Building Skills With Minecraft: Intro to Organization [template]
Building Skills With Minecraft is a home-based program that transforms playing Minecraft into an opportunity for developing executive functions and social and emotional learning skills. This program provides kids ages 8-15 who are struggling with learning challenges (including those affected by ADHD, autism, or other learning issues) with an opportunity to play Minecraft in a moderated environment.
Joining the Workshop Session
To join the live session, simply select the appropriate date and time below, then click on the Join Live Session button. If this is your child’s first Minecraft session, please make sure to view and follow our setup instructions by clicking the link below.
Test Template
Step 1: Getting Set up for the Minecraft Session
Please follow the below instructions and watch the following video below for a detailed walkthrough of how to join our Discord server and Minecraft game in order to participate in the sessions.
Step 2: How to Join Our Discord Server
Discord is a voice communications program so we can guide you step by step in the adventures we will embark on.
- To join click this link https://discord.gg/PssPVZW
- Choose a name and Click “Continue”
- If you have never made a Discord account before, click Register and enter an Email, Username and Password you will remember!
- Once you have created your account you are going to click the + in the top left corner of your screen.
- Click “Join A Server” and Paste our Link in the box: https://discord.gg/PssPVZW
- This should connect you to our Voice Server! Click the Learning Works Logo on the Left side and join the Learningworks Lobby by clicking on it and you are good to go!
Step 3: How to Launch and Log in to Minecraft
- If you do not already own Minecraft you will need to go to minecraft.net and purchase an account and click the download link!
- If you already do own Minecraft you will need to launch Minecraft from your Desktop.
- Once Minecraft is launched, click the “Multiplayer” button
- Now click the “Add Server” button
- Copy and paste this address into the “IP Address” field: server.learningworksforkids.com
- For server name, enter “Learning Works for Kids”
- Double click on the server to join!
Step 4: Using Discord
Please watch the video below for details on how to use the program Discord and make sure you can hear our gamer-guides.
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Info For Parents
Today's Activity: Organizing a Haunted Mansion
Welcome to Learning Works For Kids Organization Sessions!
This is a three-part course filled with live Minecraft activities set up by LearningWorks for kids to have fun and help practice your child’s Organization! We will be playing Minecraft together for an hour and relating the skills he is using in the game to situations and scenarios he or she can use in everyday life!
For this session, the theme is Introduction to Organization.
We will start by introducing what Organization is, asking some questions to the participants and getting the brain rolling!
Once the minds are going and we are all familiar with one another we will take it to the building area set up by the Learning Works For Kids gamer guides!
For today’s session each student will build their own haunted mansion in which organization of it is the main focus.
We will start by giving each child stone blocks and asking them to design the basic layout of their mansion that makes the most sense to them. As we go on we will provide items and talk about why they placed the items where they did and relate that to organizing layouts in their everyday life.
We will wrap up by talking about things they can do for homework.
What is Organization?
For more information about Organization, visit the Organization Page at LearningWorks for Kids.
Have more Questions feel free to contact us at live@learningworksforkids.com
Follow Up Activities
Just because the session is over doesn’t mean you can’t have fun and practice thinking skills with your kids on your own time! Listed below are some In and Out of Game activities related to today’s session that will keep your child entertained and thinking along the way!
Watch This – Organization Building Game!
Watch this Learning Works For Kids Let’s Play video about Organization in Portal Knights: https://youtu.be/5Xo-Nthhmyw
Talk to your child about how organizing (their room, backpack, locker) is the same thing as organizing homes and builds in minecraft.
Play Together – Survival Mode solo/team
Organizing in Minecraft has always been a major factor in keeping track of materials and items. Have your child open their old survival game and ask them how they have their home layout organized. Where are the chests? where are the furnaces? If they don’t have a Survival mode home already create one with them and talk about the layout and how it makes sense to them as they are building it.
