Blog

Unearth Epic Dinosaurs with BBC Earth and Minecraft Education

24 Jun 2025 BBC Building with Dinosaurs

Over twenty-five years ago, the BBC released one of its most beloved original series, Walking With Dinosaurs. Now, a new generation of fans can experience the dino-drama for themselves with an exciting reimagining based on the most recent scientific discoveries! To celebrate the 2025 return of Walking With Dinosaurs, Minecraft Education and BBC Earth have partnered up to create Building With Dinosaurs, a dino-themed build challenge that puts students in the role of paleontologists, digging away dirt and sand to discover the dino-blocks beneath their feet.


Digging for Dinosaurs

Just like the paleontologists featured in Walking With Dinosaurs, students will build their understanding of dinosaurs from the ground up. After heading to the dig site to discover dino-blocks representing different dinosaur skin, eyes, and teeth, students will use their finds to create models of three dinosaurs featured in the series: Spinosaurus, Lusotitan, and Triceratops.

Using detailed skeletons as guides, students are free to build their own versions of these stunning dinosaurs in the museum gallery. As they uncover more dino-blocks, they’ll be able to add even more impressive details to their models. And once they’re complete, students can photograph their dinosaur models in front of various environments for an epic dino photo shoot – say cheese, Spinosaurus!

In Game screenshot of a dinosaur

 

Dino Facts

To support the curiosity of young paleontologists-in-training, the Building With Dinosaurs build challenge is accompanied by downloadable fact sheets for each of the three dinosaurs featured in the game. These fact sheets provide additional information such as the height, weight, diet, and habitat of each dinosaur, helping students to better understand these amazing creatures and build their models as accurately as possible.

Play Building With Dinosaurs to journey back in time with Minecraft Education and BBC Earth today! Interested in more awesome Minecraft Education lessons that use game-based learning to bring environmental and ecological science to life in your classroom? Check out our other BBC Earth partnerships, Planet Earth III and Frozen Planet II, or explore our full science offerings!

Walking With Dinosaurs is a BBC Studios Science Unit Production co-produced with ZDF and France Télévisions for BBC and PBS.

Previous Link
Back to top