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Crafting Curriculum: Integrating Minecraft Eco Detectives in the Classroom

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Date:
October 16, 2025
Time:
3:45 pm - 5:45 pm

Empower your students to become digital conservationists using Minecraft Eco Detectives.

This interactive session explores how to use Minecraft as a powerful learning tool to teach and hone a range of capabilities, cross-curriculum priorities and curriculum outcomes. Participants will experience gameplay firsthand, learn how to facilitate student investigations, and discover how to link in-game challenges to real-world environmental issues.

Designed for both Minecraft beginners and confident users, the session will demonstrate how this platform can be used to foster inquiry, critical thinking, and environmental awareness in a digital context.

Price: $25 Non-Department Teacher, $20 Department Teacher or Pre-Service Teacher

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What’s included:

  1. Certificate for 2 hours of Professional Development
  2. Access to Minecraft Eco Detectives lesson plans and student worksheets
  3. Digital toolkit for classroom integration
  4. PD Delivery lesson plan to allow for peer-to-peer teaching post-session

Teaching Standards:

  1. APST 2.6: Information and Communication Technology
  2. APST 4.5: Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically
  3. APST 6.2: Engage in professional learning and improve practice
  4. APST 6.4: Apply professional learning to improve student learning

Curriculum Links:

  1. ACARA: Science (Scientific Inquiry Skills, Biological Sciences, Sustainability)
  2. ACARA: Technologies (Design Thinking, Digital Systems, and Problem-Solving)
  3. Cross-Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability
  4. General Capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, ICT Capability, Ethical Understanding

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About Zoos SA

Zoos SA is a not-for-profit conservation charity that exists to connect people with nature and save species from extinction.

Zoos SA acknowledges the Country on which we stand always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land and we pay our deepest respect and gratitude to Kaurna (Adelaide Zoo) and Ngarrindjeri (Monarto Safari Park) Elders, past, present and emerging.

We undertake critical conservation work throughout Australia and acknowledge the traditional custodians of these lands.

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Monarto Safari Park
63 Monarto Road
Monarto, SA 5254

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P: (08) 8267 3255
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