Tag Archives: minecraft

Minecraft Education Sectors of Industry Project Rubric

February 25, 2018minecrafteconomic sectors, economics, Geography 6, minecraft, Minecraft Education, PBL, primary sector, private sector, project-based learning, public sector, secondary sector, sectors of industry, sectors of the economy, tertiary sector, voluntary sectorPaul

I wrote this rubric to evaluate projects on the sectors of industry and the economy in Minecraft Education.

Minecraft Map Montage from the Dothan Education Showcase 2016

The video is a montage of student work in MinecraftEDU. The students are building twenty raised-relief maps in small groups. The video begins with a 3D print of France in September 2015 and continues through January 2016. They have done some extraordinary work.

Alabama Seventh Grade Geography Standard 1: “Describe the world in spatial terms using maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies.”

WDHN Features MinecraftEDU at Carver

November 15, 2015mincrafteduCarver Magnet School, Jessalyn Adams, minecraft, minecraftedu, Nations Project, WDHNPaul

Thanks for joining us at Carver! We will be presenting the raised-relief maps built for The Nations Project at Wiregrass Commons Mall for the Education Showcase on February 4th, 2016.

Adding Elevation to the Alabama Raised Relief Map in Minecraft

How to Make an Outline Map for Minecraft or MinecraftEDU

How to Make an Outline Map for Minecraft

The Plague Map Project

May 10, 2015geography, mincrafteducross-curricular, epidemiology, geography, history, imovie, ipad, minecraft, minecraftedu, PBL, plagues, project-based learning, science, social studiesPaul

Students build maps of historic plague outbreaks in MinecraftEDU and make mini-documentaries using iMovie on the iPad in the Plague Map Project.

I developed this project in collaboration with Cynthia Fogleman and Wanda Richards from the Carver Magnet School Science Department. The rubric represents the social studies side of the project.

Plague Map Project

How to Use Creative Mode in Minecraft

The “Minecraft in Geography” Presentation from HSTW14

July 18, 2014geography, hstw14, minecraft3D, geography, hstw14, map skills, maps, mcedit, minecraft, minecraftedu, spritecraft, video gamesPaul

I presented on Minecraft in Geography at the High Schools that Work Conference in Nashville, Tennessee on July 18, 2014. Many of the resources mentioned are linked on my Minecraft page. The software discussed includes MinecraftEdu, Spritecraft, and MCEdit. The presentation (with all those detailed instructions for you or your technophile students) is linked below in Acrobat (.pdf) format. Contact me (Twitter, Skype, or email) if you need help, have questions, or want to share success stories.

Minecraft in Geography Shared Version — .pdf (Adobe Acrobat)

Paul Blankenship

Instructional Design Product Owner, Former Teacher