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Using this resource These activities are suitable to use with a variety of Minecraft versions.

You will find detailed guided instructions are included in the appendix of this document. These can be used by teachers or children.

The guided instructions have been created using Minecraft Education Edition for use on Windows 10 devices or iOS tablet devices. Many of the guided instruction steps are adaptable for older versions of the software, including the mobile Pocket Edition.

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Quest 2: Viking celebration This activity complements classroom work on the topic of Viking Celebrations:

Activity 1: Celebrate like a Viking challenge!

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New words and phrases Weather effects Sapling Furnace Hunger-slots Till Farmland Garden hoe Dirt block Grass block Hydrated

You may find it useful to introduce pupils to new words and phrases. The amount of detail you use when explaining these terms will depend on the age and prior knowledge of the children. Detailed guided instructions are included in the appendix of this document

Approximate times are given for each step throughout the resource.

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Skills development

This quest embraces Habits of Mind and offers opportunities for children to develop the curriculum skills and capabilities as outlined below. In order to do so effectively, do not try to develop all of the skills, rather choose which skill you are focusing on and use enabling discussion with the class. Prompts on CCEA’s Thinking Posters are useful to talk about the skills and capabilities and make them explicit from the outset. Teacher modelling, spotlights and lesson plenaries signposted throughout should be used to encourage children to become more metacognitive.

Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities Managing

information

Ask focused questions; plan and set goals and break a task into sub-tasks; use their own and others’ ideas to locate sources of information; select, classify, compare and evaluate information; select the most appropriate method for a task; use a range of methods for collating, recording and representing information; and communicate with a sense of audience and purpose.

Thinking, Problem-Solving

and Decision-Making

Make and test predictions; explain and justify methods; understand more than one spatial point of view; examine options and weigh up pros and cons; try alternative problem-solving solutions and approaches; and use different types of questions systematically and with purpose.

Being Creative

Learn from and build on own and others’ ideas and experiences; value other people’s ideas; experiment with objects and ideas in a playful way; make ideas real by experimenting with different designs; begin to develop their own value judgements about the merits of their work; and see opportunities in mistakes and failures.

Working with others

Show that they can work in different roles in a group and take responsibility for appropriate tasks; be willing to help others with their learning; understand and learn to respond to feedback; and work with their peers to reach agreements and begin to manage disagreements.

Self-Management

Be aware of their personal strengths, limitations and interests; set personal targets and review them; manage their behaviour in a range of situations; organise and plan how to go about a task; focus, sustain attention and persist with tasks; review learning and some aspects that might be improved; learn ways to manage their own time; seek advice when necessary; and compare their own approach with others’ and in different contexts.

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Cross-Curricular Skills

Using Maths

Use a range of problem solving strategies; compare methods of presentation; organise their own work and work systematically; use appropriate mathematical language to discuss their work and explain their thinking; explore the properties of common 2D and 3D shapes; and estimate the area of buildings by counting squares/cubes.

Communication

Explain information, ideas and opinions clearly; make relevant contributions to discussions; and ask questions about others’ points of views and respond appropriately.

Using ICT

Investigate, make predictions and solve problems through interaction with digital tools; communicate responsibly using Minecraft as a contemporary digital tool; talk about, review and make improvements to work, reflecting on the process and outcome; and manage and present their stored work and showcase their learning across the curriculum, using ICT safely and responsibly.

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Spotlights

Throughout the gaming experience identify and highlight observations you have made where children have demonstrated effective use of skills in focus. Explicitly talk about these instances with the class. Effective questions could include:

• What are you doing? • Why are you doing it like that? • Is that the only/best option?

• Could you do it a different way? • Is anyone else doing anything

similar?

Gestures As an enabler to cooperative gaming allow the children to invent their own dance move/gesture to use throughout their experience.

Children can collectively use their gesture to celebrate instances of collaborative team success. Well-known gestures include the OK symbol, the Dab, the Floss, or this gesture dance for Vikings called ‘The Raid’.

Swinging hips from side to side

Riding the waves using arms

Throwing Thor’s hammer from high to low

Miming a Viking roar

And repeat three times!

Remember to share your gestures with us online. Here are some children doing the Raid gesture dance in a Northern Ireland classroom.

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Discussion cubes

As part of the plenary to each activity, provide time for the children to use the most appropriate discussion cubes as an enabler for explicit reflection of the skills applied throughout.

Guided instruction and supporting resources

Detailed guided instructions for teachers or children can be found in the appendix of this document. The following supporting resource may be useful:

• STEM in Minecraft recipe videos for crafting tips. • STEM in Minecraft bigger builds and blue prints to guide you through more complex

builds.

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Activity 1: Celebrate like a Viking challenge Time: 90 minutes

Mode: Survival multiplayer

Teacher Role

1. Discuss with the children some of the reasons Vikings held celebrations, for example seasonal feasts, weddings or celebrating successful raids.

2. Recap on the fact that often these celebrations lasted for days and were a time for families and communities to come together.

3. Encourage children to describe what might have happened at these celebrations, for example:

a. Everyone dressed up for the occasion in their finest clothes and jewellery. b. Animals were sacrificed as a symbol of commitment to their gods. c. Lavish foods were served for everyone to feast on. d. Instruments would be played as entertainment for people to dance. e. Skalds and poets would tell sagas and read poetry as entertainment.

4. Compare celebrations today, considering what has changed and what has remained the same.

5. Explain that they are going to work together to prepare for a Viking celebration in Minecraft.

6. Collectively agree a Viking celebration to prepare for, discussing what kinds of activities will take place and how the longhouse and other village buildings will be decorated.

7. Organise the children into groups of two or three and allocate roles. 8. Encourage children to explore the larger Viking longhouse village in Minecraft before

planning what they need to do in order to prepare for the celebration. 9. Hand out Activity 1: Celebrate like a Viking challenge and allow the children to work

together to design and build. a. Guided instructions (if required by the teacher or the children) can be found

in the appendix of this document. b. During the plenary use your selected discussion cube to encourage the

children to think about and discuss the skills developed in-game.

Coding opportunity

Within the Minecraft Education Edition software there is the opportunity to use code to build. In this activity crafting animal pens would be a suitable coding opportunity.

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Teacher tasks – allowing animals

Remember! There are a variety of detailed guided steps in Quest 1: Viking Roles that may also be useful when completing this quest. They include orientation, camera, book and quill and many more.

Before starting Activity 1: Celebrate like a Viking challenge make sure animals are allowed in the world, and set the weather to perfect:

1. If you are in-game press ESC to pause the game. Navigate to the main menu. 2. Choose Settings. 3. Choose Game from the left menu and toggle the following setting to on:

a. Show classroom settings b. Perfect weather c. Allow Mobs (animals are classed as mobs in Minecraft)

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Teacher tasks – changing game modes

The activity in this quest is designed for multiplayer survival game mode. Before starting the activity check your game mode is set to survival:

1. If you are in-game press ESC to pause the game. Navigate to the main menu. 2. Choose Settings. 3. Choose Game from the left menu. 4. On the right-side of the menu select the game mode choose survival:

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Teacher tasks – spawning animals

These steps are designed for multiplayer survival mode. Teachers can spawn more animals in game if needed. To do this:

1. If you are in-game press ESC to pause the game. Navigate to the main menu. 2. Choose Settings. 3. Choose Game from the left menu. 4. In Personal Game Mode check Creative. You are now in creative mode, while the

multiplayer world that the children are players in, is still set to survival. This means that you have a full inventory and can fly.

5. Tap on Settings to return to the main menu. Press ESC to resume the game.

6. Press e to open your inventory, which is now in creative mode. 7. In the search tab type “spawn”, you’ll see a variety of animals and creatures that you

can spawn. Drag the spawn item to the Hotbar. In this example it’s a chicken spawn.

8. Close your inventory.

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9. The chicken spawn is in the Hotbar in position 1. Make sure it’s selected and right-click (or tap if you are using a mobile device) to spawn the animal.

10. A chicken will appear.

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Teacher tasks – weather effects

Part of this activity includes fishing. Fishing while raining increases the chance of making a good catch! To make it rain press T to open the chat window (at the bottom of the screen) and type this command, followed by enter (if you are on a mobile device press the go arrow on the right):

/weather rain

To stop rain type this command in the chat window, followed by enter:

/weather clear

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Teacher tasks - 2D Map

Our 2D map of the STEM in Minecraft Viking world is a useful addition to your lessons, helping you to become familiar with the various locations.

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Appendix – Guided instruction for teachers and children

The following guided instruction may be useful for teachers and children.

Using the Hotbar

The steps in this resource use survival mode. You will know that you are in survival mode by the health (hearts) and hunger (chicken legs) on the heads-up display bar. The nine squares are called the Hotbar. This is where you store and select commonly-used items from your inventory.

For more information on hunger management in Minecraft, visit www.minecraft.gamepedia.com

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Find the longhouse Viking village

Go through the Viking area entrance:

To the right of the gate is the small Viking village. The larger Viking longhouse village is over the hills to the left, beyond the snowcapped mountains:

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Catch, prepare and cook fish Create a fishing rod

To catch a fish you will need a fishing rod. Like other tools such as swords or pickaxes, a fishing rod will only last for a limited time. You can use a fishing rod 65 times before it breaks. To craft a fishing rod see the STEM in Minecraft recipes resource.

Tip! Fishing while raining increases the chance of making a good catch.

Catch fish

1. Choose an area of water close to the long house village. 2. Select the fishing rod. 3. Right-click (tap if using a mobile device) while facing a body of water.

4. Once the float has risen to the water's surface, watch for it to bob under the water. 5. As soon as it bobs under the water, right-click (tap if using a mobile device) again and a fish should fly out of the water towards your feet.

This task takes a little patience to get right. Keep trying! There are four types of fish:

There are four types of fish listed in Minecraft:

• Raw fish and raw salmon (which can be cooked in a furnace). • Clown fish (which cannot be cooked). • Puffer fish (which is poisonous). • Cooked salmon is the most beneficial fish of all of these. It restores three

hungry points.

You will need a furnace to cook the fish. See the STEM in Minecraft recipes resource.

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Farm, prepare and cook meat Animal enclosure

Work in small groups and decide on a pen design. You may also wish to use this guidance to build a small animal pen: 1. You will need enough wood to make 16 fences (6 logs (blocks), 24 planks, or

11 sticks). See the recipes resource for more details about fences. 2. Dig a hole: 5 x 5 and 1 block deep. 3. Place fences all around the edge. 4. Put a block in the middle.

Fences form a barrier that is 1½ blocks high, so that animals can't jump over it.

If you place a block in the middle of the pen, you will be able to stand on it to jump out of the pen, but the chickens won't. This pen design is easy for you and the chickens to get into from any direction, but only you can get out.

1. Hold some food out. 2. When they notice the food, they will look at you and follow you. 3. Lead the animals to the enclosure.

Animal breeding

1. To get the animals to breed, you need to feed them. 2. Right-click on an animal while holding some food and hearts will appear

above the animal’s head, and then click on another animal.

Slaughter

The most efficient way to harvest meat from your cows and pigs is just to enter the pen with a sword and slay most of them. You need to save a few for breeding the next herd.

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Cook

Smelting (cooking) raw meat, fish and potatoes will provide you with two to three times the amount of food points compared to eating those items raw.

Remember! Chicken has a 30 per cent chance of causing food poisoning. Cook all chicken before eating it.

How to cook meat

You will need coal and a furnace to cook the meat. See the recipes resource for more information about the furnace.

1. Put coal and meat on the furnace. Once the arrow is full, the meat is cooked.

2. Move the meat to the inventory.

Make bread, grow and harvest vegetables Bread

Bread is one of the easiest staple sources of food in Minecraft.

You make bread by placing 3 pieces of wheat side by side on the crafting table.

In small groups look for the farmed areas growing wheat throughout the Viking village.

Bread restores 3 hunger slots. Bread is also stackable. To make bread, see the recipes resource.

Wheat and vegetables

If there is time, you may wish to grow your own wheat.

You can forage for carrots and potatoes throughout the Viking long boat village.

Working in small groups plan and build storage silos with chests to store your food items.

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Decorate the longhouse Plant flowers and saplings How to craft a potted sapling: • Find a tree, for example an oak sapling. • You can use your hands to chop down the leaves of a

tree but it is better to craft an axe (see the recipes resource for more information).

• Chop the tree leaves until a sapling falls from the tree. • Pick up the sapling before it disappears. • The sapling will then appear in your Hotbar or inventory. • Use the sapling with a flower pot to make a potted plant for decoration in

the long house. Or grow trees around the outside of the long house.

Decorate the long house

Think about how you might decorate the long house. You may also find this guidance useful:

How to craft a painting in Minecraft in survival mode:

• You will need a crafting table. See the recipes resource for more information about making a crafting table and a picture frame.

• You will need 8 sticks and 1 block of wool. • Move the painting to the inventory. • Place the painting in the long

house. The image in the painting is randomly generated.

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Making clothes Craft a leather tunic Begin by making leather:

1. You can add leather to your inventory in survival mode by killing a cow or a horse. You will find cows and horses wandering around the Viking village.

2. Once you find a cow or horse, you need to attack it. When you attack it will turn pink as it becomes damaged. Continue to chase and attack the animal. Once you have killed it, it will drop leather.

3. Pick up the leather to add it to your inventory. To make a leather tunic, see the recipes resource.

To put the tunic on, from the inventory move the tunic to the second-left box beside your character.

You will see your character's appearance change. They are now wearing the tunic.

Research other clothes and household items the Vikings might have crafted, for example: • Leather boots • Leather trousers • Leather cap • Wool (while it’s not possible to create wool clothes in Minecraft, it is

possible to make and dye wool)