Overview, general information[]
About Minecraft - links to good descriptions, tutorials
- what it is
- why you would want to do this
What you have
What you can do
- moving around, exploring
- gathering materials
- making tools
- interact - re-enact events
Day 1[]
- surviving day 1 tutorial - clearing, gathering material, making tools, building
Some other suggestions[]
- moving around, exploring - sprint, crouch, run
- little wall building demo, with the 3 main ways of quickly building (run back, jump and build, 2 layer quick click, 3 layer quick click in creative)
- tool making - axe, pickaxe, shovel
- how to make glass, stairs, smooth stone, cooked meat, a boat and a compass [1]
- how skins work, acquire texture packs to change appearance while playing the game
- possibly karyonix's GLSL Shader Mod, applied with a high-resolution resource pack (such as ChromaHills), to create realistic buildings
- make a waterfall
- how to enchant and how to make potions
- make a tree-house
Important for activities preparation and setup[]
- creating areas
- providing tutorials
- monitoring students working on activities
- reviewing student work for providing feedback, grading