{"id":1517,"date":"2026-07-09T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:49:19","slug":"minecraft-in-the-classroom-the-challenge-the-workshops-and-the-free-lesson-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/2026\/07\/09\/minecraft-in-the-classroom-the-challenge-the-workshops-and-the-free-lesson-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft in the Classroom-The Challenge, the Workshops and the Free Lesson Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Tuesday I am thrilled to announce this year&#8217;s Minecraft Challenge &#8211; The Perfect Future City!\u00a0 Read on learn more details about this and how to find some awesome free lessons to go with Minecraft. Tracy Richards and I are also excited to let you know that we will be doing two &#8220;Minecraft in the Classroom&#8221; workshops on October 21st.\u00a0 Read on to learn more!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1518\" src=\"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/Minecraft-Challenge-2022-23-300x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/Minecraft-Challenge-2022-23-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/Minecraft-Challenge-2022-23.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 year is 4023 and our world looks nothing like it used to. Your challenge is to use Minecraft to design a city in the future. Will this city be on Earth, under the Earth, in an extreme biome, floating in space, underwater or on another planet? It is all up to you.\u00a0 Please watch the video below to learn more and visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/\">Learn71.ca \u200b<\/a>and click on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/minecraft-challenge\/\">Minecraft Challenge\u200b<\/a>\u00a0to find resources and more.\u200b<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/geg0MNWDwhs?si=Oli8bjcAZUhR4xnH\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Tuesday I am thrilled to announce this year&#8217;s Minecraft Challenge &#8211; The Perfect Future City!\u00a0 Read on learn more details about this and how to find some awesome free lessons to go with Minecraft. Tracy Richards and I are also excited to let you know that we will be doing two &#8220;Minecraft in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}