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Minecraft in Education

Added: 30 May 2016 Contributor: Scoilnet Resource type: Guide/notes / Reference

Going beyond the confinement of a textbook by bringing MINECRAFT into your classroom. Your students will learn many social skills with the freedom to think outside the box; the only limit there is with Minecraft is what you can think of doing.
Using blocks, students are empowered to create their own imaginary dream world. As a teacher, you will be amazed in seeing the world created through a child’s eye. The student’s eyes will light up when they know you have seen the spirit of their creativity. Students automatically take ownership for their work becoming overly involved and eager to explain the concepts behind their world.
Minecraft can link to many subjects, it is up to you how you want to creatively incorporate it. Everyone starts with a blank slate but are provided with blocks. Younger students will learn volume; in how many blocks will make one bigger block. Some pupils will become passionate about their creative artistic constructions that they will produce a storyboard to interact with Minecraft.
Let pupils be free thinkers and see what ideas they can bring to the world we know so much about.

How it maps to the curriculum

3-4
English

Strand: Oral Language

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

  • give and take turns in speaking and experience a classroom environment in which tolerance for the views of others is fostered
  • initiate conversations and respond to the initiatives of others in talking about experiences and activities
  • make lists of local expressions and words
  • practise the common social functions in the everyday context of class and school and through improvisational drama

Suggestions for use: Use this blank slate as a way of allowing your students to become free thinkers. Allow them to use the building blocks to create a world where their story will happen with characters that will boost their imagination skills and childlike adventures. Once students have their Minecraft world build, next stage is to allow students to share their worlds with each other along with their future ideas. Once shared, they need to keep their worlds safe by introducing their world in their creative story writing exercise before it vanishes from memory forever.

3-4
Mathematics

Strand: Early Maths Activities

Strand unit: Comparing

Suggestions for use: Use in maths for students to compare units ans volume of block sizes in relation to one another/ Fractions.

Meta information

  • Asset type: Online Resource
  • Language: English
  • Rights: All rights reserved
  • Cost: No
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