8-10 yrs old
11-13 yrs old
Business & Entrepreneurship
Climate & Environment
Science
Students can research businesses that are known globally for being sustainable.
October 25, 2016
Biogen, USA, as a top carbon neutral business
Shire, PLC, is committed to reducing fleet emissions and waste management
Mini-Lesson (whole class)
If you travel to Seattle, a tour through Theo Chocolate is both about free tastings and learning about a replicable business model: sustainable farming and free trade. Sustainable practices in business require methodical choices about cost effectiveness and purposeful planning. Theo Chocolate chooses to pay more than the average to cocoa sellers knowing they will get a better harvest. The company has also endeavored to work only with those businesses that practice sustainable farming. Can’t make it there in person? Skype with them, or a local business in your area that uses sustainable resources. Do you know any businesses in your area that pride themselves on their work towards being sustainable?
• How can businesses practice sustainability?
Minecraft allows for users to save items to their chest and even trade in stored content for other resources. People make choices about using resources. Students could practice sustainable living that is unique to Minecraft and then extrapolate that business ethics practice into other examples.
Cooperative group activity choices: o Option One: Have students work in a team to decide how to use resources even before the exercise. Give students a value sheet of resources before building and then give them a 30-minute build time. o Option Two: Have students compete in smaller teams of two to create the most resourceful build maximizing resources and even repurposing materials.
Wrap-up: Sustainability can be many things; locally too it means more to the customers. What is important in your area when people think of sustaining some business or farming practices? Water or energy conservation? Land usage?
Extension: • Find a local business model that is practicing sustainability. What are some of the short term losses they are incurring by adhering to stricter standards? What is the long term pay off for the business as well as the customers as this business practices ongoing sustainability?
Evidence of Learning Teams will present their world with a budget or cost savings spreadsheet in Excel with conditional formatting.
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What can we do to slow deforestation?
8-10
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Geography
Math
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Collaborate: design & create a human body!
6-7
Digital
Redstone Circuits
Students to create a sustainable energy circuit
Environment
Introduction to Logic Gates
What's the logical password?
11-13
Comp Sci
Rube Goldberg Machines
Minecraft and Physics.
Building Sustainable Homes
What would happen if we ignored climate change?
Element Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger hunt to find elements in the world.
Chemistry All Around You
Identify examples of common chemical reactions.
Renewable Energy
Introduce students to alternative energy sources.
Properties of Matter
Differentiate elements, molecules, compounds.
14-18
Tech
The Great Pyramids of Giza
Journey to the mysterious pyramids of Egypt.
History
Make 2 Sides connect
Students will explore the basics of engineering.
Government
City Planning
City Planning for Population Growth
Dynamic Ecosystems Project
Mastering ecosystems concepts, ideas, principles
Gaming
Detecting Wildlife Crime
Students detect and stop pangolin trafficking.
Living on the Mars!
Creating sustainable environment on Mars
Loss of Biodiversity
What would happen with an extinction of a specie?
Water, The Secret of Life
Water is the secret of life
Evolving Shipwrecks
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Minecraft Watercycle
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Mission to Mars
Plan a trip to mars and build a sustainable colony
Circulatory System
Blood Flow through the Heart, Lungs, and Body
Chemical Reactions
Explore chemical reactions and temperature.
Structures, Models, Molecules
Atoms & molecules can be represented in many ways
Visual Art
What is the world made of?
Explore the elemental composition of the world.
Area and Volume
This is a yearlong project for Fifth Grade.
The Scientific Method
Use the scientific method to design experiments
Safe Schools
Minecraft Zoo
Students will create a zoo in Minecraft.
Lang. Arts
Preventing Urban Spread
How do we use land efficiently?
Exploring Chemistry Safely
Identify and reduce potential hazards in a lab.
Atomic Structures and Isotopes
Atoms are made of neutrons, protons, and electrons
Human Body and Organs
Journey through the human body
Health
Minecraft Measurement
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Canyon Arch Bridge
8th Grade Engineering Challenge
Moon Craft 2.0 Lunar Learning
Students learn about the Moon & NASA's LOP-G
Leadership
Healthy Eating Lesson
Expansion of healthy eating via planting crops
What’s the Probability
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Running with Rhinos
Visit a rhino orphanage in Minecraft.
Function Reefs
Design various coral reefs with Minecraft and code
Human-Kind: Inventors
Humans invent technology to help them survive.
Habitats: Human Impact
Explore the human impact on earth's biomes!
Road Construction Ahead
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Sustainable Farming
Depicting best sustainable farming method
Velocity-time graph & dispt.
To find displacement using velocity-time graph.
Chicken or the Egg
7th Grade Engineering Challenge
Plate Motions
NGSS Middle School Science
Sustainable Schools
Students build a sustainable classroom
Types of Chemical Reactions
Demonstration of different types of reactions
The Force of Minecraft!
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Sensors
Sensors in Monitoring and Control Systems
Wave Properties
Aquarium
Molecules
Blood Cycle Escape Room
In order to get out you must know your blood cycle
Circulatory System Summary
review the circulatory system in an engaging way.
Meet The Rangers
Meet Wildlife Rangers in Minecraft.
Climate Action Project
A Project As A Part of Koen's #ClimateActionP
Crafting Your Review
Students create a review world for others.
Physics:Roller Coaster World
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Everlasting Bubbles
How do Soda Springs work?
Wonderful Plant World
Designed to teach Ss about plant's vascular system
MolCraft
Explore molecules in Minecraft
Up and Atom
Create Working Models of Atoms
Fun, Functional Playground
Students redesign their existing school playground
Heart Quest
Go on a quest to learn about the heart
Aquanaut Aquarius – Habitat II
A Skype Field Trip Companion Experience (Or Not)
Field Trip Through The Heart
Trek the path that blood takes through the heart
Sluneční soustava / Solar syst
Prozkoumej okolní vesmír!
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Tìm hiểu về các nguyên tố hóa học
One Health and Vector Control
Use Minecraft to control 6 mosquito-borne diseases
Animals
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Les réactions chimiques
Réactions chimique dans le monde réel et Minecraft
De quoi est fait le monde ?
Décomposer la matière en éléments chimiques
La méthode scientifique
La science en mouvement !
Structures atomiques et isotop
Numéro atomique, protons, électrons, neutrons.
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La science dans Minecraft
Différences entre le monde réel et Minecraft
La chimie en toute sécurité
Découvrir comment faire de la chimie en sécurité
Sample Size/Sound Conclusions
Find a region's composition by taking a sample!