Equipped with their new found knowledge and facts all about life on board the titanic. The children began work on their first project ... rebuilding the 'unsinkable' ship through the Minecraft Education Edition programme!! The children were so excited to be using this programme as they can tranfer the skills that they already know.
The children selected their own groups and armed with a plan of the titanic and their facts from the previous lesson they tried to navigate the ship and rebuild the different parts.
Children found locating the first class space to build the bedrooms was easy as it was on the top floor, as they explored it soon became clear that building the third class might not be so easy and we discovered to get to the lower levels we would have to dig down and build stairs. I was amazed at how the children could solve these problems and for those who didn't know how there was always someone willing to help :-)
Mr McArdle even came in and showed the class how to take pictures of their work on their own minecraft 'portfolio' so we can keep track of our progress.
