Learning History with Minecraft

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This has been such a fun journey! We are wrapping up the pre-fire map soon. The kids have learned so much and some of the learning has sparked some side interests and conversations. For example, there is a disc that tells us that the Great Fire of London in 1666 did not stop the plague of 1665. So the kids were interested in, what is a plague? Also the great St Paul Cathedral has an amazing history and some interesting architecture conversations started with that. I am so not good with architecture so we had a great time looking in to some of those topics and learning things together. Here's a great website to get your started on learning about this fire together: http://www.fireoflondon.org.uk/

If you have yet to take the plunge on learning with your kids using a platform that they love (like Minecraft) I highly recommend it. I know it's not something everyone can do but maybe you can sit in the background and watch over their shoulder to see what they are doing in the map. Although, that comes with a motion sickness warning! Haha! I can't always watch my kids play because they are just all over the place. I just really hope that you have found the way to play and learn with your kids. We love it!

Of course, we do have quite a bit of fun during our learning. Check out more of our videos and learn along with us:

London Fire - Pre-fire Map - Episode 2


Episode 3


Episode 4


Episode 5


We have one more video to wrap up the pre-map and we will be starting the actual fire map soon. The kids are actually pretty nervous about the fire map too. They are not sure how it will work. Sadly, we know the end result is that the fire does not get stopped as quickly or as well as we would have all liked.

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