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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Minecraft Educational Simulation installation and about guide.

Welcome to the first of many Minecraft educational simulations. The goal of these simulations is to give you, the teacher, a set challenges in Minecraft for your students to compete in and learn through participating in these challenges. The challenges are designed to educate through examples and student reflection, they will be hard, and will require complex problem solving that will satisfying various areas of science, complex problem solving and mathematical skills. Some good examples of the challenges will be: survival with limited food supply, semi-complex( to the best of my abilities, heh) puzzle solving using math and pattern recognition, building challenges(building in certain ways, and certain must have features).
                The setup of the simulations will be easy, all you'll have to do is download the Minecraft Simulation file from here(link), next you'll need to place that file into your Minecraft saves folder.

  1. For windows:
    1. To locate the saves folder go to start
    2. then in the search box located at the bottom of the start menu type: "run"
    3. A new window should pull up called run
      1. seen here:
    4. type in the highlighted "%appdata%" ass seen above and hit "ok".
    5. a folder will open up with several more folders
    6. You'll want to go through the folders and find a folder called ".minecraft"
      1. seen here: 
      2. Open up this folder
      3. Once there you'll find minecrafts source files and important stuff, find the folder named saves and drag the downloaded folder into saves and BAM you're done. 
  2. for mac(once again I have a PC so lol, this should be interesting in fact I'll just link a nice well done guide for you
    1. Link
And bam you're done with installing, now you can enjoy the actually fruit of the simulation I made. As always  your friendly internet educational gamer Palacia signing out.


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