Minecraft Education is an engaging learning platform where students create their own worlds, explore immersive curriculum-based experiences, and discover creative ways to learn and demonstrate their understanding.
How to Log in to Minecraft Education:
Minecraft Education is on all school laptops and iPads. It should log you in automatically when you are at school but sometimes prompts a sign in. This is also the sign in to use if you are using Minecraft at home:
- Username = your school district email address. For students this is their student number@learn71.ca (ex. 123456@learn71.ca)
- Password is your school district password
Minecraft is available for free download here:
How to find lesson ideas, lesson plans and more…
Explore lesson plans, challenges and ideas on the Minecraft Education Website, or right inside of the game. Microsoft Teach in Copilot also allows you to create full lesson plans for any grade or subject that incorporate Minecraft and are aligned to our curriculum.
Minecraft Education Lesson Library – Here you can browse by subject or scroll down and search by keywords or click Advanced Search to refine your search.
Inside of the game:
Click on New and Featured to find newly created world lesson plans and challenges.
Click on Play and go to the Library to find lessons organized by subject or search for specific topics.
Create Lesson Plans in Teach AI in Copilot
Use Teach AI in the Minecraft section to quickly create customized lessons, activities and worlds based on your learning goals.
1️⃣Generate lesson ideas- Enter your topic grade level and goals
2️⃣Customize for your class – Adjust difficulty , subject area and BC Curriculum
3️⃣Create activities and worlds – Get step-by-step instructions, challenges and build ideas
4️⃣Support Inclusive learning- suggestions for differentiation and accessibility
How to find Copilot Teach Lesson Plans:
How to Host a World
Host a world for your class and invite them students to join and teach your students to create worlds and host them.
Click once on a pre-created world and click on Host.
or open your world, press the Esc key and click on the host symbol.
Share the join code with your students:
How to Join a Hosted World:
1️⃣Open Minecraft and click Play
2️⃣ Click on Join World 
3️⃣Input the code from your host and press Confirm
Some Worlds Worth Checking Out:
A Pacific Northwest Coast Experience – Designed in Coquitlam, students will speak to traditional indigenous knowledge keepers and help the village prepare for winter.
Manito Ahbee Aki – Travel back in time to the Anishinaabe culture in Manitobe before European contact.
Teaching Chemistry with Minecraft – Minecraft has unique chemistry features (Element Constructor and Compound Creator) that allow student to create compounds and explore chemical structure.
Professional Learning for Educators:
There are loads of ways to learn Minecraft and gets tips and ideas for how to use it with your classes.
Follow these easy Learn to Play videos.
Minecraft Teacher Academy – These are on-demand lessons to become Minecraft Teacher certified.
Open Minecraft Education and click on Play then click on the Library. Click on the How to Play box to open tutorials to learn right in the game.
Build Challenges:
Comox Valley School District has a Minecraft Build Challenge every year for students of any grade to enter: Comox Valley Schools Minecraft Challenge – Learn71
Minecraft has a fabulous collection of Build Challenges right in the game: click on Play, click on Library and then click on Build Challenges. There is something here for every class!
