Hi Everyone!

Dr. Guthals here again!

The past month I have been working on a workshop to introduce educators to the world of teaching STEM with Minecraft. This is without LearnToMod specifically, but still very related because everything you can do here you can then expand into LearnToMod in fun ways.

Since Minecraft is all block based, one simple lesson to integrate into the game is Area, Perimeter, and Volume. For example, you could build a world where three signs give the formulas:

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And then you could have a couple examples:

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And then you could have one where the students have to figure it out:

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This video shows this world in a bit more detail:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RfXA-9vlQU&feature=youtu.be

Do you have thoughts on how this could be used to teach other Math concepts? Build worlds, comment below, tweet about it #teachstem #teachcs @learntomod We would love to see your examples!

Happy Modding!

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