Game & Learn Academic Camp or Club - Minecraft EngineeringCraft

Game & Learn Academic Camp or Club - Minecraft EngineeringCraft Grades: 4-12 Number of Students: Up to 20 Additional Resources: Flyer   Highlights: Join Mastery Coding for Minecraft gameplay and workshops, where students will create buildings, machines, and factories while learning about computer science logic, the engineering field, and how to create contraptions using Minecraft’s extensive engineering tools!   Camp or Club Implementation This course can be run as either a camp or a club. Both camps and clubs are facilitated by Mastery Coding certified instructors. Clubs: Delivered across multiple weeks Can be run after school, during breaks, or on holidays Includes additional activities outside of live sessions Camps: Delivered over the course of a week (3 days) 3-hour sessions No additional activities outside of live sessions   Curriculum or Lesson Topics: Learning Objectives Students begin by identifying the usefulness of design and engineering within their builds to make them more aesthetic and/or functional. Students illustrate their understanding of these new ideas by either mimicking designs or creating their own original content Students use design, engineering, mathematics, logic, and physics to enhance building, inventing, and programming skills in both real-world and Minecraft environments.   Soft Skills Self Awareness: Students gradually recognize their own strengths, preferences, and values through their roles in EngineeringCraft and translate this to the real world to develop themselves and later serve as an effective participant in a community. Self Management: Students improve their ability to recognize the emotions of others and themselves through in-game interactions, and thus form strategies for the real world to handle such emotions in a positive & constructive manner. Social Awareness: Students place themselves in the shoes of others who come from a myriad of backgrounds different from their society, and are able to act with empathy for others Responsible Decision Making: Students understand there being consequences for immoral actions, such as harming other player characters, and learn how to act accordingly based on ideas such as ethics, safety, and well-being of others Relationship Skills: Students build and maintain healthy relationships with other players through community, cooperation, trade, and peacefully resolving conflict   STEAM Connections STEAM connections embedded in this program reinforce relevant science and math concepts to provide a well-rounded educational experience. Science: Students gain insight into ideas of empirical testing that they apply to the sociological game and real life Technology: Students learn the history of technology and how it affected societies in their times to better understand the potentials impacts of modern and future technologies on our current society Engineering: Students find out about the great feats of human engineering as well as the wonders of the world so that they can design & construct amazing structures within their own societies Art: Students understand forms of communication, creative expression, and cooperation so that they can create strong ties and a stable society Math: Students constantly perform simple arithmetic and calculations as they build, travel, and organize throughout the world   Technical Requirements: Minecraft Bedrock Edition Supported Devices: Windows 10, iOS and Android only Zoom Video Conferencing Reliable Internet connection