You can contact LEARNZ, part of CORE Education, at:
Postal Address:
PO Box 13 678,
Christchurch 8141,
New Zealand
Testimonials
Marine Mammals
Fitted in well with Sea Week and had good information that suited our context for Year 9. Also provided our students of various ethnicity a good opportunity to learn associated Māori vocabulary.
Wyn Morris from Mission Heights Junior College
This topic of this virtual field trip study supports our values of kaitiakitanga. Very appropriate, being a school of students who are sea people, and an interesting form of learning for isolated schools like ours.
Cheryl Waititi from Te Waha O Rerekohu Area School
It engaged the children in a different way; more authentic learning. Got students thinking about their role in our future world and how they could participate and contribute.
Rachel Ammundsen from Moturoa School
Great to connect with others in a real world context.
Katrina Curtis from Clearview Primary
The children were particularly engaged with the videos, which were easily accessible and generated a lot of group discussion. The videos were a great addition to other images, written texts and resources that we used.
Nicola Johnson from Henderson Valley School
I like the LEARNZ Inquiry approach, how the students read (or listen to) all the background information first and then formulate their own questions.
Diane Henderson from Ohaeawai School
Met our objectives for inquiry in the social sciences and science but also gave lots of opportunities for literacy. This experience also allowed the students to feel connected, to learn new things and to take responsibility for their own learning.
Denise Barrington from Kerikeri Primary School
The field trip was a great way to hook the class into our Te Moana inquiry and the children loved it! LEARNZ is a super learning tool that links well in obvious and explicit ways to many aspects of the NZ Curriculum.
Zoe Smith from Moturoa School
Game 3, "Where have all the dolphins gone?", was so successful that we've played it with a younger class and with the new entrants, and also with the pre-school over the road! The children got a really thorough understanding of this topic through the Virtual Field trip, which tied in perfectly with our whole school topic of "The Ocean".
Amanda Barrett from St Patrick's School (Bryndwr)
I use this extensively in my reading programme - high interest content. The children love the interactives which also shows me how carefully the children have read the text.
Louise Parker from Twyford School
The children enjoyed the focus on marine mammals and the field trip was a very effective, engaging way of learning. Supported the overall vision of the NZC to become confident, connected life-long learners along with Values around Community Engagement and Future Focus. Supported the Learning Areas of Social Science, Science.
Jillian Evans from St Margaret's College
I love the links to Te Reo and the culture of the Maori people, particularly things like kaitiaki and karakias. Thank you.
Louise Parker from Twyford School
Integrated perfectly with our current Year 6 Living World topic about life cycles and threats to NZ marine species. Resources are fantastic! Excellent for sustainability and future focus learning.
Dorothy Hutton from Columba College
Making the resources very NZ based and knowing other students were also doing it around the country was motivating for many. Having the correct pronunciation of words (Māori and English) available was valuable for the teacher, as was allowing the lower readers to listen to the text.
Victoria Stevens from Queenstown School
Fitted nicely into science. Authentic contexts. High level of engagement. Loved the Maori song and actions.
Lyndal Fonokalafi from Pukekohe East School
It tied in perfectly with our focus on Toiora te Moana. Supports strongly our values at Merrin - Kaitiakitanga - guardianship especially.
Francis Ganderton from Merrin School
The field trip had a place in all areas of the NZ curriculum e.g covered reading, writing, geography, mathematics, art. Students were able to make connections to their own personal experiences.
Adrienne Maxwell from Waitara East School
Every time I used the support area I was able to find what I needed. The virtual field trip was very appropriate - I had to differentiate content for my littlies but it was very usable.
Jennifer Sinclair from Kaiapoi Borough School
It encouraged students to use a range of communication skills and certainly helped us to target the Living World science curriculum.
Anita Phillips from Alfredton School
I felt the field trip was well done and very engaging. It supported the key competencies very well and there was a lot of thinking, cooperative learning and activities that required a lot of self-management and participation by the students.
Karla Jorgensen from Coastal Taranaki School
It was great to have a topic that linked into Sea Week. It clearly linked to the curriculum for social science, science, literacy, and Te Reo Māori. As a digital classroom, it was fantastic to be able to do our work through the website and access it from home so that learning could be shared with whanau.
Te Ireland from Karoro School
It has given my predominantly Pasifika students an invaluable and accessible EOTC experience that would normally be beyond our ability to provide in real time. Oral recordings made it very accessible and having ambassador on board increased engagement further.
Katherine Smith from Nga Iwi School
It was related to a topic the students could branch out into/feel passionate about and the resources were suited and adaptable to our year 7 class. Engaging with an expert models the quest for knowledge and students take it more seriously/engage more when they know the expert has dedicated their life to their chosen field.
Dale Hitchcock from Pukekohe Intermediate
It was really well set up with appropriate material for classroom writing and got all of my students excited about marine mammals.
Nik Serhijenko from Pamapuria School
Whats the Plan Stan?
Children engaged with this resource and were excited to learn about disasters in this way. Background pages were a great support to the children's learning as they were easy to use as an independent or group or whole class activity, especially with two reading levels and with the read-aloud option.
Karen Buchanan from Whakamarama School