Thursday, December 10, 2015

6th Grade Minecraft Day 3

Please answer the following:

1.  How did adding night/enemies affect your ability to survive?
2.  What did you use for shelter and how did it work?
3.  If we were to proceed into civilizations, how can we use Minecraft to simulate the other needs of a community?

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

6th Grade Minecraft Day 2

Please answer the following questions:
1.) Describe what it was like in each stage of “hunter/gatherers”.  What were the challenges you faced along the way?
2.) Did each stage get easier?  If so, why?
3.) How do you think technology advances affected the hunters and gatherers that we are trying to simulate?
4.) What differences can you see from the simulation of Minecraft to the reality of early humans' (hunter/gatherers) experiences?

Monday, December 7, 2015

6th Grade MinecraftEdu Day 1

Minecraft and Social Studies???  Has Mr. Dunn lost his mind?

What connections do you see between what you have learned in Social Studies and what you can do in Minecraft?


Sunday, December 6, 2015

This Week in the Tech Lab - December 7-11

6th Grade - Social Studies - MinecraftEdu

Classes will use MinecraftEdu to simulate the challenges early humans faced from Australopithecus to Homo-Erectus.