Can you please help us? 'Room with a View 2015'

Auroa Primary Schools Senior Block: as modelled in Minecraft

Today in class is the second day back from Term Three for 2015.  Our students have just started one of our learning projects for Mathematics as part of Geometry.

We are looking at mapping to scale, with a few directions thrown in for good measure.  As part of this task we are producing a birds-eye-view map of our classroom.

This is all very standard but to make the task a little challenging we are building our own classroom to scale in Minecraft.   Where we are looking to take it to the next level is to create a scale map of your classroom - a place we've probably never been too.

When we are looking for your co-operation is with the details of your classroom.

R3 Interior

If students from Room Three can contact you and email or leave a comment on your class blog that would be amazing.   We have some specific questions that we are looking at using to build our maps and our virtual maps - if you could help either leave a comment here or email Mr Webb (mwebb@auroa.school.nz).  Once we've done that our students will start processing the information and creating two dimensional and then three dimensional models of your classroom and we'll see how close that we can get.

This is going to allow us to test our knowledge of Geometry, look at our questioning, allow us to think critically and of course relate to others.

If you are in the Northern Hemisphere and your students are on a break you can still help! Thank you all so much in advance, we really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate!