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Choose water instead of juice / fizzy, Tap off while brushing teeth

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? Students are more aware of the impact saving water can have.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? I am not sure

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? A sense of responsibility was definitely fostered. We heard students talking about ways to conserve water.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“This unit was perfect for our term theme on sustainability and stewardship of our planet. It also tied in well with our statistics unit.”

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How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Using one cup per day

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? I think this idea was new to some students, but others (who are on rain water at home) found it useful and familiar.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? Students started to realise that water scarcity is an issue and to understand it better.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? I think many students did not really think about water much before engaging with these resources - it was just there. This deepend their understandings.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“This kit was great, but I wish I had used it earlier in the year because it was hard to really give it the time it needed in the midst of a busy busy term 4! This connected really well to other learning that we have done throughout the year about water, local water ways and water systems.”

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How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Using one cup per day, Tap off while brushing teeth

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? They could relate to adults, especially techers using lots of coffee cups each day!

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? they enjoyed the stamps.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? Alot more aware as they had no idea before.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“Fantastic buy-in as the students got lots of badges and coasters to enjoy which hooked them into the topic initially.”

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