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Lesson Creation in Minecraft: Education Edition Planning

1) The document discusses how to plan and create educational lessons using Minecraft: Education Edition. It recommends planning the skills, narrative, and game elements in advance. 2) Specific details are provided about setting up a world for a lesson on expressions and equations involving geocaching around a village. This includes setting the spawn point and fixed inventory items. 3) Narrative elements like NPCs can be added using commands to provide dialogue and clues. Build challenges are placed around the village like parkour, mobs, puzzles in different caches. Time and weather commands are also covered.

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Lesson Creation in Minecraft: Education Edition Planning

1) The document discusses how to plan and create educational lessons using Minecraft: Education Edition. It recommends planning the skills, narrative, and game elements in advance. 2) Specific details are provided about setting up a world for a lesson on expressions and equations involving geocaching around a village. This includes setting the spawn point and fixed inventory items. 3) Narrative elements like NPCs can be added using commands to provide dialogue and clues. Build challenges are placed around the village like parkour, mobs, puzzles in different caches. Time and weather commands are also covered.

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Lesson Creation in Minecraft: Education Edition

Mark Grundel

Planning
Prior to working in Minecraft Education Edition, it is essential to plan out your lesson. This is an excellent
step to model for students, or at least share your planning phase with students and colleagues. I use a blank
sheet of paper, but you may choose to use a graphic organizer. In the planning phase I determined the
mathematics skills that I wanted my students to work on, a general narrative for back story, and what game
elements I wanted to include.

For the Geocaching Lesson I chose OA.1 and OA.2 - which pertain to expressions, equations, and order of
operations. The back story is that a wizard attacks a village and caches some valuable items around the
village. I wanted to include some combat and parkour as challenging game-like elements. It is also an
excellent idea to plan out some items you may want to use to build with, as well as what items you want
your audience to have access to.

World Setup
1. Decide what type of world would best fit your purposes, flat or infinite. In order to access flat or
infinite you must go into Advanced Settings. Generate your world by hitting the Create World!
Button.
2. Decide between Creative and Survival Mode. I knew I wanted my story to take place near a village so
I entered creative mode using the slash command: /gamemode c @p. Creative mode offers the
advantage of unlimited resources, no hunger or damage, and the ability to fly, which can be
accessed by double tapping the space bar.
3. Make use of potions to quickly build. From there I gave myself a speed potion to quickly fly around
and look for a village. I did this by going into my inventory (E) and clicking on the seeds
(Miscellaneous) and scrolling down to the light blue potion, the Potion of Swiftness. While not
necessary, the potion allowed me to find the village and perfect spawn point more quickly.

4. Determine your world spawn point. Once I arrived at the edge of a village I set my spawn point using
the slash command: /setworldspawn ~ ~ ~. The tilde (~) is your current location. Each tilde represents
your location on one coordinate in 3 dimensional geometry, your X, Y, and Z. This command
guarantees that all players entering this world will spawn, or start, at this location
5. Set your inventory. I determined that I wanted all players entering my game to start with some items,
which they could never loose. Minecraft Education Edition has a unique feature of a fixed inventory,
which all players will start with upon entering the world. In total, there are three fixed inventory slots
which can be accessed through the touch screen or mouse wheel. To set the fixed inventory, use the
slash command: /setfixedinvslot followed by the slot number and item. To put an empty map in slot
1 by doing: /setfixedinvslot 1 emptymap. I did the same for my camera and portfolio. Below is a
picture of setting the camera in the second fixed inventory slot.

Narratives Using NPCs


1. Minecraft Education Edition offers a highly engaging and interactive way to include narrative in your
game or adventure, using NPCs or Non-Player Characters. Notice the NPC in the above picture,
Atreyu. This character can be summoned by WorldBuilders. Turn on Worldbuilder by using the
following slash command: /ability @p worldbuilder true. Being a Worldbuilder allows you to use
additional game features, such as Allow, Deny, and Border Blocks, in addition to NPCs.
2. Summon an NPC. Use the following command: /summon NPC ~ ~ ~2. This will summon an NPC 2
blocks in front of you. You can now edit your NPC for dialogue. I also use the Learn More button to
link a hyper link either to an additional resource of collaborative document. See the difference when
right clicking on an NPC when Worldbuilder is set to True or False.

Build Your World


This is the really fun part. As the teacher and game designer you can determine what you want your
students to accomplish. Where do you want them to go? Will there be false clues. You are only limited by
your creativity. Be sure to include additional narrative devices along the way, such as more NPCs or boards.
Be sure to include your game elements, such as parkour, enemies (hostile mobs), or Redstone Challenges.

For my geocaching lesson I placed three caches strategically around the village, each with its own
challenge. The first cache was hidden in the forest nearby and players may need to fight through some
spiders or other mobs. The second cache was hidden underground and gave an indicator to the next clue.
Notice from the picture below that I used a giant slate board to lead my adventures on to the next cache.

As you build, it may become dark or rainy, two conditions that are not ideal for building. To set the time
back to day use the following command: /time set day and to make the weather clear type: /weather clear.

Happy Building!

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