By: Guardians of the Planet
- Kyle Avalani, Sam Buxton, Madeline Cummins, Thoa Nguyen
With rapidly rising global temperatures, natural disasters displacing millions, and deforestation destroying the habitats of hundreds of millions of animals, there's no doubt that climate change is a massive issue today and will only continue to become more dangerous. We at Guardians of the Planet believe that one of the best ways we can work together to help combat climate change is by helping educate and inform the next generation so that they are better equipped to tackle this issue.
Our proposed solution is EcoCraft: a Minecraft Education Edition experience to teach children about environmental sustainability and activism. This mod will be available standalone for adding on to base Minecraft and also coupled with a lesson plan we've designed with the help of science teachers to distribute through Minecraft Education. This offers children (and their teachers) a more structured, formal approach to the mod, while still tapping into the immense popularity of Minecraft and the incredibly fun nature of the game.
- The world for our Minecraft Education Edition experience
- Our detailed lesson plans for instructors to implement our experience into their lessons
- Our Minecraft Code scripts to handle the logic behind our world
Website Link: https://kyleavalani.github.io/capstone/?fbclid=IwAR114usYwxZUtIsnuTL8Bb_Sn0vKJN8YAC0e-nbUbxgxlWT8hOx1rxwPWq8
- Download the Minecraft world listed in this repository and then open up Minecraft Education Edition and navigate to the import button listed below.
- Once you're in the world, hit
Cto open up Minecraft Code and open up a new blank Python template - Copy in our script
UnitScripts.pyand hit run - Follow along the lesson plan to instruct your students how to play! But most importantly, have fun!
Fork the repo and create your own branch. Make your changes and then submit them as a Pull-Request. Admins of this branch will review your suggestions and approve or deny them with appropriate specifications.
Kyle Avalani: avalani@uw.edu
Sam Buxton: samueb3@uw.edu
Maddi Cummins: maddic9@uw.edu
Thoa Nguyen: thoalala@uw.edu