Key message
The NSW Department of Education provides access to Minecraft Education Edition to all NSW government schools.
This teacher's guide to Minecraft Education Edition includes all the links you need to get your class set up and provides links to guides on how to use the software effectively.
Curriculum and syllabus links
NSW Syllabus outcomes
English S3
- EN3-7C Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
English S4
- EN4-2A effectively uses a widening range of processes, skills, strategies and knowledge for responding to and composing texts in different media and technologies
- EN4-5C Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information, ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts
English S5
- EN5-2A effectively uses and critically assesses a wide range of processes, skills, strategies and knowledge for responding to and composing a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
- EN5-5C Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and increasingly complex ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts in a range of contexts
Technology S4
- TE4-2DP Plans and manages the production of designed solutions
PDHPE S3
- PD3-9 Applies and adapts self-management skills to respond to personal and group situations
- PD3-10 Selects and uses interpersonal skills to interact respectfully with others to promote inclusion and build connections
History S4
- HT4-2 Describes major periods of historical time and sequences events, people and societies from the past
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
English S3
- ACELY1704 Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience
- ACELY171 Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts
- ACELY1714 Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate purpose and audience
- ACELY1797 Use a range of software including word processing programs with fluency to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements
English S4
- ACELY1725 Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual and audio features to convey information and ideas
- ACELY1728 Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to confidently create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts
English S5
- ACELT1644 Create imaginative texts that make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts
Design and Technologies S3
- ACTDEP025 Generate, develop and communicate design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques
- ACTDEP028 Develop project plans that include consideration of resources when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively
Design and Technologies S4
- ACTDEK034 Analyse ways to produce designed solutions through selecting and combining characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment
- ACTDEP036 Generate, develop, test and communicate design ideas, plans and processes for various audiences using appropriate technical terms and technologies including graphical representation techniques
- ACTDEP039 Use project management processes when working individually and collaboratively to coordinate production of designed solutions
Health and Physical Education S3
- ACPPS055 Practise skills to establish and manage relationships