Minecraft Challenge Sharing

Collaborating in Minecraft

This week, we finished up our Minecraft projects for the City of Calgary Level Up Challenge! Students worked alone or with a partner to build something that honours the Indigenous history and importance of the land where Fort Calgary stands. To see more details about the purpose of this activity, click here. 

Shots of our planning sheets and explanations

Here are some pictures of us building in Minecraft:

Helping out our teammates

One partner building and one script-writing

Students presented their designs to the class and we voted on our favourite. The top four teams were submitted to the Minecraft Committee (Ms Elder, Mr Turner, Ms Lacour). The Committee chose the winner using the rubric the city provided. The winning team from our class was M and V! Congrats!!! Here is a picture of their design: 

We also visited Fort Calgary on Thursday on a Community Walk. We took part in the IndigiTrail, which is a series of trivia questions to show what we know about the Indigenous history of this area, and help us learn more. Students really enjoyed this interactive tool and touring the grounds in small groups. We had a debriefing after the trivia where we shared the answers we knew (like, Why is Fort Calgary located in this area? and What are the four Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy? and How do you say 'hello' in the Treaty 7 languages? and What do the Blackfoot people call Calgary?). We also shared new learning. 

The Treaty 7 trivia trail is available through the IndigiTrail app. I'd highly recommend visiting the Fort and doing it as a family. For details, click here. 

While there, we saw a new installation next to the statue of MacLeod, which honours the Indigenous history of this place. Click here to read the article we read in class. We had a very powerful conversation about why these new signs are important. Try talking with your child about this. 

Visiting the Col MacLeod statue