Following on from the success of the Active Citizen Live Lessons in Term 1, Cyclone is excited to announce another two Live Lessons, this time focused on your students as creators of their own Minecraft lesson based on an event or person of their choosing. It is suitable for students in Years 5 - 10
The lessons will run from 9.30 - 11.00 on 21 June and 29 June
On the 21st of June, the first lesson will assist your students to pick an event or person in Aotearoa's history to research. They will be guided on what information they will require in order to make their Minecraft lesson as impactful as possible.
Then the attendees will get hands on in Minecraft Education Edition and learn about World Builder Mode. They will be shown how to create NPCs (non playing characters) and how to make them talk and offer options to the person playing their world.
Students will learn about:
- Deny and Allow blocks
- Structure blocks
- NPCs
- Commands that NPCs can issue
- How best to set their world up and build
Students will be given time to explore and test out these skills.
The students will then be given a week to research and start building their worlds.
On the 29th June, the second lesson will assist in focusing the students on the task. Any submitted questions over the week will be answered and ideas and worlds under construction will be shared.
The second lesson will introduce the students to their "Authentic Audience". All completed worlds will be loaded to a website to be shared with educators all over New Zealand. Students will be required to construct a basic lesson plan to load up with their world.
More hands on time will be allocated for students to carry on working on their History of Aotearoa world.
Q & A and more modelling will be provided to assist.
Students will be given training on how to submit the world and the lesson plan and given until end of week 1 Term 3 to complete their worlds.
The end goal will be a variety of Minecraft worlds available to NZ Schools, complete with lesson plans that assist teachers all over Aotearoa to integrate Minecraft into the Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum.
After registration, teachers will be sent a lesson pack with curriculum links, resources and tips on making the most of the Live lessons.
