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, Choose water instead of juice / fizzy, 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 children became very conscious of their water usage at home and school.

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 loved stamping their water usage.

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 inside the classroom and at home.

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

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“The water savers 24 was a great program that the children engaged with immediately. Having to monitor their water use at home and then record it together on graphs was very effective. The children were very conscious at home and at school of the water usage and looked forward to recording this.”

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Posted 6 days ago

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? It is difficult to answer this question with any integrity as it is impossible to gauge or estimate the longevity of the actions which occur at home and for which their is varied engagement by whanau.

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? The impact of the stamping was to raise awareness due to the regular activity. We were surprised at how much water is used to produce the products we use and the many ways we had never considered that it would be used.

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 hope so, but again this is a very difficult question to answer with integrity.

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

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“The most effective parts of this kit were the posters for collecting data. I continue to find the SkoolKit website confusing and often find myself reading the same thing worded differently in multiple places. It seems overly complex when a far simplier and clearer structure would do. The external websites that were referred to within the teaching plan are written for adults. I wonder if Skool kit would have been better to create their own web-based content that drew on the data of these websites but was tailored more closed to Aotearoa NZ and ākonga at varying levels.”

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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? 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? We studied the water catchment in our local rural area and this kit was used alongside our inquiry about how vital water is for our community- especially in the current drought.

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? This part was quite challenging as we had a lot of other events on at and out of school, so we lost consistency

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, definitely.

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

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“We were able to link this in with our planned inquiry about Wai (why) Water- the Resources were engaging and the students liked the qr codes for songs. Thank you for the resources/plan full of ideas to support engagement with our whānau and ākonga around the very precious resource of water.”

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Posted 6 days ago

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? Tap off while brushing teeth, 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? Created more awareness of how to save water and what influence we can have at an individual level.

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? Chores was an interesting one, we found not all of our kids help at home. Great to have visuals.

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, it helped our tamariki understand what they can do to help.

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

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“Our syndicate had an awesome time investigating the water savers kit and tracking our progress together. It was easy to take on and was helpful having visuals in our classroom. A great way to look after this very precious resource.”

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Posted 6 days ago

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? 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? Peer pressure of students on families - trying to change habits : )

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? A great visual and collaborative activity

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? Verbalising what they can do at home to support water saving

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

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“A great experience connecting home to school”

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Posted 6 days ago

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? Choose water instead of juice / fizzy

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? Water quality was a big topic of conversation while working through this kit.

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? We have had a super busy term so this sort of fell away as we got busy.

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? The students are certainly more aware and will occasionally make comments about not wasting water.

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

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“We had a great time exploring our water use as a Year 4-6 class. The students in Marton have a good appreciation of the need to conserve water and how it feels to have water that is not always up to standard. This kit helped the kids to focus on little habits they could teach others and they loved earning their water badges after completing their water savings tracker for homework. We extended the study to look at the volume of water used around the school and found that not all flushes or taps use the same volume. This kit also linked well to our nutrition unit and the students were a lot more enthusiastic about water after discussing how bad many fizzy drinks are for you. It was scary to find out how many fizzy drinks these students were drinking, but Marton water is disgusting to drink or smell so I do understand why.”

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Posted 6 days ago

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? 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? Made them more aware of their actions

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? Children enjoyed it

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 - more aware of how precious it is and the decisions they make

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

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“Great activities and good involvement from families”

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Posted 6 days ago

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, 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 students were able to see the saving through the wall displays.

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? The students enjoyed seeing the shower impacts. We also started to discuss the use of waste water.

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? Absolutely

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

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“This was a great unit to do as a syndicate. The whole Year 7 and 8 cohort completed this together. We focussed on communicating arguments from a social science perspective. The students learnt how to use social science conventions to communicate and advocate for saving water. We continued our studies to a global view and our students became Worldwide Water experts. They then created a fun news report about their chosen country(guided). This unit was able to integrate writing, reading, oral language and visual language skills.”

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Posted 6 days ago

Water Savers 24 Reviews