T4L Kids Issue 14

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Design an airport of the future in Minecraft! Is it Sustainable? is it Connected?

Design an airport of the future in Minecraft!

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Linda Lazenby

EDITOR

Yvette Poshoglian

CONTRIBUTORS

Sandy Phillips

Joachim Cohen

Aditi Verma

Hey there T4L kids!

Airports are exciting places! Can you imagine designing a new airport to fly in and out of? Now imagine building a whole city around the new airport. Your challenge in this issue is to design a whole airport precinct in Minecraft Education while thinking about how you keep it all connected and

green. Grab a team, take the challenge and create an airport of the future for your community! Linda

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this magazine was created, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. Thank you to Moonbi Public School for creating this Acknowledgement in Minecraft – could you include one in your entry?

Team chalLenge: design an airport of the future

Could you design a brand-new airport and a new city around it in Minecraft? Grab a team and build a green and sustainable airport that connects and links to the wider community.

Grab a team and watch the Totally Tech video

Think outside the ‘block’ – what new ideas could you bring to an airport design using Minecraft?

Build your airport in Minecraft Education and capture it in a short video

No matter how big or small create something that will work for your community!

Are you in a western Sydney school?

Did you know that there is a new airport coming to western Sydney?

Why not use the new Western Sydney International Airport, which will be known as Nancy-Bird Walton Airport, as inspiration?

Check out the Western Sydney International Airport website for more information

Visit their Experience Centre to learn more

Share your design with us and we’ll pass it along to the Experience Centre 1

BRAINSTORM

• What does a futuristic airport look like?

• What features in your design could make it greener?

• How will the buildings and spaces be used?

• What would the surrounding area and city look like?

2

TOP TIPS

• Use the design thinking model on page 4 to plan your design

• Make sure you explain the elements of your design in your entry

• Explain how your airport is green and connected

• Does your idea come to life in Minecraft?

• Make your pitch as engaging as possible to stand out from the pack!

Designing an airport and its surRounds!

STEPS TO SUCCESS

2

RESEARCH

• What does your airport need?

• What should you build around it?

• Is your idea green and sustainable?

• How will it connect to the community?

4 UPSKILL

• Use this magazine to learn or investigate new skills to do more in Minecraft Education!

• Can you make it move with Redstone?

• Can you code an agent to assist your build?

1

DEFINE YOUR VISION

• What are the needs of the new airport and its community?

• Plan your solution together

• How will it work in Minecraft Education ?

3

PLAN

• Brainstorm the structures and infrastructure

• Consider how it will grow into the future

• Focus on innovation and new ideas

5

BUILD

• Prototype and build in Minecraft

• Add boards and posters to explain your design

• Use Non-Player-Characters (NPCs) to guide the experience

6

TEST AND TRIAL

• Get feedback on your prototype from other students, a teacher, a community member or expert

• Use feedback to modify and retest

• Now finalise your airport precinct –is it ready?

7

SHARE

• Has your team agreed that your design is complete?

• Complete a screen recording providing a guided tour of your creation

• Share your design with your community and don’t forget to share it with us!

Get T ing started with Minecraft Education

NSW public schools have access to Minecraft Education. This powerful edition of Minecraft is specifically designed for students.

Why is Minecraft Education such a great design tool?

Minecraft Education has added features that allow you to create in the Minecraft universe. You can also:

Use NPCs (non-player-characters) to provide direction in your world

Create posters, boards and slates to convey information

Use the Code Builder to supercharge your building process

Engineer, power and make your world interactive with Redstone mechanics

How do I access it?

You must get your teacher to sign you up before accessing Minecraft Education

Download Minecraft Education (Win 10, Chromebook iPadOS or Mac) or your teacher will ask to have it installed by your ICT Coordinator on School Devices

Then simply login with your @education.nsw.gov.au email address

You can learn more about Minecraft Education on this website

Learn more! (P.S. – tell your teachers)

Did you know there is a course you can do anytime, anywhere?

Tell your teacher about these great educator resources

Keen to collaborate? Here are some instructions for your teacher to allow you to work in a group

Top teacher tips

Mr MerRick is a teacher who loves Minecraft! Here are his tips to get started with your design.

Mr Mer R ick says:

When working on a large project like this it is a really good idea to follow the design process – the steps to success model (check out page 4). This will give you a really clear plan for what you want to achieve and how to get there. Here are my top tips on approaching this challenge: 1

RESEARCH

What do existing airports look like? What is cutting edge in airport technology?

2 DESIGN

Get your friends together and make some groups, give people jobs or roles. Draw some sketches, or storyboards showing the key elements of your design.

3

PRODUCE

This is where the bulk of the work gets done. Create a flat world and share your join code with your friends and get building! 4

EVALUATE

The last step is also the most important. Look at your final result and compare it to your initial designs. Be honest with yourself and your friends. Did you achieve what you set out to do? If not, why? What went wrong? What could you change? Gre

Airports and airlines around the world are trialling and testing new tech to make sure they are cleaner and greener. Some of these ideas include:

• Green aviation fuel

• Electric aircraft

• Carbon offsets

• Recycled luggage tags

Top student tips

Here’s some tips from a Year 5 clas S of Minecraft users on how they’re approaching the airport design chal L enge. Could you use some of these great gre

ideas below in your design?

Instead of using water continuously, recycling and reusing water will make the airport more sustainable.

The airline industry needs to work on building planes that don’t emit too much CO2.

Recycle components that don’t affect safety, maybe a percentage of the airport could be built from recycled materials.

Solar powered and renewable energy is going to be needed.

- Ian

- Yusuf

- Jayden

- Emma

EX p Lo RE, LEAR n ,

Maybe you’re an expert. Maybe you’re about everything in Minecraft Education. you started and go beyond.

EX p Lo RE

Get started with these tutorials

Get started with tutorial world

How to move in Minecraft

Next steps with tutorials

How to play tutorials in Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education movement tutorial

Using an iPad? Read this resource – touch controls for Minecraft Education

CREATE, SHARE!

you’re a beginner. Whatever you need, there’s a tutorial for just Education. Below are links to videos and other resources to get

Interact with your world

Interact with buttons, levers, doors

Explore the power of code in M:E e

Keep track of your design with this video guidance.

LEAR

Minecraft keyboard & mouse controls

Graphical coding with blocks

Coding with Python

CREATE

p ower your world with care

In the real world we can save energy and make our buildings more sustainable. Could you make better resource choices in your airport precinct plans? You can save items in your chest or trade stored content for other resources – this could make it greener and better for your world. Get more sustainability ideas in Minecraft here.

Build a system within Minecraft

Learn about Redstone basics

Creating and sharing information and ideas in Minecraft Education

M:EE boards, slates and posters

Let your NPC deliver your message

Share your idea with us

Watch this Totally Tech video to get ideas and plan your design. Once you’ve built your world, you’ll need to create a screen recording or film to get your entry in to T4L Kids. Don’t forget to justify your design and tell everyone how your design is sustainable and connects to your community!

watch this video for ideas

Capture and share

Share your world using the ideas below.

Camera, portfolio and book and quill

SHARE

Learn how to record your screen

Learn from the experts!

We spoke to people and experts in our local community. Could you incorporate

AB o RIGI n AL E n GAGEME n T MA n AGER

During the early earthworks we salvaged 40,000 artefacts. These will tell the story of this place. First Nations people have been involved in the design of the new airport.

MAYo R

This is going to be an international gateway...people from all over the world are going to land in Liverpool.

TRAVEL lER

Parking that’s close to the airport terminals is important to me!

their ideas, or could you talk to experts in your local community?

RESIDE n T

I want lots of green space to walk my dog in my new community near the airport.

STRATEGIC p LA nn ER

A connected airport isn’t one place in the middle of nowhere. You need diverse transport options to link the airport to the outside world.

SUSTAI n ABILITY EX p ERT

Wherever we’re emitting carbon, we need to absorb carbon – that’s why airports today have to investigate ways to be sustainable.

AIR po RT MA n AGER

It’s so much more than your way to travel... it’s an employment hub, a retail centre, you’ve got restaurants and cafes. Think about freight and cargo being delivered too.

nancy-Bird Walton: Australian aviation pioneEr

DID Yo U K no W?

The new airport in western Sydney is named after aviation pioneer Nancy-Bird Walton. It will be known as Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport Nancy-Bird Walton (1915-2009) earned her commercial pilot’s licence at the age of just 19. She learned to fly under the guidance of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and was the youngest Australian woman to obtain a pilot’s licence at the time.

A n GEL o F THE o UTBACK

She became known as the ‘angel of the outback’ after helping set up the Royal Far West Children’s Health Scheme – a flying medical service which is now known as the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. Nancy-Bird Walton used her own Gipsy Moth plane as an air ambulance. She went on to fly commercial planes across the world. After World War II broke out, she returned to Australia to train women in flight skills.

AWARDS A n D REC o G n ITI on

Walton went on to create the Australian Women Pilots Association and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1966. She was declared an Australian National Treasure in 1997, an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2000 and was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2001.

C o ULD Yo U ACK no WLEDGE n A n CY-BIRD WALT on