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minecraftinschool log in help Get a free wiki | Try our free business product Wiki Pages & Files View Edit To edit this page, request access to the workspace. Already have an account? Log in ! FrontPage Page history last edited by Lucas Gillispie 2 years, 7 months ago Welcome to the Minecraft in School Wiki! This wiki is devoted to hosting ideas, lessons, implementation strategies and more related to using the game, Minecraft in a school setting Whether you use it in a computer/gaming club, as part of your regular curricular instruction, or even at home with your own children, Minecraft's simple yet scalable "sandbox" virtual environment can be an excellent tool for engaging student learning. The open-ended nature of the game lends it to application in a variety of subject areas. Game-based learning, virtual worlds, and simulations are emerging tools for reaching our learners. That's why this wiki was created. Are you an educator who also plays Minecraft? Perhaps you're considering using the game in your school or district. Do you have ideas about how Minecraft could enrich your teaching while providing a fun and exciting game world for your students? Then join us and share those ideas! This is an opportunity for crowd-sourced lesson building! - Lucas Gillispie , Director of Academic and Digital Learning, Surry County Schools. Recent News (6/30/17) - Here's an updated Minecraft Survival Challenge (version 2.0) - It's been updated with new quests and all-game-based Community Challenges! New Mini Games Castle Wars - A TNT-Cannon, Team-based challenge. (world download link inside) The Driving Range - A TNT-Cannon range game designed to teach the basics of cannon design. (world download link inside) (11/10/15) - Here's a Sustainable Community Project we're working on at Gentry Middle School. It focuses on sustainable, green building in different regions of North Carolina. (6/1/15) -Alice Keeler ( @alicekeeler ) is awesome, but you knew that, right? She has taken my Minecraft Survival Challenge and has created this amazing, interactive spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wV95txxZeRvDrlUlgrpOe5VBHyxJMsHiIKQ9ybqhLTs/copy (this link will prompt you to make your own copy). (2/11/13) - Major updates to the Hosting Your Own Server page and the Accounts and Account Management page to reflect the current status of the project and to provide more detailed tips for other schools who wish to get involved. (12/18/13) - Great tutorial video on how to level in mcMMO by Aidan. Check it out! (12/8/13) - Lots to share! First off, this month, we launch our first Community Challenge created by one of our student miners, Countdown to MineChristmas . This project, developed by Hayate12, celebrates the holidays with an Advent-styled challenge to rebuild Santa's village, with new components added daily. We have a number of tutorials added by our community in recent weeks: Minecrafter, Wandser, shares this tutorial on how to utilize hoppers: Minecrafter deerhunter0 has shared a brief guide on how to invert redstone and use it to create a lamp that will turn on at night with a daylight sensor: Inverted Restone (11/15/13) - Our elementary learners will be participating in the Minecraft City Construction Challenge as they learn about urban, suburban, and rural regions. Ideally, this experience would allow them to discuss and handle the city zoning, but since their time is so limited, that was set up ahead of time. Should be exciting to see what they create! (11/3/13) - Our November event has launched! Redstonia! Details are here - http://goo.gl/8AJIZu (10/18/13) - One of our awesome Minecrafters created this great video showing off our survival world: (10/2/13) - Gillispie - So, Minecraft is rocketing in Pender County Schools! More schools are getting involved. Topsail Middle just launched their Minecraft club, initially, a fully online club, and it's booming! Welcome to all of the new faces! We also launched our first monthly server event last night, The Town of Deadwood! The Town of Deadwood is a community build event in which all players are invited to assist in the building of a haunted (and deserted) town (in the spirit of Halloween). It should be exciting! Want to see our announcement flyer? You can find it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Ry36DMAIarAKirE-3UECM6tCmDfubZ6s9Seu8r-iPk/edit . I can't wait to see what they create! (10/1/13) - Gillispie - This year, our Survival server has had a makeover. We've relaunched it with some exciting new changes. First off, though Towny was a fun plugin, the majority of players seemed to want to go back to a more "vanilla" survival experience. So, this year, we launched a brand new world with a great seed ( link here ). We created a brand new server ranking system and are actively exploring ways to gamify (and learn-ify) the experience. We've added the MCMMO plugin that lets players "level up" skills like mining, archery, etc., and have implemented a new "Guide" program in which students can be nominated by a teacher to be a server Guide, indicated that they are "helpers" for new players. My amazing build team from Pender Early College High has been providing great assistance in building our server spawn area, a town called SpringHaven (pictured below). Our biggest goal this year? Building community! To that end, we're planning monthly events including contests and community builds. It should be exciting! (8/1/13) - Gillispie - Here's a link to The Minecraft Survival Quest Challenge -a series of challenges, gamified, for players on a survival server - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qP88dNh9ESz0K4Tkej2A1rt3xPkEWvywB5VNzYIQ1FQ/edit?usp=sharing (7/23/13) - Gillispie - Handy crafting guide for those just getting started out in Survival Mode - http://deathdigger.free.fr/Crafting.pdf (6/2/13) - Gillispie - Exciting to be sharing our students' creations at the e-Virtuoses serious games conference in Valenciennes, France this week! (1/7/13) - Gillispie - Looking for an interesting way to integrate the fun of Minecraft with learning about elements from the periodic table? What if you could create items, in-game, with those elements? Sara Toothman has created a great lesson that encourages students to imagine! Get it here - Elemental Minecraft.pdf . (1/3/13) - Gillispie - If you haven't seen Sara Toothman's video of her students' creations in Minecraft in the Fall, check it out! (11/20/12) - Gillispie - Added more information to our Bukkit Plugins Page about the plugins we're using on our Creative and Survival Servers. (10/4/12) - Gillispie - Added a section for Sara Toothman's resources for Minecraft! - Sara Toothman's Awesome Minecraft Resources (6/19/12) - Gillispie - Added a Cost and Budget page to assist with budgeting for your own education-related projects. Updated Hosting Your Own Server with more resources and added a Bukkit and Plugins page to share information about the plugins we're currently using on our Bukkit servers in PCS. (6/13/12) - Gillispie - Creativity begets creativity... So, our Minecraft projects are spawning new, creative game-based learning projects in our schools! Take a look at Sara Toothman's Kickstarter project to bring more game-based learning to her students at West Pender Middle School! While you're at it, why not pledge $5 to make it happen? (4/24/2012) - Gillispie - Here's a video showing off some student and teacher creations: (4/2/2012) - Gillispie - In addition to our first Minecraft explorers, Minecraft projects are now underway at Burgaw Middle School , Pender Early College High School, and soon Heidi Trask High and Cape Fear Middle School. Exciting times! (1/25/12) - Gillispie - So much going on since my last update. So, here's what's new: PCS Minecraft Grants Pender County Schools offered its teachers the opportunity to apply for a Minecraft grant which would cover 25 student licenses to the game. Teachers simply had to explain how they'd use the game and connect it w...