Overview


Transform learning with Minecraft

Minecraft: Education Edition is an open-world, game-based learning platform that offers educators a transformative way to engage students and ignite their passion for learning! Minecraft promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is your imagination.

Collaborate on projects with classmates. Document your work and share
in class.		 Personalize your
game!

Effectively communicate learning objectives
in-game.		 Play in secure environment along with your classroom
community.		 Ask helpful guides for more     information, including digital
resources.

Minecraft: Education Edition empowers unique and creative learning experiences for educators and students alike
Classroom Friendly

Minecraft: Education Edition offers special features for educators such as easy tutorials, classroom management tools, secure sign-in, classroom collaboration and tons of sample lessons, plus a global network of mentors and tech support.
Real Learning Outcomes

Educators in grades K-12 are using Minecraft: Education Edition to teach a range of subjects, from history and chemistry to sustainability and foreign languages, and can map lessons directly to specific learning outcomes and curriculum standards.
Build 21st Century Skills

Minecraft: Education Edition helps prepare students for the future workplace, building skills like collaboration, communication, critical thinking and systems thinking. The open learning environment gives students the freedom to experiment, encouraging creative self-expression and problem solving.
Learn to Code in Minecraft

Code Builder is a feature that allows students to learn coding in Minecraft using tools including Code.org, Tynker, Scratch and Microsoft MakeCode. Students can use blocks of code or JavaScript to build and create in Minecraft. Minecraft Hour of Code also offers a free, one-hour introduction to coding basics.

Minecraft: Education Edition – An Educator’s Journey
Taking Your First Steps

Spatial thinking and pixel art in Minecraft create an excellent opportunity for students to work on mathematics and visual arts objectives in an engaging environment. Additionally, pixel art is a medium that’s already engaging to students and one that allows educators to take their first steps with the game without being the expert.
Leveraging the Community

Educators visiting the Minecraft: Education Edition community site will find existing lesson plans on pixel art, grid paper to plan student work, and even a Minecraft world set up as a blank canvas for students to engage in creative expression. These materials are distributed to the students, and the crafting begins.
Time to Build

Students open up a Minecraft world to use as their canvas. Their pixel art creations range from portraits to landscapes to patterns and language. Students take care to transfer their plans to the immersive space.
Assessing Student Work

For this pixel-art lesson, students turn in not only screenshots from their Minecraft creation but also their grid diagram from their plans. The educator also includes questions about scale and ratio to push student thinking.