Minecraft Climate Change Challenge Ends
- What
- Minecraft Climate Change Challenge Ends
- When
- 2/2/2024
- Where
- Virtual
In partnership with Microsoft, LAUSD is launching a two-level esports competition with Minecraft Education during the Fall/Winter of 2023. All PK-12 classrooms are invited to participate. Embark on an epic adventure and get ready to collaborate, compete, and reshape the future of Los Angeles to help our city thrive in the midst of climate change.
November 17, 2023 - February 2, 2024:
Level 1 - Schools Reinventing Los Angeles (Asynchronous)
The Challenge
ELEMENTARY PROMPT:Los Angeles is experiencing problems because of climate change. There are droughts, heatwaves, fires, and unhealthy air. Help our city become more climate friendly. Choose a climate problem and share your best idea with a Minecraft build that helps everyone in our neighborhoods adjust to climate change.
About Level 1: Schools Reinventing Los Angeles
Schools Reinventing Los Angeles is part of the Schools Reinventing Cities program in partnership between Minecraft Education and C40 Cities. The program empowers school students across the globe to propose solutions for a more sustainable and resilient urban future, and to share these ideas with their class, teachers and city leaders.
All students are invited to participate in Level 1 by building a solution to climate change in the Level Up Los Angeles 2023-2024 world. They are tasked to craft a three-minute video showcasing their solution to tackle climate challenges that impact Los Angeles and submit their videos to be scored by a panel of judges. The top 4 teams from each region and league (Junior League - Elementary, Varsity League - Secondary) will qualify to advance to Level 2: Region Rumble.
How to Participate in the Challenge
All students and teachers have access to Minecraft Education and are invited to participate in the challenge. Teachers will have access to an educator’s guide, with accompanying Student Guide, Rubric and lesson materials for Social-Emotional Learning, Literacy and Numeracy, and ongoing professional learning sessions.
Once you have access to Minecraft Education, download and open the Los Angeles world to start your challenge journey. Here, students will find in-game characters that will assist them on their journey before they start building.
Review the rubric before you start so you understand what the judges are looking for.
Submit your project through a video recording that is no more than 3-minutes in length and clearly explains the following:
What climate issue is your team addressing?
The research into the problem
How your team designed your solution?
How your solution solves the issue your team selected?
What is Minecraft Education?
Minecraft is an open-world game that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is your imagination. Minecraft Education differs from the regular video game version as it is aimed for use in the classroom and contains features such as classroom mode and assessment tools that enable powerful learning experiences.
What is C40 Cities?
C40 is a network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis. Mayors of C40 cities are deploying a science-based and collaborative climate action to help the world limit global heating to 1.5°C and build healthy, equitable and resilient communities.
What are SDGs?
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests. To learn more about SDGs, visit their homepage.
Get Started with Minecraft Education
Minecraft Education is available to all Los Angeles Unified students through their school student account.
Open the Minecraft Education app
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Sign in with your LAUSD Single Sign on (SSO) email and password
Download the latest version of Minecraft Education on iPad, MacBook, or Chromebook. For technical support, please contact Information Technology Services (ITS) at lausd.org/its