Data Explorers: Minecraft Education

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Descrição

Data Explorers is an action-packed learning experience on Minecraft Education, using data skills to protect our planet. Students take on the role of a data-scientist, who also happens to have magical powers. Their mission is to rescue five leading environmental experts who have been kidnapped from earth by an inter-dimensional dragon. 

Hosted on the Minecraft online virtual world, students travel through portals to five different ecosystems: rainforest, grassland, caves, glaciers and desert. In each ecosystem they will meet locals who explain their environmental problems. Together with the locals and the kidnapped expert, thy will solve the problems using data. This will help students to develop crucial skills of data recognition, verification and application.

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Como utilizar este recurso

Using the Data Explorers Teachers’ Guide, you must start by downloading Minecraft Education and the Data Explorers world and resources. From here, students can explore the five portal worlds and the challenges presented in each. As the Teachers’ Guide sets out, teachers will help students reflect on their learning around data literacy, environmental protection and key competencies.

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Os recursos

Welcome to Data Explorers!

Data Explorers on Minecraft Education is hosted on the World’s Largest Lesson website and can be accessed here:

• Data Explorers on Minecraft Education

The wider library of resources that promote the use of Sustainable Development Goals in learning can be accessed here:

• Minecraft Education

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Resultados da aprendizagem

• Obter conhecimentos prévios e aprofundar o conhecimento e a compreensão dos conceitos-chave da Cidadania para a Sustentabilidade, desafiando as visões do mundo e os valores estabelecidos.
• Aplicar uma série de ferramentas e quadros adequados para promover a Cidadania para a Sustentabilidade dos estudantes
• Refletir sobre a prática e examinar os programas curriculares nacionais para identificar oportunidades de promover a Cidadania para a Sustentabilidade de forma interdisciplinar e envolver as partes interessadas externas.

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Competências verdes

• Incorporar valores sustentáveis: Valorizar a sustentabilidade; apoiar a equidade; promover a natureza
• Abraçar a complexidade na sustentabilidade: Critical Thinking

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Creative Commons

Data Explorers was created by World’s Largest Lesson and NetApp. It is shared on the Synapses Portal under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike.

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