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Fifth grade students may write code to have a “digital assistant” build a room of a particular perimeter and area. Students will have to cooperatively plan their room, agreeing that the math is correct on paper before they begin. They will have to teach themselves much of the code with the tutorial provided and perform multiple tests, fixing “bugs” to make sure the digital assistant performs correctly.

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Fourth grade pairs of students may build a 3D volcano and record the process with virtual “selfies,” creating a picture portfolio to share with their teacher. They will have to agree on a mountain range that lends itself to the project, how to show the parts they must identify, agree on labels, and which photos to take and use. They will have to work together to write meaningful captions for these photos to show mastery of the science learning targets.

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Third graders may write a script that explains homophone pairs, create the scenes in Minecraft, act out their play, and create a video to share with others. They will need to work in teams with members filling the roles of storyteller, scriptwriter, set builder, videographer, and film editor.

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Second grade students may build a pueblo village in Minecraft when they study Native Americans. They will have to do some research about Pueblo Indians and their homes and, in small groups, decide where and how to build their villages, what to include, and the role each will play in their creation.

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First graders may recreate the set of a favorite fairy tale or nursery rhyme, such as “The Three Little Pigs” or “Humpty Dumpty,” with a partner. They will have to talk about their plan and sketch it out in advance.

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Kindergarteners may show ways to “make 7” in Minecraft. After creating their seven they may travel through the world to visit each other’s creations and to talk to other students about their solutions.

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Digital Storytelling, making machinima

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Machinima created in Minecraft by elementary students Fall 2016

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Nomads - Defined STEM building a home with the materials in your environment: sand, grass, dirt, wood

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Use 100s grid for review of skip counting, prime numbers, factors, etc.

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Geometry: build with symmetry, perimeter, area, volume, etc.

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STEM: roller coaster (circuits, force, motion}

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Ancient Egypt - teams build pyramids, tombs, show learning inside pyramids in world where they cannot fly

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Breakout in minecraft with pistons and locks

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This is from a students on the peninsula who used Minecraft to show what he learned about Jamestown. Adapt this idea for any historical or literature lesson where the setting could be reproduced.

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minecraft jamestown school project 5th grade colonial virginia

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5th grade Jamestown project built in Minecraft.

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Have older students build a city with embedded fractions for younger students to find and identify.
What fraction of the rug is blue?
What fraction of flowers are sunflowers?

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Wes Fryer's STEM Minecraft Engineering Challenges

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Wes Fryer's STEM Minecraft Engineering Challenges

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Some were made for MinecraftEDU, no longer available, but you can use the idea and build your own lesson in the version you are using.

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25 Ways Minecraft is Being Used in the Classroom

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25 Ways Minecraft is Being Used in the Classroom

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Check out all of these ideas from art and music, to virtual science experiments. Lots of great ideas!!!

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It's hard to believe that just six years ago Minecraft was virtually unheard of. It was little more than a hobby project for creator and designer Markus Persson. Fast forward to 2016 and Minecraft has completely changed the way we perceive videogames.

Starting as a novelty in a handful of innovative classrooms, Minecraft is now a foundation of curriculums around the world and has found it's way into popular culture, books, LEGO and even kid's parties! From math to art to geography and even quantum mechanics, Minecraft and imaginative educators are turning bland subjects into incredible immersive learning experiences.

Minecraft in the Classroom by Fractus Learning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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"Students measured every part of the school to calculate how many blocks they would need for each room and had to decide whether to round up or down measurements."
Matthew Bell - Primary Teacher at Stackpole VC School, UK
"Digital spaces like Minecraft can instill in our students lifelong skills in communicating and collaborating effectively with people all over the world, regardless of race, religion or gender."
Colin Gallagher - Teacher at the ISS International School, Singapore
"I have recently started developing a Minecraft scheme of work. They concentrate on creating the setting up of the different spaces in Minecraft and they show you how to use the NOT/AND/OR gates."
Ray Chambers - Head of IT/Computing at Uppingham Community College, UK
"You might have students identify aspects of a theater, or use it as a tool for presentations. If you really want to go nuts, have students create these models themselves."
Andrew Miller - Educational Consultant and Instructional Coach
"An English-language teacher in Denmark told children they could play Minecraft collectively in the classroom but with one caveat: they were allowed to communicate both orally and through text only in English."
André Chercka - Special Ed teacher in Denmark
"Students will create Minecraft worlds illustrating the process of climate change within the atmosphere and physical earth, design and build a sustainable home on sustainable land to withstand the process of climate change." Minecraft Education Resources "Modding also has another use, and we think it's the key to making Minecraft time productive. By modding Minecraft, children as young as seven can learn to code using the Java programming language."
David Dodge - Founder of CodaKid
"Given the amazing freedom of this virtual playground, Minecraft books take on so many different forms. From handbooks, crafts, novels and activities, there there are so many books to blow the minds of young Minecraft fans."
Wade Gegan - Fractus Learning
"Real experiments like this one often require a lot of money and time, and so we can't really do that for every kid. Or can we? Doing real science in the virtual world of Minecraft a lot faster and less expensively than we could in the real world - and without having to get wet!"
Dr. Michael Connell - Education scientist
"Students were asked to create a model of a sustainable city that used little energy. Students were able to build their cities as they saw fit and were given a particular role of farmer, builder, or miner."
Jeffrey Adams - Middle School Science Teacher at Crescent School, Toronto
"There are also a whole load of treasure chests dotted around filled with goodies, puzzles and quiz books. Some are easy to find, others are fiendishly difficult. If you locate them all then you'll probably have learnt a fair bit of chemistry along the way!" University of Hull "I've been using Minecraft for about a year now, I had seen people creating songs by Katy Perry and thought that it might be quite difficult. I couldn't have been more wrong."
Ray Chambers - Head of IT/Computing at Uppingham Community College, UK
"To evaluate the children's understanding of rivers, I challenged them to build one on Minecraft. They had to include examples of all the features we had focused on and create it in a clear way."
Leeroy Parky - Primary teacher in Manchester, UK
"As a result, most conflicts in Minecraft Club have been resolved in under 5 minutes. Students are learning how to advocate for themselves, resolve conflicts, and repair relationships in a peaceful manner... such valuable social skills in life."
Keegan Albaugh - Co-Curricular Coordinator at Centerpoint School
"Allow players of Minecraft to enjoy artworks like never before. Delve into imaginary worlds inspired by famous paintings and the real-life places they depict. Undertake challenges relating to the themes of each artwork, explore how they were made and hear the stories they have to tell." Tate Gallery "Rube Goldbergs provide a way for students to demonstrate their understanding of Physics concepts in a physical way. Minecraft is another way for students to tap into that creativity when they don't have access to a craft space or wood working tools." Minecraft Education Resources "Students login to Minecraft where I have recreated the setting of the vignette they have just read, complete with both familiar and new characters. The students interact with and learn more details and experience different perspectives about the scene which they record in their in-game diaries."
John Miller - Middle school teacher in King City, California
"We are going to build a histogram representing our results of the data. I'm going to give you a Minecraft block to place at the correct place on this line of values. Put the block on the line at the place that represents the total number of mushrooms you collected."
Dave Faulkner - Educational game designer and former teacher
"I hooked the students with the game, but I was able to convey the important information of Punalu'u that included pictures, mo'olelo, and real life data."
Nathan Javellana - Science and Technology Instructor at Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii
"Embedded in the design and the lore of the game are nuggets of philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology. From work/life balance to physical and mental health to the meaning of life Minecraft has something to teach us."
Mike Langlois - Game Therapist
"They were told to use 36 cubes to make the floor of a building. They had to make the model for the floor, draw a picture, record the info for the array and then find the perimeter." ElementaryAMC "One of the easiest ways to get your creative juices flowing in Minecraft is pixel art. Pixel art uses various blocks in Minecraft to create pictures."
Jon Hook - Minecraft World
"From the definition of "number" to the commutative property of addition to the relationship between addition and multiplication. We explored some topics, like square roots, that were not part of my original plan but that emerged during the conversation."
Dr. Michael Connell - Education scientist
"Finding common ground between schoolchildren and quantum-mechanics researchers is no easy task. However, through a recent collaboration with Google, researchers at Caltech have created a new space for this unlikely interaction-in the world of Minecraft, a popular video game." California Institute of Technology
"By far the greatest effect Minecraft has had on my students was a change in the classroom culture and attitudes about education."

Jim Pike - Former teacher at Ascension Catholic School, Los Angeles

Are you doing anything exciting with Minecraft in your school? Let us know the real ways your students are learning with this amazing game in the comments below.

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25 Real Ways Minecraft is Being Used in the Classroom

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It's hard to believe that just six years ago Minecraft was virtually unheard of. It was little more than a hobby project for creator and designer Markus Persson. Fast forward to 2016 and Minecraft has completely changed the way we perceive videogames.

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There is a great You Tube video of a quick lesson about the difference between solid, liquid, and gas taught in Minecraft in a way students would never forget.

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MinecraftEdu Class - Solids, Liquids and Gases

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In this class we model the particles in a solid, liquid and gas. Applying heat between each change of state. We had briefly discussed the three states of matter and particles. Find out about the mod here. http://minecraftedu.com/ Follow my blog here. http://minecrafteduelfie.blogspot.com/ Follow me on twitter for updates. @tickleme_elfman