Minecraft Engineering Series:

Students use Minecraft to explore how engineers harness force and motion. Each course focuses on one of the six simple machines, with a final project combining them into complex machines. All courses are asynchronous, self-paced, and COPPA-compliant, delivered through Outschool.

Students design levers to lift, open, and move heavy blocks. They experiment with effort, load, and fulcrum placement to see how levers make work easier.
Skills: Mechanical advantage, balance, problem-solving. 

From carts to rotating devices, students explore how wheels and axles reduce friction and power motion. Projects include building vehicles and testing efficiency.
Skills: Friction reduction, rotation, transportation design. 

Students construct pulley systems for elevators, cranes, and drawbridges. They test fixed vs. moveable pulleys and calculate the tradeoff between force and distance.
Skills: Energy transfer, engineering design, efficiency. 

Minecraft tools like axes and blades become the focus as students experiment with wedges. Projects show how wedges split, cut, and secure materials.
Skills: Force concentration, tool design, applied STEM.