Final published version
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND
Final published version
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Digging Deep into Geosciences with Minecraft
AU - Hobbs, Laura Kate
AU - Stevens, Carly Joanne
AU - Hartley, Jacquelyn
PY - 2018/11
Y1 - 2018/11
N2 - Imagine yourself in a world where everything is made up of cubes. Colorful blocks represent rocks, trees, water, and animals. An erupting volcano produces blocks of flowing lava. A cave contains cubes of iron and gold ore.Sound familiar? This is the world of Minecraft, a hugely popular “open-world” construction-based video game in which players can move around freely and build virtual creations by “mining” and placing textured blocks with different properties. You can build elaborate cities and ships—even the Eiffel Tower or Tolkien’s Minas Morgul. You can also build a working computer that can perform calculations.But what if you could build your own Earth features and explore the real-life science behind them?This is what we do at Science Hunters, an outreach program at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.In the blocky world of Minecraft, we task players with building dinosaurs, rockets, volcanoes, caves, and even whole planets. From seeds to space, they can explore and relate the processes they interact with in the game to the real world around them.
AB - Imagine yourself in a world where everything is made up of cubes. Colorful blocks represent rocks, trees, water, and animals. An erupting volcano produces blocks of flowing lava. A cave contains cubes of iron and gold ore.Sound familiar? This is the world of Minecraft, a hugely popular “open-world” construction-based video game in which players can move around freely and build virtual creations by “mining” and placing textured blocks with different properties. You can build elaborate cities and ships—even the Eiffel Tower or Tolkien’s Minas Morgul. You can also build a working computer that can perform calculations.But what if you could build your own Earth features and explore the real-life science behind them?This is what we do at Science Hunters, an outreach program at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.In the blocky world of Minecraft, we task players with building dinosaurs, rockets, volcanoes, caves, and even whole planets. From seeds to space, they can explore and relate the processes they interact with in the game to the real world around them.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 99
SP - 24
EP - 29
JO - EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union
JF - EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union
SN - 0096-3941
IS - 11
ER -