Monthly Museum Minecraft: Museums, Mummies, and Minecraft - Virtual

A minecraft screenshot showing a desert crossed by a blue river, pyramids, a giant ankh, and other Egyptian elements

Category

Virtual Lessons with ROM Educators

Duration

1 hour

Audience

Educators, Schools

Age

9-13

Grades

4-8

Subjects

Art & Culture, Canadian & World Studies, General, History, Indigenous, Language, Science, Science & Technology, Social Sciences & Humanities, Social Studies, The Arts

About this lesson

Dig up the real story about pyramids, pharaohs, and mummies with the ROM Minecraft team.

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‘Tis the season for spooky and scary stories. Lots of tales you may hear around this time feature mummies – but do they get the story right?

Join our educators as we explore a miniature version of Ancient Egypt in Minecraft, and use virtual re-creations of the Galleries of Africa: Egypt at ROM to uncover the truth.  We’ll explore what daily life was like in Ancient Egypt, learn how pyramids were built, and learn the stories of some famous pharaohs. Finally, we’ll learn more about Egyptian mummies, and discover that there’s really nothing scary about them at all!

Once we know the real stories, we’ll learn how to build them in our Minecraft world, and use the Minecraft book and quill to record and save them for the entire school year.

Can’t attend live? No problem! In this special YouTube Live Format, you’ll be able to pause and play the lesson to go at the pace that’s right for your students. If you can’t attend live, you can still follow along with the recording through the links you’ll receive when you book.

 

Delivery LanguageThis lesson is offered in English only
FormatVirtual Lesson 
Duration1 hour 
PricingFree
Minimum Group n/a
Maximum GroupUnlimited

Available Dates

Learning Goals

Explore daily life in Ancient Egypt.

Deconstruct stereotypes around the concept of Egyptian burial practice and build empathy and understanding.

Demonstrate learning through building in Minecraft and recording ideas with the Minecraft book and quill

Use code to facilitate large-scale building of shapes like pyramids.

French Classes

While the virtual lessons only offered in English for now, you can follow this tutorial to translate the game language into French. We hope to be able to offer French versions of the virtual lessons and bring a fully localized version of the world online in the near future.

Preparation

Preparation:

Students should be comfortable with the basics of Minecraft, including movement and the breaking and placing of blocks. If you wish your students to use code to build a pyramid (optional), we also recommend doing a few code builder tutorial worlds leading up to this session.

New to Minecraft?

We recommend that students are familiar with the basic Minecraft controls taught in the How to Play tutorials in the Minecraft Lesson Library, particularly:

You can also check out our New to Minecraft section on our Minecraft Program Support site.

Requirements

Class set of devices with Minecraft Education installed. 

Minecraft Licenses are not provided by ROM. They must be provided by your school or board, or through the Camps and Clubs program for homeschool or other educators

Supporting Materials

Target Classes

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