Minecraft Wiki:Projects/Minecraft in education/Science

Possible in Vanilla

• Discussing ores (geology), how plants really grow (plant biology), the ○N○
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  ○S○ factor (following the sun and finding your way back without torches at night (astronomy)) (geography and mapping techniques). There were discussions around "How would I get back home if I was lost in the woods after biking up a trail that no one really knew about?" (survival skills)

• Energy, reaction

• Water Cycle - student project for 5th grade Science 2012.12

• Building extra-dimensional figures, possible up to four-dimensional figures in Minecraft.

• For example, a tesseract is fairly easy to build.
  

  

  A tesseract in-game.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Possible with mods

IndustrialCraft 2 + Resonant Induction

• Nuclear reactors

• Fusion
• Fission
• Breeder

Galacticraft

• Space station oxygen setup

• Build an airtight design with functional airlocks, so as not to suffocate
• Best version of this mod to use is Lapito's Galacticraft Modpack for the Technic Platform.

Redpower 3

• Compact logic circuits

• Especially useful on multiplayer, such as for making a power plant for a city

ComputerCraft

• Programming

• The ComputerCraft Wiki has a tutorial for creating a password-protected door lock in Lua.