Dangerous Data Sets

Student Activities

DATA GATHERING PHASE

o    Once the Lesson has been started by the Teacher (indicated by turning it to night time - allowing Mobs to spawn.), Students will begin to explore and collect items dropped from defeated monsters throughout the 10 min Night Cycle.

o    Students must create data sets of the items received from Monsters, IE: Rotten Flesh, Gunpowder, Bows / Arrows Etc) This will require students to have Pen / Paper or a digital method to track each kill and the # of items dropped.

o    Students should initially work in groups of 2 to 4 for the data gathering phase to increase the number of kills possible.

o    Upon completion of the Data Gathering Phase Students will return and 2-3 Initial Groups can combine to share their data together depending on the size of data sets desired.  Alternatively for larger data sets the whole class can create one large table of all items.

DATA SHARING PHASE

o    Combined groups will share their data together and use this to create a simple data set that reflects:
|Mob Name | Item Name / Type | Number Of Items Dropped Per Instance|

DATA REPRESENTATION

o    Students can plot their data by building in game Graphs, or explore various other ways to showcase the data collected. Students should be included in the process of discussing what common and unique ways data can be showcased.  Perhaps one of the students can find a very unique way to showcase data using Minecraft.

o    Students will properly label the created representations and re-iterate wither Verbally, or in Written format what it means.

o    Students should spend no more than 20 Minutes building their representations of the data collected.

DATA DISCUSSION

o    Guiding questions can be asked during this process to allow players to explore the variety of ways that Data is used in the games they play and in other real world environments.

TEACHER ACTIVITIES and LESSON / WORLD PREPARATION REQUIREMENTS

•    Create a New Survival Infinite World on Normal Difficulty.

•    (Est  5 Min) Prior to Students Loading in, the Teacher will enter the world and give him/herself Creative Rights (/Gamemode C) and Provide Full Sets of armor for all students, a Diamond Sword Each, and a Stack of consumable food.  This can be placed in Chests or given to students via the /Give commands.

•    When students are in the world and ready, teacher will use the command /time set night and allow the kids to seek out creatures to collect materials from.