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Activities for learning Spanish using Minecraft

Where ever possible, students speak Spanish while working on these activities. The Spanish language Minecraft tutorials are a good resource of Minecraft-specific vocabulary.


 * Minecraft Wiki - Spanish

== Mi Casa Ideal ==

Students make "Mi Casa Ideal". They will make their own houses and label things in them - building materials, structures, contents, furniture.

SUBJECT: Spanish 1-2 GROUP SIZE: Large Group TIME: 4 x 45 minutes TYPE OF ACTIVITY: Student Activity TEACHING STRATEGY: Guided Discovery CONCEPTS: Vocabulary application ACADEMIC SKILLS: Word recognition

Learning outcomes
 * learn everyday items in a house and be able to memorize their vocab by living with it everyday
 * use Spanish to work on Mi Casa - discussion, problem-solving, vocabulary for working together
 * learn and use Minecraft-specific Spanish vocabulary
 * learn and use Spanish terminology for computers and information technology

Minecraft
 * in creative mode
 * use any material they want to build a house
 * use signs as well to label their items in their houses
 * know how to put blocks down
 * labels - put them down and the typing comes up automatically

Preparation
 * Spanish Area - create a big landscape in an area of the map. We then took fences and divided up 64 areas in the big area with a 7x7 block area. Each of these areas is then specified with a sign of a name of a student. So each student is given that amount of space to build their own ideal house (limits size of houses, focus directed on vocabulary-related objects). They can build up or down however they choose.


 * sample video of how the students will work on their projects


 * Spanish word lists for Minecraft furniture


 * Spanish word lists for building houses in Minecraft

Activity


 * review Spanish vocabulary for houses, furniture, building materials
 * review Minecraft skills, view tutorials and wiki in Spanish
 * build houses and label contents - each student completes their own house, but work in small groups in Spanish
 * make lists of new Spanish words - needed, discovered
 * visit houses of other students, get ideas for improvements
 * update your house - make additions, modifications
 * in Spanish, describe your house and the building process

Assessment
 * labels at least [number] items in the house
 * uses additional labels / vocabulary words for extra credit
 * participates in Spanish discussion during building
 * describes completed house using appropriate vocabulary words

Vocabulary lists
 * http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/list/317556

Tutorials
 * Minecraft: Building a Starting House (Minecraft Tutorial)
 * Furniture

Additional resources, development
 * advanced Minecraft skills - set up the Spanish Area, build examples of houses using variety of building techniques
 * activity tutorials - specific to class resources - server, map, transportation
 * Spanish 4 students with Minecraft skills and/or related Spanish vocabulary available to work with Spanish students

Learn more...
 * Minecraft Wiki - Spanish
 * tutorials in Spanish
 * Minecraft Spanish language forums
 * Spanish dictionaries
 * Spanish online magazines - houses, interior design