Can you build your dream home for a dream pet?

I will award 150 house points for anyone who can build an epic Goat Dream Home - similar to the one that is shared on the stem page for this week. Goats like to climb, swing and be up high - I wonder what you can come up with?

Using this image of a flower and all its parts, can you create a similar model in Minecraft? You will first need to think of a living thing and then think of if you are going to build it in 3D or create an flat-lay image of it in 2D? Once you have created your image, remember to use signs or poster boards to clearly label the parts. Can't wait to see what you ca create on our celebration wall.

We are learning about Biological Science - understanding living things. You have chosen your own living thing to research. While you cannot build your diorama's and Claymations - you could have go at creating a habitat for your chosen creature. You could add labels of their life cycle, food webs, predator and prey relationships. Don't forget to share it on the celebration wall.

Build what ever you like - completely free choice and share it with us on our celebration wall.

You might like to build a roller coaster and screen record yourself going for a ride!

You might like to show what you know about a natural disaster.

You might like to make a giant statue of your favourite book character.

You might like to create a model of your favourite movie.

You might just like to build your whatever your imagination comes up with!

Good luck!

By now you have built a futuristic school, learnt about the water cycle, built water saving devices and even looked at things we can build with and under water. I want you to combine all of these learning experiences and design your dream home. This dream home needs to be sustainable - which means you need to think of how you can include water saving ideas, animal protection ideas and energy saving ideas. Remember, keep using your camera and portfolio to record ideas.

Please use blackboards in your world to describe what is sustainable about your build?

As a challenge, you might like to use the iPad function 'Screen Record' to record yourself flying around your home, explaining to us what you have built.

Good Luck!

I want you to imagine what TCPS would look like in 100 years time. Can you build this in Minecraft? Can you use the blackboards to show what types of futuristic things we would have.

What types of sustainable areas would we have? A water tank? Our own farm area? Veggie Patch?

Let your build imagination go wild!

Put up blackboards to explain what you have built and share it on our celebration wall.

Good luck!

This week's challenge asks you to add something extra to an existing build. You will need to go into a world you have already created and think about building something you could store rain water in. Water is essential for survival in the real world.

Think about ways to store water. You may need to build a completely new area to live that is closer to a water source so you can harness that.

Will you build a rain water collection area, or challenge yourself to build a hydro plant or a reservoir?

Share your water storage ideas over on the celebration wall.

In Minecraft, you can use 'blackboards' from the inventory. You can type information on to these.

I challenge you to build the 4 stages of the water cycle (condensation, precipitation, collection and evaporation). With each model that you have built, put up a blackboard with information on it about that stage.

Just to jog your memory - if you had forgotten.

I know how much you love this song! Don't let it get stuck in your heads!

This is a fantasitc way of how we can use Minecraft to help our real world problems, in this case - regenerating the coral in damaged coral reefs. What would you design? Go to Challenge #1 below, to find out more

Sit back and watch this beautiful video. Enjoy how the narrator is describing the details of the reef.

The best part here is, you can interact with this video by using the toggle controls in the upper left hand corner. It's similar to exploring in Minecraft. By exploring through this coral reef video, I want you to get ideas for your own underwater Minecraft world. Go to Challenge #2 below to find out more.

Watch this National Geographic Kids clip. It has some great facts about dolphins. Interestingly, this was filmed with dolphins in captivity, which we know is not the greatest for them. However, the aquatic center tell us in the clip, they are moving their dolphins to a more ocean-like caring center to allow for more beneficial learning to occur.

Take notes of facts around dolphins and what humans can do to help them in the wild. Go to challenge #3 below to find out more.

After watching the Coral Crafters, 360 Coral Reef and the Dolphin videos, you are challenged to choose 3 Minecraft Ideas as we celebrate National Science Week - underwater innovations. Choose a challenge below to complete this week, and remember to share on our celebration wall.

Challenge #1: Coral Crafting

If you got to build a structure to go underwater to generate new coral - what would you build and why. Create your structure in Minecraft - it doesn't have to be underwater, you can just create in a brand new flat world. Explain why you have chosen your structure - how does it connect to the importance of preserving our coral reefs? Share on the celebration wall.

Challenge #2: Build your own underwater world.

Using Minecraft Education Edition, create a new world - making sure it has an ocean (eg don't use the world if it is a desert biome, you'll need one with water). Name your new world "Underwater Challenge". Try and build something underwater - what things can you do? Remember to share what you have done on the celebration wall.

Challenge #3: Create a marine hospital for injured dolphins.

You can spawn dolphin's in Minecraft Education by using the dolphin egg in your inventory . Can you create a marine hospital for injured dolphins? You will need to think about building areas that they can be with other dolphins as they are pod creatures, you'll need to think about food and enrichment toys and activities for them to help with their recovery. You will need to have sign posts educating others about dolphins.

Watch my video, and scroll all the way down to the lesson plan so you can see all of the information for this week.

Have fun!

If you need anything, you can contact me on lindsay.gardiner@education.vic.gov.au

Remember to download the Minecraft Education Edition app from the app store.

If not, you can also just use the normal Minecraft if you already have it.

Your log in is something like this; LGARD2@schools.vic.edu.au

And your password will be something like this: Wonder3!

Remember to take 3 deep breaths if you're having trouble, and ask for some help.

Open a "creative" world.

Build a hut, treehouse or mini house that will keep you safe from rain, storms, floods and fires.

What will you need to make sure you have in your shelter that will allow you to stay safe?

Record your build with your camera and portfolio. Take a screen shot of your house and share it with everyone below on our Minecraft Celebration Wall.

This 5 minute video shows you how to build a house from the ground up. It uses a plan, just like you would if you were using LEGO. Have a watch to see if you can pick up any ideas and tips on how to start building the type of house you might like. I know I'll be using this to help me - a lot!

For this week, I would like you to watch the build tutorial above. This explains that the best way to build a house is to start with a floor plan. This is the "map" that will help you build upwards. It's a little bit like building a LEGO house.

After watching the tutorial, use a pen and paper to plan a shelter design. You might like to do a few designs first, and choose your favourite one.

Then have a go at building in your world. Taking photos of your build as you go using the camera and portfolio option.

Remember, if you get a bit frustrated, take 3 deep breaths, go for a walk around your house and then come back to it.

Don't spend longer than 30 mins at a time building. Your neck and posture need to be taken care of, stretch and do some yoga in between. Taking care of yourself while you are using screens is very important.

Have fun and share your builds on our celebration wall below by taking screen shots.

When you return to school, we will start to use Minecraft Education to develop our engineering design skills, our maths skills, our digital creativity and coding skills. Before we start, we must all discuss and decide on the safe way we use Minecraft Education in STEM. I want you to think about appropriate use of digital software, our behaviour and ways we can be positive within the Minecraft builds.

I want you to practise your log in emails, and passwords. Your class teachers have provided this to you.

If you can successfully log in to the Minecraft Education app, are you able to find the ' monthly build challenges' in the Library section?

I want you to explore the 'Build a Treehouse' challenge. Create your own world, and have a go.

Have a look at the document on iPad challenges. Choose 2 or 3 different ideas and have a go at them. These are activities that you don't need an extra app for - all of the ideas can be done with things that already exist on your iPad.

For example, you might choose number 10 from the grid. Then scroll through the document to read more about that challenge. Use your ipad to complete it and share it with someone at home - or post it to your class SeeSaw page.

Good luck!

Using ingredients and materials from around you home, either in your pantry, fridge or garden, I want you to explore how to turn them into paints.

Watch the video for some ideas.

Experiment with ways to get the colour out of certain things.

Experiment with what you mix it with - water, oil, milk?

Experiment with liquid temperatures - does the colour appear brighter with hot water than it does with cold?

After you have created your paints, name them and paint us a picture for the celebration wall.

How did you go with .Code.Org last week? Did you end up doing a dance party?

If you would like to, have a go at coding a 'flappy game' this week. Click here

Follow along - please remember, if the Code.org is too hard, you don't have to worry. Try something else on this page and share to our celebration wall

Watch this clip:

https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/lava?code=8e85e0169ab2e4fc71a9a008cd418539

What information can you share with someone at home about lava after watching this clip? Upload something to our celebration wall if you like.

Remember to ask permission first before you do this experiment. And - if your family doesn't have a Berocca tablet - you do not need to go out and get one. You can just make your observation from my video.

CHALLENGE ACTIVITY:

If you enjoyed exploring Blockly, you might like to go to Scratch and watch some tutorials.

Scratch is a site that allows you to create your own 'stories' and games, using block coding.

It is similiar to Hopscotch that we used last year.

You will need to watch the tutorials first. Follow this link:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted

Remember, watch the tutorials. Start with a blank project and use the colour coded options on the left hand side. You can choose an action and a sound and see what happens.