Minecraft Education
The Minecraft Education Building Challenge gives students across the Division the opportunity to showcase their creativity by engaging in a competition to create inclusive classrooms where all students can excel.
Minecraft Education Build Challenge 2024 Prompt:
Design a classroom which supports all students, and fosters the values of collaboration, equity, sustainability, and diversity.
What is Minecraft Education?
Minecraft Education allows teachers to design lessons, personalize the game and effectively communicate the learning objective with students for direct curricular connections.
Teachers can also access pre-made lesson plans and virtual worlds created by Minecraft and a community of engaged teachers from around the world. Students can collaborate on projects, document their work and share it in the virtual classroom. The creating environment is secure and only open to those students in the virtual classroom community.
The use of this app is considered a higher-level tool for classroom implementation that requires clear communication to staff, students and parents with purposeful action, support and follow-up. Successful implementation of this application will require teacher initiative for self-directed learning and exploration.
Getting Started? Check out our Teacher Resource below!
Having issues with Downloading Minecraft Education?
Requesting Minecraft Education Accounts
In order for teachers and students to access the Minecraft Education app via the Google Play Store using EPSB accounts, basic Microsoft accounts are required and modifications must be made to the wifi. There is no cost to the school for Minecraft Education.
To request Minecraft Education for your school, please read the teacher resource first to ensure Minecraft Education is a suitable fit for your learning goals and your school community.
Accounts are provisioned on an annual basis. Student accounts will be turned over at the end of June. Please keep in mind that this could take 5-7 days.
If you have any questions, please email david.herrera.cruz@epsb.ca
Minecraft Education Tutorial Videos
Getting Started with Minecraft Education?
Watch this video, hosted by Logics Academy, to get started with requesting accounts, learn the basics of Minecraft Education, and an overview of how you can use Minecraft Education in your classroom. You'll be introduced to lesson plans, world templates, and more.
Want to learn how to build in Minecraft Education?
Check out this video, hosted by Logics Academy, to learn how to build the basics! With lots of materials in the inventory in creative mode, you can ensure that students have all the materials they need to build anything they can.
Want to learn how to code in Minecraft Education?
Check out this video, hosted by Logics Academy, to learn about coding and how you can bring coding into your own classroom. With lots of tutorials, coding can be an easy way to implement basics into your classroom seamlessly.
“Minecraft Education is an open-world game that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is your imagination.”
If you would like to use Minecraft with students, there are requirements for FOIP consent and parental notification.
This is a third-party app, as it exists outside of the Division-provided software applications. A Privacy Impact Assessment has been completed and accepted for the Minecraft Education.