Minecraft - Ideas for the classroom by Jim Cash

Basics

2015-03-26 21:24:08 UTC

You should assume that students know nothing and teach the basics step by step before you say go and experiment

Chink the basics with fun time and once they have a minaret of skills then you can challenge them with more complex inquiries

Structures

2015-03-27 11:41:45 UTC

Have students recreate famous structures from around the world. Have the students make their own.

Water Cycle

2015-03-27 11:42:26 UTC

Create the water cycle with the students to show evaporation, condensation, ....

Forces

2015-03-27 11:43:48 UTC

Have the students create roller coaster with electrified tracks to show forces of push and pull with magnetics

Journals or Narrative

2015-03-27 11:45:01 UTC

Have the students create a world that they "own" . Have them create stories about characters in this world. Get them to use descriptive words about the environments that they have created. This can be an ongoing narrative or journal that students add to every week.

Rural/Urban

2015-03-27 11:47:47 UTC

Have students create a rural world and a urban world, talk about the similarities and the difference

Mapping

2015-03-27 11:48:36 UTC

Have the students use their world to create an offline map of what their world looks like.