Commonwealth games inquiry (Minecraft).

We've begun the term in ICT with a focus on the Commonwealth games for our inquiry topic.

After overhearing countless discussions from the students about their adventures on Minecraft I decided to see what all the fuss was about and try and turn this enthusiasm into a learning tool. Students have been creating event venues that mirror those at the games both from a technological and aesthetic viewpoint. The idea is that by the end of this unit they will have a sound understanding of how the games have evolved over time. Equipment and technology is one aspect that has changes to shape the games we enjoy today.

After a few minor hiccups, (an invasion of baddies 'creepers' and the like) we manages to take control of our world and make a start at building our impressive and accurate structures.

A couple of our worlds were accessed by uninvited users who tried to disrupt our building. These people are called Griefers. This provided a great teaching point on cyber safety.

A fabulous learning & teaching tool.

The children were given their Learning Intention: To create an arena for your favourite Commonwealth Games event venue using Minecraft.

Each child chose their sport and group members. I assigned each group a default "world", a "host" (i.e. a mature student leader familiar with minecraft) to manage several children's construction projects within the "world".

This world shows 5
distinct event venues.

The class was given a set of Success Criteria. And they were away.

View our videos and take a birds-eye tours of our progress so far

Looking at the school's blogs

We took a look at the school's blogs to find out what classes were doing.

With some questions to guide us we began to gather data that would help us form some conclusion statements  about our what was happening on line in our school.

Next we entered our data from our tally sheets into a spreadsheet and explored different ways of presenting our data.

 

Introducing Sienna, Simon and Suzanne

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Introducing Abel and Tait

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Introducing Alex and Amelia

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Introducing Eva and Fern

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Introducing Jakub and Jayda

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Introducing Joan and Kimberly

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Introducing Lucas and Mercedez

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Introducing Nesta and Paige

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Introducing Cameron and Dontayne

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Introducing Rhylie and Ria

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