MinecraftEDU club

On Wednesday January 28, Mr. Edwin and Mr. Tomas launched the first ever MinecraftEDU club at AIS Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with 15 students a mix of boys and girls from grade 3, 4 and 5.  Only one of the students was brand new to Minecraft others have varying level of experience.  The grade 5 students have been using MinecraftEDU in their classes since the end of first semester so they were the most familiar with the EDU version.

Getting logged in!

Getting logged in!

Logging in!

logging in.

adding the server.

signing on to the server.

waiting to start.

Whose ready to start!

Off they go!

Racing around to get warmed up!

Explore!

Having too much fun!

Frozen and waiting for directions.

After a short warm up students were frozen by their teachers and given introduction to their first team challenge, the Island Challenge. "This scenario is a challenge that divides students into teams to build a bridge to transport two cows from one island to another." 

The full description of this lesson as found on the MinecraftEDU resources is, "This scenario is a stand alone lesson that helps students to build and work together to meet a challenge.  Please note that you might need to spawn additional cows as sometimes the cows decide to leave the island.  This scenario was designed by Max Kassel for our after-school program and our students loved it.  Students were able to do this challenge in less than an hour.  Be prepared for a lot of talking among teams!"

Helping each other switch to the challenge area.

relogging into the server.

Waiting to start the team challenge

Still waiting.

Everyone is stacked onto of each-other.

"I see Mr. Edwin!"

Frozen on our islands waiting to hear what our challenge is.

Making a plan!

Working as a team to make a bridge.

Some teams made very quick progress on their bridges.

building a bridge to get off the island

Time to wrangle some cows and get them across the bridge!

"Get back her you silly cow."

"That's a good cow."