Game & Learn Academic Camp or Club - Minecraft SocietyCraft
- Grades: 3-8
- Number of Students: Up to 20
- Additional Resources: Flyer
Highlights:
Participate in the creation of a collaborative, functioning Minecraft society in order to develop computer literacy, problem-solving, and teamwork skills.
Camp or Club Implementation
This course can be run as either a camp or a club. Both camps and clubs are facilitated by Mastery Coding certified instructors.
Clubs:
- Delivered across multiple weeks
- Can be run after school, during breaks, or on holidays
- Includes additional activities outside of live sessions
Camps:
- Delivered over the course of a week (3 days)
- 3-hour sessions
- No additional activities outside of live sessions
Curriculum or Lesson Topics:
Learning Objectives
- Students study the history of human societies and implement them into their gameplay to better understand cooperation and organization.
- Students learn new methods of overcoming challenges and displaying social awareness to become a better member of their in-game societies.
- Students discover the core fundamentals of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to create awesome builds and contraptions for their game.
Soft Skills
- Self Awareness: Students gradually recognize their own strengths, preferences, and values through their roles in SocietyCraft and translate this to the real world to develop themselves and later serve as an effective participant in a community.
- Self Management: Students improve their ability to recognize the emotions of others and themselves through in-game interactions, and thus form strategies for the real world to handle such emotions in a positive & constructive manner.
- Social Awareness: Students place themselves in the shoes of others who come from a myriad of backgrounds different from their society, and are able to act with empathy for others
- Responsible Decision Making: Students understand there being consequences for immoral actions, such as harming other player characters, and learn how to act accordingly based on ideas such as ethics, safety, and well-being of others
- Relationship Skills: Students build and maintain healthy relationships with other players through community, cooperation, trade, and peacefully resolving conflict
STEAM Connections
STEAM connections embedded in this program reinforce relevant science and math concepts to provide a well-rounded educational experience.
- Science: STEAM connections embedded in this program reinforce relevant science and math concepts to provide a well-rounded educational experience.
- Technology: Students learn the history of technology and how it affected societies in their times to better understand the potentials impacts of modern and future technologies on our current society
- Engineering: Students find out about the great feats of human engineering as well as the wonders of the world so that they can design & construct amazing structures within their own societies
- Art: Students understand forms of communication, creative expression, and cooperation so that they can create strong ties and a stable society
- Math: Students constantly perform simple arithmetic and calculations as they build, travel, and organize throughout the world
Technical Requirements:
- Minecraft Bedrock Edition
- Supported Devices: Windows 10, iOS and Android only
- Zoom Video Conferencing
- Reliable Internet connection
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