Here are some case examples from different working groups with short descriptions. The game environment enables creative approaches to sustainable solutions, which can later be realized in the real world. The sustainability content-integrated language learning approach (CLIL) was combined with the ideas of multilingualism. Translanguaging was appreciated and supported. Besides their mother tongue, the learners used depending on the project case German, English and French. The mother tongues used were e.g. Finnish, Norwegian, German, French, Czech and Italian.
More group work descriptions coming soon.
Sustainable world science collaboration (spring 2023) with students from Finland, Germany and Czechia.
In this advanced study unit, Finnish, German and Czech high school students majoring in science worked to explore renewable energy sources and to build a functional, environmentally sustainable society.
Sustainable city (spring 2023) with students from Germany and Finland.
The students in this project participated in a workshop, where they researched sustainable and ecological city concepts. After that they worked together in international groups to build sustainable city structures.
SERASUM adventure mission (autumn 2023 – winter 2024) with students from Finland, France and Germany.
An immersive adventure in Minetest where the goal was to improve the sustainability of the game environment. The students discussed sustainable topics and worked together using self-made avatars. The BLOCKALOT Minetest environment was created by the LMZ (Landesmedienzentrum Baden-Wรผrttemberg).
Sustainable tourism (autumn 2023 – spring 2024) with students from Finland and Italy.
The students were tasked to research sustainable tourism followed by designing and building according to the research. They divided their work and collaborated asynchronously.
Sustainability fair (winter 2023-2024) with students from Finland, Germany and Norway.
The students prepared presentations in groups about sustainable themes and inventions. The presentations were transferred to a Minecraft world, where the groups then presented their work to others. After the product presentations, questions were asked and the topics were then discussed together.
Sustainable school (winter 2023 – spring 2024) with students from Finland and Italy.
The students decided together that they would build a sustainable school. The school includes different classrooms and a library. The project was done asynchronously in two teams.
Sustainable city solutions (autumn 2023 – spring 2024) with students from Germany and Finland.
In this project the students built a city while focusing on sustainability and ecological building. The students worked in groups, discussed ideas and built their ideas together.
Chemistry co-operations (March 2024) with students from Finland and Germany (two co-operation groups).
In March 2024 there were two chemistry co-operation groups simultaneously. The task of these chemistry projects was to search for information in the international student working groups and try to find a suitable method for chemical environmentally friendly energy production and to build it together in Minecraft.
Circular economy (autumn 2024) with students from Finland and Germany.
In this project students of chemistry worked together with students of social sciences. They were given the task of starting a business of their own, based on the philosophies of circular economy. They then built their businesses in Minecraft.
Server museum
You can visit and see selected worlds in our Minecraft server museum.
How to enter the museum:
- Access the project Minecraft server at vm1250.kaj.pouta.csc.fi. More information on how to access the project server here.
- Once you’re in the game and connected to the server, move to the museum. This can be done two ways:
- Walk through the museum portal found in the main hub of the server. The portal can be found under the large “Museum”-label, as shown in the picture above.
- Open the game text chat with T, type /museum in the chat and press Enter. This will teleport you to the museum.
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