Resources for teachers, parents and students using Minecraft to learn. Start with the Education Edition guide, browse free lesson plans, or read our parent and teacher safety section.
Minecraft has become one of the most widely used games in classrooms because it is, at heart, an open construction set. There is no single goal to win, which means a teacher can set the goal: build a scale model of a pyramid, program a robot to plant crops, model a water molecule, or measure the area of a floor by counting blocks. The same world that a child plays in at home becomes, with a clear task attached, a place to practise ratio, structured programming, atomic structure or historical research. This site collects practical, classroom-ready material for doing exactly that, written for teachers and parents rather than for marketing.
What it is, how it differs from Java and Bedrock, classroom features, Code Builder and the Chemistry pack.
Free, ready to use lesson plans across math, science, coding and history with objectives, steps and discussion questions.
Is Minecraft safe for kids, parental controls, server safety for minors and screen time guidance.
Problem solving, planning, collaboration and creativity, with how each shows up in play.
Schools tend to use Minecraft in one of two ways. The first is Minecraft Education Edition, a dedicated classroom version built on Bedrock that adds tools the standard game does not have: a teacher Classroom Mode for managing a group, Code Builder for block and text programming, a built-in Chemistry Resource Pack, a camera and portfolio for assessment, and non-player characters that can hold information. It is licensed per user through a school Microsoft 365 Education account. The second way is to use ordinary Java or Bedrock Minecraft in Creative mode, which still gives you unlimited blocks and a flat space to build on, and which is enough for many maths, geometry and building-based history lessons. Our lesson plans note which version each one needs, and several run in either.
Every lesson on this site follows the same honest structure so you can judge it quickly: a clear learning objective, the materials and version you need, a target grade range, numbered steps for running it, discussion questions to surface the thinking, and variations to stretch or simplify. They are starting points to adapt to your class, not scripts to follow word for word. The claims about what the game teaches are kept grounded; building does not automatically produce learning, but a well-framed task with a prediction to test and a reason to explain reliably does. Browse the lesson plans to begin, or read the parent and teacher safety guide first if you are setting Minecraft up for younger children.