Minecraft Education in your classroom
Now that you understand the potential impact of Minecraft Education in your classroom and are familiar with its gameplay, it’s time to change gears and think about integrating this tool into your teaching. Let’s consider the wealth of resources available to you for this purpose.
The world(s) at your fingertips - The in-game library
When accessing the library in Minecraft Education, you find a variety of educational resources, featuring categories such as subject kits, challenges, starter worlds, and instructional guides. These categories are curated to support you in using this learning tool.
Exploring any category reveals a variety of resources tailored to different educational themes. Within each subject kit, for instance, you find lessons each associated with a unique Minecraft world created specifically to support the lesson's objectives. These lessons typically come equipped with detailed lesson plans, clear learning objectives, alignment to educational standards, and additional instructional resources, all accessible from the lesson's overview page.
Valuable resources for educators - The Minecraft Education website
The Minecraft Education website serves as a central hub for educators looking to integrate Minecraft into their teaching toolkit. Accessible at https://education.minecraft.net, this platform provides a wealth of resources to enhance classroom experiences.
On the Minecraft Education website, you find a lot of educational content. This content has different subject kits that cover many topics, from science to language arts and more. The Minecraft Education team and educators around the world make these kits for students of any age.
These are lessons from different subject areas. Search for ones that match the subjects and learning objectives that you teach right now. After you review the educational resources and related worlds, think about how you could use these lessons in your own classroom.
| Subject | Lesson Name | Overview |
|---|---|---|
| Science | Build With Bees | Students compare characteristics common to all insects with a honeybee’s anatomy before using this information to design and build their own bees. |
| Math | M.A.T.H. Mummy Mayhem | Explore the mysteries of ancient Egypt and solve mathematical puzzles rumored to be left behind by a cunning mathematical mummy, in collaboration with Cambridge Mathematics. |
| Computer Science | Hour Of Code: Generation AI | Journey through time to craft AI-powered inventions using coding skills in Block or Python, guided by principles of responsible AI, to contribute to the advancement of beneficial AI. |
| Language Arts | Adventures In English With Cambridge | Practice your English in our story-driven Minecraft world, created by experts at Cambridge. Go on an epic quest packed with puzzles, characters, and multiple worlds to explore. |
| History & Culture | LATINEXPLORERS: A Hispanic Heritage Journey | Explore Hispanic heritage and how Latinos are leading the way, from helping those in need and standing up for others, to expressing what makes us truly special – so we can all flourish. ¡Dale! |
| Art & Design | Influential Artists | Study Michelangelo’s influential artworks and techniques, then apply those techniques to create your own masterpieces in Minecraft. |
| Digital Citizenship | Cyber Safe: Home Sweet Hmm | Introduce students to internet safety, digital identity, and privacy principles through a creative and interactive one-hour journey in CyberSafe: Home Sweet Hmm. |
| Social Emotional | Reflect World | Foster social-emotional skills such as collaboration, problem-solving, and effective communication through a vibrant and creative Minecraft world. |
| Equity & Inclusion | Lessons In Good Trouble | Follow United States Representative John Lewis on a time-traveling adventure to meet key figures in social justice movements, inspiring students to be agents of Good Trouble and change. |
| Climate & Sustainability | Planet Earth III | Investigate the impact of habitat loss on the intricate relationship between leopards and impalas, exploring their hunting and grazing behaviors within the Minecraft ecosystem. |