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.”
A tutorial on finding map scale in MinecraftEDU.
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.
A project that includes MInecraftEDU, Civilization 5, and a portfolio/presentation.
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.
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)
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