Latest Minecraft Mission

Walt: Collaborate and use the school values within Minecraft to create an online community.

Success Criteria - We will know we have achieved this when we have used our school values to create an online community/city that reflects these.

Goals:

1. Create a working city
2. Build my dream house
3. Build a place of work - e.g. - If you want to be a Vet build a Vet Clinic
4. Create a set of laws that each citizen/class member must abide by (these are to be written in a book in the city library).

We are using the chat function within Minecraft to collaborate, plan and create together.
Things to consider: Signs, roads, rivers, footpaths, trees, parks, schools


How we did this:

• P3 used the chat to discuss where they wanted to have a city, they discussed mainly the type of land (they wanted to be surrounded by lush green grass) and the location (they wanted it to be in a corner of the large map so no other classes would be able to grief buildings on our server).
• Dylan (our Minecraft expert) used a mod that he had to flatten a large area for the class to use for our city.
• Some of the other boys then took turns helping people to get to the city by giving explicit instructions of where to meet and then leading the way.

The beginning of the cities roads

Street Lights

An Ice Rink

Inside Ash's home

A Blacksmith -Ash's places of work

Antonio's Lounge - A TV surrounded by books - Sounds like heaven

The front of Antonio's and Zac's house

Natalya's House - Very colourful carpet

The start of the river that will run through the city

Manaia's house 

Roads complete with give-way lines and stop signs

We have been working on this for 30 minutes of class time in our PB4L slot and the students have been working on it before school and during their lunchtimes. 

I will keep you updated on how our city turns out!

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Students have just finished reflecting on our previous Minecraft mission: The City of Ember

I am so pleased with how in depth some of their reflections are.

Natalya's Reflection

Kayleigh;s Reflection

Aaron 'Wheels' Fotheringham: The Story

Brain Break/PB4L Lesson:

This great clip provided an awesome class discussion on our school values (Respect, Relationships, Honesty & Learning). 

We have discussed as a class that they think that brain breaks using inspiring videos would improve their motivation and drive to try new things and further their own learning.  

Activity:

I had my class rule one of their pages into 4 squares.

We watched the clip and I had my class record down as many examples of the values they could spot (they have had practice with this before with 'The Croods').

Students then went onto their blogs and began to share their examples, this fostered a lot of classroom discussion and sharing of the values they saw.

Students will now find their own motivating or inspiring clip to share. 

Watch this space for the clips they bring in and their posts!