Planning a Simulation Lesson Using a Template

Below are guided instructions to curate your lessons in a virtual environment using Minecraft Education.

Question Framework and Format

When making lesson questions, it’s best to require the student to pull information from both the worksheet you are creating and the virtual environment they are working in.

 

Example #1

In the Central Tendency lesson, the first set of questions students were required to answer are displayed in the images below. 

 

Interact with signs

in the first section of the lesson, students interacted with the signs to determine the solution to the problems.

search and find questions

In this section, students had to engage with multiple NPCs to collect the information needed to solve the problem.

Example #2

Below are two examples of question framework and formatting for the Scientific notation lesson.

Build upon prior knowledge:

In this lesson, students started by activating prior knowledge by first converting from standard to scientific notation. Then would answer questions using the conversation that has just been completed.

Multistep Problems:

Here each question is fully contained within the dialogue box of the NPC, not requiring any information from the worksheet.