By Chris Duggan | CEO
In the last 3 months we have delivered 3,200 science kits to schools, which equates to 235,000 experiments completed by 5-12 year old students across New Zealand.
Our shared community library model means the resource kits are used by many different schools, with a kit staying in a classroom for two weeks at a time.
Hundreds of volunteers replenish consumables and distribute the kits to their local schools each fortnight. It truly is a community effort, and one that teachers love. Here is some recent feedback from one of those teachers:
“A great kit. The classes all loved looking at the skeletons and the pictures of Jack that you could put on the window. The junior classes liked putting the x-ray together like a jigsaw on the mat so they could see the whole skeleton. Everyone completed the chicken bone experiment with great predicting, observing and explaining: students were the experts telling their teacher what was going to happen and why.”
Our kit development team have been busy writing a new topic to add to the library: Forest Health. This has received fantastic feedback from the first few schools that used it.
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