Museum Minecraft: Sustainable Style - Guided Virtual or Self-Guided Virtual

A Minecraft screenshot of a sunken cargo ship with fish swimming around crane arms and broken cargo containers

Category

Virtual Lessons with ROM Educators

Duration

1 hour

Audience

Educators, Schools

Age

7-18

Grades

3-12

Subjects

Art & Culture, General, Indigenous, Science, Science & Technology, Social Sciences & Humanities, Social Studies, The Arts

About this lesson

Use the power of Minecraft to transform a community into a more sustainable place to live.

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Museum Minecraft worlds are immersive programs that allow your class to experience a thorough exploration of a topic using the immersive and engaging platform of Minecraft Education.

In Museum Minecraft: Sustainable Style, your students find themselves trapped on a sunken ship escape room. The clues to their escape lie in a virtual re-creation of the Noelle Hamlyn: Lifers exhibition and other galleries at ROM, where they will discover climate change and sustainability problems and solutions that will unlock the doors to freedom. Along the way, they will need to use code to instruct their friendly Minecraft agent to help them clear a path to the next stage of the escape room.  In Phase 2, students will teleport back to their hometown, where they can participate in a series of activities of your choosing to deepen their climate change and sustainability knowledge before the culminating activity: to transform the town school (or the entire community – your choice!) to be a more sustainable place to live.

While you can participate in this lesson at a self-guided pace any time, anywhere, you can also opt for the additional support of a live virtual lesson. Live lessons to introduce and support each phase of the program run monthly and are streamed to YouTube, where students and teachers can interact with the Minecraft instructor through an interactive form. Additional asynchronous 1:1 technical support is also available if you need an extra helping hand.

Can’t attend live? No problem! In our 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 link you’ll receive when you book.

 

Delivery Language

Virtual - English only

Self-Guided - Any language

FormatVirtual Lesson 
Duration1 hour
PricingFree
Minimum Group n/a
Maximum GroupUnlimited

 

Phase 1 Virtual lesson

The Phase 1 Virtual lesson should be done at the start of the program. It will introduce students to the Minecraft world and provide basic instruction on how to navigate through the world. Together, the instructor and your students will explore the first part of the underwater escape room, learning how to use the virtual galleries to find clues and the book and quill to record what they learn.

Phase 2 Virtual Lesson

The Phase 2 lessons should be done 2-4 weeks later, when your students are just about finished the escape room. In the first half of the lesson we’ll review key points students should have learned about climate change and sustainability during the escape room. We’ll explore how students can find the activities you assign them, and look at just a few examples of Minecraft tricks students can use to bring their ideas to life for the culminating Sustainable School/Sustainable Community activity.

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Learning Goals

Explore how modern practices, with an emphasis on fast fashion, impact the physical and biological environments.

Understand that the burning of fossil fuel is a key driver of current changes in global climate.

Understand how some Indigenous ways of knowing provide sustainable solutions to some of these problems.

Demonstrate student learning by using Minecraft to rebuild a school or town into a more sustainable place to learn or live.

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.

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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