Build or Bust
Choose from one of the following options to develop your learning. Work with others or work solo. Just be ready to share when the time ends!
Challenge 1: Teacher World
Create a group of teachers to work collaboratively in a world. This will blow the minds of your students when they see their teachers all in one world with a grid system of homes, structures, and more. What better to excite students than to show them that you love Minecraft also!
1. One teacher will host the world
2. Other teachers will be "students"
3. Plot out your grid of the layout of your world. See example below.
4. Build homes, structurs, pixel art, etc.
Layout example comes from City World
Challenge 2: Coding in Minecraft Education
Open up Code Connection and explore the tutorials. Learn how to code to make life much easier to create massive structures. Explore coding by building and manipulating objects in Minecraft. This is a wonderful way to help students get excited about coding in the classroom.
Challenge 3: Remix a Lesson
Explore the lessons already created in Minecraft Education. Do the lesson, create the tasks. Along the way take notes about how it could be used to enhance learning in the classroom.
Also, think about how you can remix the lesson to ensure it fits your needs of the learning of students.
Take it a step further by creating your own lesson and then submit it to the site
Challenge 4: Remix a World
Explore the worlds already created in Minecraft Education. Explore the worlds and create the tasks. Along the way take notes about how it could be used to enhance learning in the classroom.
Also, think about how you can remix the world to ensure it fits your needs of the learning of students.
Take it a step further by creating your own world. Don't stress about building it all, but rather how could you create the world in which students enter and bring it to life with their creations.
Challenge 5: Can you survive the night in Minecraft Education?
Could you mix a Minecraft Education World or Lesson with a Virtual Field Trip on Skpye in the Classroom?
Here are some tips
1. Chop down trees( at least two)
2. Kill some animals. Try to get at least 3 sheep if you can
3. Convert wood into plans so you can make a Crafting Table
4. Craft a bed
5. Craft a door
6. Craft a chest
7. Make a House(start with dirt if you need to!)
a. Good start is 10x12 frame with ceiling about 5 high
b. Make windows by Craft a Furnace and heating sand
Crafting Tips
1. Items in red you don’t have materials for, but you can click and it will show you what you need!
2. The other items you can select and it will pull items to craft table for you.
Challenge 6: Activities of the Week
Pick one of the weekly activities shared by the Minecraft Education Community and actually complete it to learn more about how to infuse MCEE into your classroom
If Pinterest is blocked, then head to page for some of the ideas
Challenge 7: General Learning
- Work through Tutorial World
- Work on House Project
Challenge 8: Aquatic Update
The new aquatic update is here. Check out all the new things with this update and explore
All updates details included here
Mix with Coral Live 2018
Before you unplug for the summer, pencil into your autumn agenda #CoralLive - an interactive way to teach science and geography live from field research. By then, the Digital Explorer team will have expanded. Thank you for being part of our growing global community!
Original image: Catlin Seaview Survey, Lady Elliot Island, Southern Great Barrier Reef © 2008 Underwater Earth/Richard Vever
Save the date for Coral Live: end of October – beginning of November 2018
#CoralLive will be back with investigations, interviews with field scientists and ‘Ask me anything’ broadcasts from the sunny coral ocean at the end of October. Running for a third time, XL Catlin Coral Live is a great way to connect your science and geography lessons to a field expedition as you link to our webcasts.
Last year, over 10,000 students and teachers talked to marine biologists and ecologists from Bermuda who brought the coral reef and its wonders to life. This time, we plan to reach twice as many of you from a new location. Keep an eye open for the August newsletter for more details.