I'm a Microsoft Innovative Educator Fellow, Apple Distinguished Educator (Past Advisory Board Member), Global Minecraft Mentor, published education researcher, Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Teaching STEM for 2018 and 2019 recipient, New Brunswick Minister's Excellence in Education Award 2018 recipient and 2017 Inspirational STEM Teacher of the Year in New Brunswick, Canada. I started the country's first K-12 Dronography program and my students work daily with cutting-edge tech like the Microsoft HoloLens, Surface Studio, Apple iPad Pros and Minecraft Education Edition. In 2017 my government named me (The first teacher) an official New Brunswick Innovator! https://nbinnovators.ca/innovator-stories/
Here is my growing collection of 30+ official project resources for MinecraftEDU so far. If you use any and find success please let me know: @BBTNB
ARCTIC ADVENTURE - Take a majestic and educational dogsled tour through the Arctic with video and NPC support. Learn about pana knives used to build igloos, Arctic Careers, real gold and diamond mines, glacier melt and the military rush for land claims in the Arctic. This and more!
Teacher Video Walkthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynGVA0w6PdI&feature=youtu.be
Teacher Video Walkthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynGVA0w6PdI&feature=youtu.be
| arcticadventurebbtnbv2.mcworld |
Chamber 9: Using Chemistry to aid Empathy your students will save stranded cave explorers using the actual geographic location of the Thailand cave where the true story happened. Students will individually craft THREE chemistry solutions to aid in the rescue of the trapped explorers and bring out evidence of their well-being and their names for the media and families. Making the cave safer for future rescues is the goal of each of your heroic students.
Intended for grades 4-8 roughly.
Video walkthrough for teachers: https://youtu.be/HeRoNNVz710
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site: Coming:
World file download below:
Intended for grades 4-8 roughly.
Video walkthrough for teachers: https://youtu.be/HeRoNNVz710
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site: Coming:
World file download below:
Use with Minecraft Education Edition 1.7 or newer
| chamber_9_by_bbtnb.mcworld |
MinecraftEDU Mentor Market! This resource is a Minecraft Education Edition world file featuring an Arabian City where 30 Global Minecraft Mentors have set up booths to share their resources, tips and tricks directly from within the game we love so much!
An innovative and engaging way to learn something new from fellow teachers. Download the world and explore today!
Download Below:
An innovative and engaging way to learn something new from fellow teachers. Download the world and explore today!
Download Below:
| mentormarket2018.mcworld |
Aquanaut Aquarius - Hurricane Irma badly damaged Aquarius Habitat I and your class of students will learn about AH1 while collaborative building a much larger Aquarius Habitat II for 30 divers and Florida International University. The Medina Aquarius Habitat Program remains the World's only underwater lab. But your students will work to build a better lab in Minecraft Education Edition that can hold 30 divers just 20 meters (60 feet) below the surface in the Florida Keys.
Students will learn from NPCs based on real ocean heroes and be presented valuable info. They can make a short dive to AH1 and go up inside to get inspired.
** Use this as a follow up experience to a live chat with the Aquarius team on Skype Field Trips! Talk to the team and then check understand while supporting 21st century skill development in the classroom!
WORLD FILE DOWNLOAD: Download Here Now!
VIDEO WALKTHROUGH: Watch It Here Now
Real Resource on the Minecraft Education Site (Coming Soon)
Students will learn from NPCs based on real ocean heroes and be presented valuable info. They can make a short dive to AH1 and go up inside to get inspired.
** Use this as a follow up experience to a live chat with the Aquarius team on Skype Field Trips! Talk to the team and then check understand while supporting 21st century skill development in the classroom!
WORLD FILE DOWNLOAD: Download Here Now!
VIDEO WALKTHROUGH: Watch It Here Now
Real Resource on the Minecraft Education Site (Coming Soon)
NASA and Roscosmos of Russia are teaming up with other nations to create a Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway or LOP-G and this is an ideal time for our students to learn about the Moon! Lunar celebrities such as Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Roberta Bondar, Col. Hadfield and more introduce everything from Lunar Ethics and how we handle the Moon to creative designs of the needed structures and transportation of tomorrow. SIX stations guide students through Moon related issues and by the end, when they graduate the Moon Base Beta program they will be far more knowledgeable about our Moon. Try it today!
Video Walkthrough Here
Resource on the Minecraft Education Site CLICK HERE
Download the world file here including Moon Base Beta!
Video Walkthrough Here
Resource on the Minecraft Education Site CLICK HERE
Download the world file here including Moon Base Beta!
| mooncraft2-bbtnb.mcworld |
The Mars Pack is a series of actual 1.6km by 1.6km terrains from Mars itself scanned with the Mars Research Orbiter. The pack shares these key locations so that students can explore as a class martian landscapes accurate to within one meter. Thanks to MineGage who helped me get the work into a usable format for Minecraft Education Edition. The Mars Generation can start exploring real Mars geography within the engaging realm of Minecraft Education Edition and I couldn't be happier to be the one to make this happen! Enjoy!
Resource on the office Minecraft Education Site - Coming Soon
Link to all of the Martian Terrain Minecraft Education Worlds
Resource on the office Minecraft Education Site - Coming Soon
Link to all of the Martian Terrain Minecraft Education Worlds
Build Battle EDU - This world consists of 6 battle stations 32x32 in size (2-5 students) which is ideal for mixed reality output using Structure Blocks. It also has four 62x62 Platforms for larger team builds (6-10 students) and with no height restriction. Teacher navigation is made incredibly east with buttons that teleport instantly to all key locations and more that change day to night and back again for indicating time for students. Students begin in Survival Mode, Teleport into their team's build site and then find a button which switches them to creative mode. All students are trapped inside the build area and in the battle stations they are unable to see the other teams' builds making this truly the ideal Build Battle setup. Roman emperors? New animals for given conditions? Mars transport or dwellings? You pick the curriculum topic and have the students compete in friendly competition as they demonstrate their understanding of that key topic through building. Art, STEM, History and literacy courses can all use this world at some point. Enjoy!
Resource on Minecraft Education Official Site - Coming Soon!
Resource on Minecraft Education Official Site - Coming Soon!
| buildbattleedu.mcworld |
Vimy Ridge Resource - Open Map Data - Two adventures are possible with this resource that is built on the actual terrain using NASA Open Data. This make the world file alone priceless for any project involving Vimy Ridge. Build a tribute like no other "The Canadian National Memorial" or create the 1917 war environment on the ridge as a class.
Video Walkthrough for Teachers
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
World file for download below:
Video Walkthrough for Teachers
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
World file for download below:
| vimyridgebbtnb.mcworld |
Angler Arithmetic - Teach mathematical concepts from adding to algebra using a friendly annual fishing competition between Red and White teams. Each year the world's best fishermen (Your students) flock to the sleepy town and compete in a 2 or 3 Minecraft Day fishing contest. After this your class is primed and ready to talk mathematics using the very fish they just caught!
Video Walkthrough for Teachers
Resource on MinecraftEDU Site
World File can be downloaded below:
Video Walkthrough for Teachers
Resource on MinecraftEDU Site
World File can be downloaded below:
| anglerarithmetic.mcworld |
The Dragon Realm is an Epic Empathy EDventure that allows a full class to participate in a common experience that leads to better individual writing or class collaborative writing products. This project comes complete with video walk through for teachers and a .MCWORLD file too! Three beautiful kingdoms make this a lesson sure to engage. Crafter is Andrew Skrimshire.
Video Walk Through for Teachers
Resource on Minecraft Education Site
World File: Can be downloaded below
Video Walk Through for Teachers
Resource on Minecraft Education Site
World File: Can be downloaded below
| dragonrealmmcee.mcworld |
MHL Winter Classic asks students to convert Madrid Spain's majestic soccer field into an EPIC outdoor hockey rink for the MHL's first European game between the Mooshrooms and Blaze! NPCs help with advice and supporting media as students work to convert awesome into special!
Shout out to Robin and Wesley from PreFXDesigns in Belgium for building an EPIC stadium for their favourite team Real Madrid!
Resource on Minecraft Education Site
Video Walkthrough: Coming soon
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
Shout out to Robin and Wesley from PreFXDesigns in Belgium for building an EPIC stadium for their favourite team Real Madrid!
Resource on Minecraft Education Site
Video Walkthrough: Coming soon
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| mhlwinterclassic.mcworld |
The 2020 Minecraftia Masters Ender Pearl Golf Championship is fast approaching and your students are needed to design every aspect of the 9 or 18 hole course. The best part of this project is after students use creativity and critical thinking to build an entire course they get to PLAY! This course has a video to support teachers and a .MCWORLD file ready to go! Please share your student created .MCWORLD courses online when done!
Video support for teachers
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
World File: Download below or choose your own
Video support for teachers
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
World File: Download below or choose your own
| minecraftia_masters_2020_golf.mcworld |
The Fire Escape is my project that allows students to practice creating a fire escape route for a demo Smart Home. Once they complete the fire escape plan alone or in pairs they are encouraged to create a plan for their families. Critical thinking, communication and project-based learning come to mind when I think about the potential for this life lesson with a focus on student and community health and safety. There is a .MCWORLD file for this project that include the lesson and the demo house.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD file below:
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD file below:
| thefireescape.mcworld |
MinecraftEDU Cribs features an entire neighbourhood with beautiful homes exterior wise but empty shells interior wise. Each student gets to move into a house in the neighbourhood and make alterations, additions and replacements as they try to maximize their property value for resale. They consider location, bedrooms, basements, parking, schools, and neighbour's properties as they set their asking price and justify it to the home buyer (Their Teacher) using 10 pieces of evidence to support their asking price. .MCWORLD file and video walk through are available for this powerful experience in property value and real estate education!
Video Walk Through for Teachers
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD FILE: Download Below
Video Walk Through for Teachers
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD FILE: Download Below
| minecraftedu_cribs.mcworld |
Island Innovation allows students to explore the engineering marvels of Dubai and try their hand at designing islands in creative patterns for human inhabitants on the ocean. It comes with a .MCWORLD file offering ample shoreline and an inspirational starting video to get the class on the same page before building.
Inspirational Starting Video
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
Inspirational Starting Video
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| islandinnovationbbtnb.mcworld |
The Mars Generation
Coexist and thrive on the surface of Mars in a BioDome that has limited supplies and demands creativity, communication and critical thinking for survival. This is sure to satisfy many space and science outcomes.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download below
Coexist and thrive on the surface of Mars in a BioDome that has limited supplies and demands creativity, communication and critical thinking for survival. This is sure to satisfy many space and science outcomes.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download below
| themarsgeneration.mcworld |
Climate City 2020
Students work together to turn an oil dependent city (complete with oil rigs) into an alternative energy world leader. Supported by informative mini-videos on alternative energy types this lesson allows students to change their current realities into the ideal realities of the future and today!
Video Tour of the Climate City for Teachers
Lesson and Support videos on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
Students work together to turn an oil dependent city (complete with oil rigs) into an alternative energy world leader. Supported by informative mini-videos on alternative energy types this lesson allows students to change their current realities into the ideal realities of the future and today!
Video Tour of the Climate City for Teachers
Lesson and Support videos on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| climatecity2020final.mcworld |
The Client
Students develop character skills while remedying a botched build by Creeper Contractors. Students work for Herobrine Hardware called in to help. The family is difficult to deal with but it teaches students that not everyone in their future dealings will be a treat to work with and for. It does this however in a safe and toned-down manner allowing for great class discussion.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
Students develop character skills while remedying a botched build by Creeper Contractors. Students work for Herobrine Hardware called in to help. The family is difficult to deal with but it teaches students that not everyone in their future dealings will be a treat to work with and for. It does this however in a safe and toned-down manner allowing for great class discussion.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| theclient.mcworld |
Camp Minecraft places students in a perfect location to develop collaboratively their vision of an epic summer camp. Lakes, Mountains, Land + more! The lesson page hosts a real life camp in NY (I worked their 6 years) that will spark incredible student ideas of the best Summer camp ever!
Lesson and Example Camp on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
Lesson and Example Camp on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| campminecraft-bbtnb.mcworld |
Melody Lane
Students will study a series of Redstone & Note Block systems that play Indonesian melodies. They will then craft their own recognizable melody. Daft Punk, Taylor Swift and other hit melody writers motivate the students as NPCs.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
Students will study a series of Redstone & Note Block systems that play Indonesian melodies. They will then craft their own recognizable melody. Daft Punk, Taylor Swift and other hit melody writers motivate the students as NPCs.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| melodylane.mcworld |
TimeCraft - Ultimate History Class Review
7 Villages with coordinates allow students to build demonstrations of their understanding of a course or unit in history within an appropriate setting. The locations of each village in each setting are provided at world spawn allowing for teachers and students to quickly arrive at the appropriate site and begin building. Just think of a unit of history and the appropriate biome and setting are waiting for students to demonstrate their understanding of that time period.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
7 Villages with coordinates allow students to build demonstrations of their understanding of a course or unit in history within an appropriate setting. The locations of each village in each setting are provided at world spawn allowing for teachers and students to quickly arrive at the appropriate site and begin building. Just think of a unit of history and the appropriate biome and setting are waiting for students to demonstrate their understanding of that time period.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| timecraft.mcworld |
Pipe Dreams is a lesson that allows students to explore safe and responsible resource development and transportation. Students build an oil pipeline from one village to another considering safety, lifestyles, cost and landscape beauty. This is not only an Engineering challenge but a social responsibility experience. STEM and empathy are embedded into this lesson that is both engaging and relevant in North America and other parts of the world currently.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| pipedreams.mcworld |
Wonder World
The ancient world, the new wonders, the natural wonders or any of the Wonders of the World are brought to virtual life by students in "Wonder World" The Minecraft Education Lesson Page has video support for each of these World Wonder designations and the .MCWORLD file offer a vast variety to support the development of these student created diorama creations.
Lesson and Video Support on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
The ancient world, the new wonders, the natural wonders or any of the Wonders of the World are brought to virtual life by students in "Wonder World" The Minecraft Education Lesson Page has video support for each of these World Wonder designations and the .MCWORLD file offer a vast variety to support the development of these student created diorama creations.
Lesson and Video Support on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| wonderworld-bbtnb.mcworld |
Rock the Block!
Students use the provided world map to plan, design, transform and create a world class concert site that is safe and EPIC! Event Planning Project. The Lesson site holds an event planning checklist file as well as the lesson plan. Are you ready to rock?
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
Students use the provided world map to plan, design, transform and create a world class concert site that is safe and EPIC! Event Planning Project. The Lesson site holds an event planning checklist file as well as the lesson plan. Are you ready to rock?
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| rocktheblock.mcworld |
In The Zone
Students can experience developing a town using industrial, commercial and residential zones or tri-community governance (ex. Trash Collection Plan) This .MCWORLD file has 3 adjoining distinct communities that have to exist with each other daily. How teachers choose to use this ideal map is their choice but some suggestions are given!
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
Students can experience developing a town using industrial, commercial and residential zones or tri-community governance (ex. Trash Collection Plan) This .MCWORLD file has 3 adjoining distinct communities that have to exist with each other daily. How teachers choose to use this ideal map is their choice but some suggestions are given!
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| inthezoneworld.mcworld |
Epic Eukaryotes
Students treat two villages like animal and plant cells and name locations after organelles based on function and properties. Students name buildings in the town according to real buildings in real towns and then state how they relate to an organelle in the cell. An example would be the "Mitochondria Power Company" or the "Vacuole Food Bank" etc....
Lesson on the Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
Students treat two villages like animal and plant cells and name locations after organelles based on function and properties. Students name buildings in the town according to real buildings in real towns and then state how they relate to an organelle in the cell. An example would be the "Mitochondria Power Company" or the "Vacuole Food Bank" etc....
Lesson on the Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| epiceukaryote-bbtnb.mcworld |
Winter Olympics XXIII
Students will design and organize the athletic events sites for the Winter Olympics XXIII South Korea in Minecraft Education Edition. Special attention should be given to safety and real-world engineering possibilities.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
Students will design and organize the athletic events sites for the Winter Olympics XXIII South Korea in Minecraft Education Edition. Special attention should be given to safety and real-world engineering possibilities.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| winterolympicsxxiii.mcworld |
Leagues of Literacy Chapter 1
Before The Dragon Realm (which is recommended over this lesson) came Leagues of Literacy (L.O.L.) Getting male and sometimes female students to write a descriptive and interesting fantasy story can be difficult. Welcome to Leagues of Literacy! One simplified Kingdom awaits and guarantees to spark creative writing for all ages based on their experience in this world.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
Before The Dragon Realm (which is recommended over this lesson) came Leagues of Literacy (L.O.L.) Getting male and sometimes female students to write a descriptive and interesting fantasy story can be difficult. Welcome to Leagues of Literacy! One simplified Kingdom awaits and guarantees to spark creative writing for all ages based on their experience in this world.
Lesson on Minecraft Education Site
.MCWORLD File: Download Below
| leaguesofliteracy.mcworld |