Using Minecraft as a Virtual Reality tool in the Classroom
VR in the Classroom
Content Centered, Standards Driven
Hello educators. Are you searching for a resource to help explain the application of Minecraft education as a Virtual Reality tool? Then you have come to the right place. This site is made by an educator, myself, for educators interested in utilizing Minecraft as a virtual reality instrument to represent content in real-world situations. I have spent the last ten years teaching middle school and have implemented Minecraft to represent content that can be taken as a formative grade whether the student is or is not familiar with the program.
On this site, I have created two online learning courses, or Leaning Paths, for any educator, administrator, or parent who would like to know how to create standards-based lessons for Minecraft education lessons that can be applied to any grade level k-12. The methods I teach require time; learning the Minecraft Education program and other third-party programs is needed to make the creation process more efficient.
The feedback from students and other teachers has been overwhelmingly positive. Even if you have no idea how to operate Minecraft Education, please check out my pre-made lessons on Microsoft Learn.
Learning and Resource Center
– Learning Path –
How to Make a Simulation
This Learning Path explains the various tools, resources, and frameworks needed to create a simulation of content in Minecraft Education.
– Learning Path –
Building Challenge
This Learning Path lays out how to create a building challenge. Start with Fun building challenges to become comfortable with students working on the building process, then move on to the assigned challenges.
– Building Plates –
Looking for a building plates that multipule classes and use? Click below to see if these are what you are looking for.
Blog-Current Happenings
7th grade Absolute Value: Deep Sea Rescue!!
Students are part of a rescue operation to save scientists in an observatory at the bottom of the ocean. They must speak with NPCs and decern how best to calculate distance underwater relative to absolute value.
6th Grade Minecraft Lesson: Box and whisker, and Histogram to Agriculture and Price
This 6th grade lesson focused on applying Box plots to an agriculture setting, and transportation setting. Car prices are also presented in the form of Historgams.
7th Grade Minecraft Lesson: Volume of Composite Shapes
7th grade students were
6th grade: A Mean presentation of Central Tendencies in Learning Mode.
This 6th Grade lesson covered Mean Median Mode and Range. Students enjoyed this lesson, and I really enjoyed making it. The use of Amulet was, as usual, key to finishing in the amount of time I spent on making this world.
Disastrous Miscalculations
Not a good day in Minecraft Club. Students started a little war leaving two builds destroyed and two weeks worth of work gone. I learned some good lessons here, and am now a little wiser. Being proactive is a must.