Metrocraft: Our Class Builds and Governs a Minecraft City!
While constructing and governing a functional Minecraft-based metropolis, our students learn how real cities work.
Right Brain Curriculum
Average rating:
4.9
Number of reviews:(566)
What's included
6 live meetings
6 in-class hoursHomework
We send out homework each week that is optional for students to complete.Class Experience
US Grade 3 - 6
A Minecraft City Comes to Life! Join our community as we build and govern a world-class Minecraft city, complete with everything needed for incoming residents! Build, budget and furnish your own house. Plan a marketing campaign as you build your own business. Serve on the city council and vote to shape the city’s future as you help create a constitution of laws for your citizens. Our Right Brain Curriculum teachers will guide you through – demonstrating how math, economics and community-building are key to a successful, working urban environment. STEM skills have never been so much fun! --------------------------- Class Components: Week 1: Welcome to Our City! Home budgeting and construction, Debating on the City Council Week 2: Planning Your Business, The Geography of City Names Week 3: Flags Around the World, Mathematics in Our City Week 4: Democracy in Action, City Planning 101 Week 5: A Constitution to Call Our Own, The Environment and Our City Week 6: A Group Project, Perfecting Our City, Our City Lives On... Our goal is for students to gain an understanding of how a city works while experiencing the joy of constructing and walking around in their own creation!
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We use a public domain version of Minetest instead of Minecraft, which we have found is better for this civics-based program: 1) We find that the mobs, invisibility, withers, potions and the like in Minecraft makes for a not-so-realistic atmosphere. Minetest works better for a civics class as it is more realistic. 2) There are mods we put into Minetest to allow for more decorations, cars, signs and other items that makes it easier to say, design a business or decorate a home. Minecraft has mods available too but in order to run them on our server, everyone signed up for the class would have to download them all on their own computers, which is technically challenging for many families. Minetest includes them automatically. 3) Minetest is free which allows more students to participate in the class. Please note THIS PROGRAM DOES NOT GENERALLY WORK ON TABLETS. We provide instructions for how to download Minetest onto PCs, Macs and Chromebooks.
1 file available upon enrollment
Language of Instruction
English
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
We have designed our own powerpoints on various civics subjects (mentioned above) for the direct instruction portion of the class.
Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved or associated with Mojang.
Joined July, 2018
4.9
566reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
Right Brain Curriculum is a Massachusetts-based education company offering engaging, project-based online learning programs. Our mission is to create outstanding, student-centered enrichment programs that allow children to experience real life in a fun, engaging learning atmosphere. Currently, we run four different versions of our Metrocraft class, a civics-based program that takes place in a Minecraft-like world.
Right Brain Curriculum is managed by Matt Bowling, Education Director and Savvy Reuben, Director of Teaching & Learning
Matt holds a Master's in Education Administration with Principal's license from UMass Boston as well as a Master's in Elementary Education from Northwestern University. Matt has more than 15 years experience as a classroom teacher for grades 2, 3, 5 and 7 in both public and private schools in California and Massachusetts. He has served as a Director of Curriculum and Instruction in both public and private schools in the Boston area.
Savvy has more than ten years experience in education, working in private, public and charter schools in New York City and Boston.
Her education focused on teaching, curriculum planning, classroom management and a specialization in autism/intellectual disabilities. She attended Trinity College and Teacher's College of Columbia University.
She absolutely loves teaching and wants every class to be a unique, submersive, and positive experience where students feel free to be creative, take risks, and have a whole lot of fun while learning something new :)
Reviews
Live Group Class
$149
for 6 classes1x per week, 6 weeks
60 min
Completed by 1931 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 9-13
5-16 learners per class
