Embedded Files
Teacher Site
Teacher Site
Welcome to Museum Minecraft: Rocks and Minerals!
Welcome to Museum Minecraft: Rocks and Minerals!
In this program, your students will:
Explore the Royal Ontario Museum's Research Centre in Rocklandia and help the ROM scientists with their research.
Talk to the Indigenous Scientists who live in Rocklandia to learn more about the land and the rocks you encounter.
Use their agents to code their way through challenges on each path.
Unlock the final door to build their own rock and mineral museum!
Sharing your class's Minecraft adventure on social media? Tag @ROMtoronto #ROMminecraft to share it with us!
Sharing your class's Minecraft adventure on social media? Tag @ROMtoronto #ROMminecraft to share it with us!
Teacher Orientation
Teacher Orientation
This orientation was designed for the Guided Program, but most things are also applicable to the Independent Program.
0:14 - Introduction to the Teacher Site
0:48 - Key Links & Student Site
2:06 - Setting up your Flip Helpdesk
3:20 - Backing up code and world files
4:08 - Solutions to coding problems
4:53 - Resources (including Lesson Plans)
5:20 - Alternate Student Site (if your school/board has blocked Google Sites)
7:16 - Pre-program steps (including Class Charter and consequences for not using Minecraft in a productive way)
9:17 - Signs to look for to tell if your students are on/off task
12:40 - How to Play worlds for beginners
13:24 - Achievement Hunters Badges (for completionists and/or advanced students)
14:00 - Lesson Plans
14:45 - Finding the Coding FUNdamentals lessons
16:05 - Leveraging your student Minecraft experts
17:08 - Program structure
17:18 - Troubleshooting
Key Links
Key Links
Program Structure - IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ FIRST
World Files
World Files
Direct World File Download - You can share this link with students.
Academic and Technical Supports
Academic and Technical Supports
Lesson Plans - Scaffolded lessons, worksheets, and rubrics
New to Minecraft? - Additional support for teachers and students on Minecraft Basics and Coding Fundamentals.
Videos not playing? - Find all the support videos in this YouTube playlist. If any are missing, please let Sarah know.
Teacher Coding Camp - Play along as we teach you the fundamental skills you'll need to help your students learn to code.
Getting Started
Getting Started
The Student Site has detailed video breakdowns of everything you and your students need to get started.
Backing up Student Work
Backing up Student Work
A critical habit for students to develop is backing up their finished code and their world files on a regular basis. Even with the new cloud backups, if students make a big error, such as accidentally deleting half their big build through code, the cloud backup will restore the destroyed structure. Regular backups help protect your students from the emotional impact of large-scale work loss.
If you can, it's a good idea to have a class cloud folder for storing their world backups. You don't have to keep every day's work; two sequential backups are usually enough to ensure safety. If a new save turns out to be corrupt or flawed in some way, they've got the older one to fall back on, and when they add a third backup to their folder, they can delete the oldest one.
Backing up your finished code (and importing code)
Backing up your finished code (and importing code)
Backing up your world file
Backing up your world file
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