Minecraft Education Lesson Library

Minecraft: Science

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Minecraft Education - Tomatosphere™ Adventure

Lesson Overview Canadian Grade 4 to Grade 9 Educators – Investigate the effects of outer space on seed germination with your class. Tomatosphere™ is a hands-on program that builds scientific inquiry a

Minecraft Education - Novel Study (Grades 4-8)

Description This lesson will help you integrate Minecraft Education activities to supplement your current novel study unit. The activities are general enough that they will apply to any novel you are

Minecraft Education - Human Body (Grades 4-8)

Description In this lesson, students will learn how to integrate Minecraft Education activities to supplement your current Human Body unit. Students will specifically learn about the various Human Bod

Minecraft Education - Fractions, Decimals & Coding in Math

Description In this lesson, students will learn how to integrate Minecraft Education activities to supplement the current Fractions & Decimals unit and show how coding can be integrated in math. Our v

Minecraft Education - Dig into Geology (Grades 4-8)

Description In this lesson, students will learn how to integrate Minecraft Education activities to supplement cross curricular activities for Science units on geology and social studies units on geogr

Minecraft Education - Coding with Minecraft (Grades 2-3)

Description In this lesson, students will explore 5 essential computer science lessons that not only help develop the ability to code, but also enhance problem solving and creativity. During these les

Minecraft Education - Coding in Minecraft (Grades 7-8)

Description In this lesson, students will explore 5 essential computer science lessons that not only help develop the ability to code, but also enhance problem-solving and creativity. After exploring

Minecraft Education - Changemakers of Canadian History (Grades 4-8)

Description In this lesson, students will explore three impactful parts of Canadian History (the Canadian Pacific Railway, Viola Desmond, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission). After exploring

Minecraft Education - Biodiversity and Conservation (Grades 4-8)

Description In this lesson, students will integrate Minecraft Education activities to supplement your Science units on ecosystems, habitats, or biodiversity. Additionally, these activities will pair w

Minecraft: City Planning - Survival Roads

Description In this lesson, students will build roads that are 0.2 kilometers long and write equations to figure out how many blocks they will need. Objectives Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in

Minecraft: Subtraction World

Description In this lesson, students will begin to explore the mathematical operation "subtraction" in a wonderful Minecraft World divided into three large zones. Objectives Write on paper the result

Minecraft: Pixel Selfies

Description In this lesson, students will use Minecraft blocks as “pixels” to produce pixel art versions of themselves, portrait or full body. Objectives Students will be able to recreate a self-portr

Minecraft: Algebra Architecture

Description In this lesson, students will begin to identify arithmetic patterns, including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table, and explain them using properties of operations. Obje

Minecraft: Fairy Tale Reimagined

Description In this lesson, students will use Minecraft tools to recreate a fairy tale. Objectives Students will demonstrate an understanding of digital storytelling and guiding the viewer through a c

Minecraft: Building Word Problems

Description In this lesson, students will use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities by using drawings a

Minecraft: Javelin Line Plots

Description In this lesson, students will engage in a javelin throwing competition in Minecraft, plotting the distances and scores on line plot graphs in the game. Objectives Collect data by throwing

Minecraft: Fractions Pixel Art

Description In this lesson, students will design a pixel art image then break down the colours into fractions, discuss number patterns & unit fractions, and build the designs in Minecraft. Objectives

Minecraft: Area and Volume

Description In this lesson, students will use Minecraft to create and solve problems involving area and volume. Objectives Students will recognize volume as an attribute of three-dimensional space. St

Minecraft: The Four Little Pigs - Structure Activity

Description In this lesson, students will complete a challenge to examine the houses of the three little pigs, and then build a house for a fourth little pig using better, stronger materials that will

Minecraft: Measuring Landforms

Description In this lesson, students will be able to create a unit of measurement and find the size of different landforms in Minecraft. Objectives Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using

Minecraft: Fractions Steeplechase

Description In this lesson, students will understand that fractions are like a number on the number line and how to represent fractions on a number line diagram. Objectives Build and explain Minecraft

Minecraft: Making Homes - Part 1

Description In this lesson, students will design a prototype of a home and calculate the area and perimeter of it. Objectives Students will apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real

Minecraft: Decimal Fraction Garden

Description In this lesson, students will demonstrate understanding a fractional and decimal relationships using a 10 x 10 garden. Objectives Students will be able to relate fractions and decimals usi

Minecraft: Hour of Code - Artificial Intelligence

Description In this lesson, students will learn the coding basics and explore a real-world example of artificial intelligence and program the Minecraft Agent to collect data about forest fires. Object

Minecraft: Arrays

Description In this lesson, students will use blocks and NPCs to solve increasingly difficult multiplication problems using arrays in a simple short project. Objectives Use multiplication within 100 t

Minecraft: Shipwreck Narrative

Description In this lesson, students will take their imagination to wherever they would like as they write a narrative about a mysterious shipwreck. Objectives Write informative/explanatory texts to e

Minecraft: Geometry World

Description In this lesson, students will discover the relationships between area & perimeter as they relate to quadrilaterals and other shapes. Objectives Construct several rectangles using a specifi

Minecraft: Building a Pollinator Garden

Description In this lesson, students will be able to explore the Pollinator Garden world to learn about bees and butterflies. They will then tour the museum and grounds, and gather supplies to create

Minecraft: Timecraft (Hour of Code 2021)

Description In this lesson, students will experience a choose-your-own-adventure game, exploring key moments in human achievement. Then, using their coding superpowers, students will save the future b

Minecraft: Museum Math - Rocks & Minerals

Description In this lesson, students will discover that three scientists from the Royal Ontario Museum are visiting Rocklandia to learn more about igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, and they

Minecraft: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Description In this lesson, students will identify how words and phrases supply meaning to a story, create their own narrative, and build an underground world in Minecraft. Objectives Students will de

Minecraft: Building with Bees - Bee Nests

Description In this lesson, students will be able to focus on exploring different bees species’ nesting sites and practices and how unique adaptations help bees survive in a variety of settings. Objec

Minecraft: Create Your Own Museum

Description In this lesson, students will be able to represent a particular topic and create a museum exhibit based on that topic. They will be able to create signs, slates, boards, and posters to des

Minecraft: Building with Bees - Bumble Buzz

Description In this lesson, students will be able to explain that different species of bumble bees prefer different habitats and identify two common bee species in their region. Students will also obs

Minecraft: Science Island

Description In this lesson, students will be introduced to Science Island - a world designed to allow students of all ages to formulate, test & modify a guess before generating a hypothesis which they

Minecraft: Green Building

Description In this lesson, students will investigate innovations in buildings that help to save energy and protect the environment. In groups, students will build new homes that use some of these tec

Minecraft: Outflow Order

Description In this lesson, students will explore how outflow (wastewater) gets from a home to a water treatment plant. They will also understand that biosolids are used in composting and learn how ou

Minecraft: Setting in Narrative Writing

Description In this lesson, students will be inspired by a desert biome with unexpected surprises as they explore the role of setting in narrative writing. Objectives Students tour a virtual setting t

Minecraft: Museum Heist

Description In this lesson, students will solve coding challenges and become a hero who unveils the masterpiece to the world but comparing and refining multiple algorithms, creating programs that incl

Minecraft: Dependable Forests

Description In this lesson, students will explore the concept of sustainable forests. Objectives Explore a sustainable forest in order to understand how it can be used consistently. Understand the imp

Minecraft: Types of Chemical Reactions

Description In this lesson, students will demonstrate different types of reactions such as displacement reaction occurring in Minecraft's Chemistry Lab. Objectives Students will learn about different

Minecraft: Coordinate System Tutorial

Description In this lesson, students will learn about coordinate systems and become familiarized with the 3D coordinate system used in Minecraft Education Edition. Objectives Students will become fami

Minecraft: Coding Coral Reef

Description In this lesson, students will learn about coral reefs by using code in Minecraft to build one. Objectives Re-build a coral reef in Minecraft by using code. Write your own functions to have

Minecraft: Python 101 (Part 1)

Description In this lesson, students will learn about how to begin coding using the programming language Python (lessons 1 - 5). Objectives Test and debug (identify and fix errors) a program or algori

Minecraft: What is the World Made of?

Description In this lesson, students will use the Material Reducer to better understand that natural and synthetic objects are all made of elements. Objectives Understand that natural and synthetic ob

Minecraft: Extinction! Orangutan's Future

Description In this lesson, students will learn about the value, threats, sustainable management of biodiversity before building an Orangutan reserve to benefit the people and profit the planet. Objec

Minecraft: Peace with Nature

Description In this lesson, students will explore how we can achieve sustainable lifestyles. They will also apply knowledge and understanding by building a sustainable place to live that represents ne

Minecraft: Bridge Building Challenge

Description In this lesson, students will design a bridge through a set of 6 build challenges. Objectives Demonstrate understanding of the physical sciences involved in bridge building Address various

Minecraft: Exploring Contour Maps

Description In this lesson, students will create and explore contour maps within the world of Minecraft. Objectives Select, organize and represent data and information in different forms, including by

Minecraft: Great Tech Story

Description In this lesson, students will learn where their phone, game console, or latest app came from. Students will also learn how computing in the past evolve into what we experience today and ho

Minecraft: Bridge Builders

Description In this lesson, students will design a bridge and convince others of its integrity and worth. Objectives Collaborate with others as you use your knowledge of bridges and symmetry Construct

Minecraft: Sustainable Home

Description In this lesson, students will explore a sustainably built home and learn where the materials come from as they build more efficient homes. Objectives Explore a home that has been built wit

Minecraft: Blocklympics

Description In this lesson, students will learn that Blocklympics is a one-to-five-hour creative introduction to the design of an inclusive, competitive, and fun Olympic games-style event. Students wi

Minecraft: Climate Warriors

Description In this lesson, students will put your firefighting skills to the test as they learn about how to prepare, act and recover from bushfires. Objectives Explain what material houses should be

Minecraft: Climate Futures - The Forest

Description In this lesson, students will go on an investigative mission in small groups to explore the impact of deforestation on climate change. Objectives To develop an understanding of deforestati

Minecraft: Climate Futures - The Farm

Description In this lesson, students will go on an investigative mission in small groups to explore the impact of agriculture on climate change. Objectives To develop an understanding of agriculture,

Minecraft: CyberSafe - Home Sweet Hmm

Description In this lesson, students will learn the fundamental principles of online safety and digital identity and demonstrate how they can be safe in digital spaces. Students will learn healthy dig

Minecraft: Active Citizen

Description In this lesson, students will learn the skills to participate in society actively and successfully. Students will also learn more about the Nobel Peace Laureates and the changes they creat

Minecraft: Sustainable Food Production

Description In this lesson, students will begin their journey at a grocery store where farm products are bought and sold and explore a sustainable farm and learn about soil conservation, crop rotation

Minecraft: Think of the Future

Description In this lesson, students build a statue which represents their country now and in the future. Objectives Discuss what makes your country unique and what it will look like by the end of the

Minecraft: School E-Sports

Description In this lesson, students will develop ways to set up an Esports competition using Minecraft Education Edition with a focus on student voice and agency. Objectives Build a safe collaborativ

Minecraft: Mercury and Venus

Description In this lesson, students will explore the Minecraft Space Center and experience their first day of training as new space explorers. This lesson will expand on the Fundamental Coding concep

Minecraft: Alternative Energy

Description In this lesson, students will be able to explore hydropower, wind power, and waste-to-energy. Students will understand how mechanical and electrical energy play a part in alternative energ

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Minecraft: Assessing the Social & Environmental Effects of Mining

Description In this lesson, students will select a resource that is mined in Canada. Students will research the resource to understand the social and environmental effects caused by the mining process

Minecraft: Replicating Landmarks

Description In this lesson, students will research and recreate a structure from history such as a building, monument, castle, bridge, or other large manmade object. Objectives To learn about the hist

Minecraft: The City of Florence (Italy)

Description In this lesson, students will discover the history of the beautiful city of Florence: Piazza del Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio, Santa Maria Novella, Campanile di Giotto, Ponte Vecchio. Objectives

Minecraft: The Excavation Site

Description In this lesson, students will simulate an archeological dig site by collecting and documenting artifacts. Students will inference possible explanations of civilization characteristics base

Minecraft: Escape the Pyramid

Description In this lesson, students will get a chance to travel to ancient Egypt and play an escape room inside a pyramid. Objectives Learn how to solve problems creatively Learn about ancient Egypt

Minecraft: Meet and Greet

Description In this lesson, students will get a chance to ask a person from the past what it was like and research history through a deeper, immersive level in Minecraft: Education Edition. Objectives

Minecraft: Conflict in Stories

Description In this lesson, students will explore a set of related conflicts and consider ways they might bring resolution through story-telling and world-building. Objectives Students observe in-game

Minecraft: 6 Room Poem Maze

Description In this lesson, students will walk through a maze while they write and build creatively. Students will be able to develop techniques for descriptive writing as well as revise writing to in

Minecraft: Building with Bees - Habitats

Description In this lesson, students will apply their knowledge of bees’ lifelong needs to build Minecraft “beetopias” to support and grow their very own bee colonies. Objectives Students will list th

Minecraft: Lessons in Good Trouble

Description Journey through time with Congressman John Lewis to meet leaders of social justice movements who were catalysts for Good Trouble and positive change. Objectives Students will understand so

Minecraft: Extinction! Safari

Description Explore a rollercoaster around the most charismatic extinct species, investigate the causes and what we can do to stop the biodiversity crisis. Objectives Students learn about species exti

Minecraft: Extinction! Biodiversity Lab

Description Explore the lab to learn core concepts of biodiversity then apply your knowledge to reveal the processes behind the five threatened species biomes. Objectives Students learn about the conc

Minecraft: A Tale of Two Villages

Description In this lesson, students will use block-based or Python code to bring two villages together. Students also explore themes of empathy, diversity, inclusion, and cooperation. Objectives Unde

Minecraft: Element Scavenger Hunt

Description In this lesson, students will demonstrate understanding that substances are made from different types of atoms, which combine with one another in various ways. Objectives Use the material

Minecraft: The Mindful Knight

Description In this lesson, students will be introduced to the basics of mindfulness to help them understand the benefits and main concepts of this skill. Objectives An individual has the ability to i

Minecraft: History & Culture

Minecraft: Manito Ahbee Aki

Description In this lesson, students will begin to understand explore the Anishinaabe Worldview, history, and culture through three distinct lessons from Knowledge Keepers and the Louis Riel School Di

Minecraft: Digital Citizenship

Minecraft: Social Emotional

Minecraft: Equity & Inclusion