Coding
Minecraft Education
The blocks they already love, rebuilt for chemistry, history, coding, and collaborative builds.
- Grade bands
- 3-5 · 6-8
- Price model
- School
- Platforms
- Windows · Mac · iPad · Chromebook
- Subject
- Coding
What it is
The classroom edition adds lesson libraries, a chemistry lab, in game coding with blocks or Python, and teacher controls to the game half your class plays at home. The trick is that collaboration, planning, and documentation are the actual curriculum; the blocks are bait.
Notable features
- Lesson library
- In game coding
- Teacher controls
A way to use it
Assign build roles (architect, historian, engineer) before students spawn in, or the first ten minutes become demolition.
Privacy and accounts
Managed through school Microsoft accounts with teacher controls.
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