{"id":10997,"date":"2018-01-22T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/313464"},"modified":"2018-01-22T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T22:14:00","slug":"minecraft-education-edition-introduces-chemistry-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/22\/minecraft-education-edition-introduces-chemistry-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft: Education Edition introduces chemistry update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/education.minecraft.net\/?p=1105845\">announced\u00a0the introduction<\/a>\u00a0of chemistry into <em>Minecraft: Education Edition<\/em>, where concepts like states of matter and structures of atoms can be accessible through the use of new crafting tools designed to explain different chemistry concepts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Educators are\u00a0already using <em>Minecraft: Education Edition<\/em> to teach concepts like coding, the water cycle, photosynthesis and renewable energy. The addition of chemistry in <em>Minecraft<\/em> allows for teachers to introduce chemistry concepts without the cost of lab equipment, making the subject more accessible to their students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBringing chemistry to <em>Minecraft<\/em> not only helps spark interest in STEM, but also helps educators engage students in the scientific process, reinforcing creative problem solving and engaging experiments,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/education.minecraft.net\/?p=1105845\">explains<\/a>\u00a0<em>Minecraft<\/em>\u00a0education director\u00a0Neal Manegold. \u201cConcepts like states of matter, structure of atoms and chemical reactions become accessible in Minecraft\u00a0through the immersive world and these brand-new tools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The chemistry update is set to launch in February for all <em>Minecraft: Education Edition<\/em> customers and there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/education.minecraft.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ChemistryLab_Journal.pdf\">already\u00a0a\u00a0lab journal<\/a> for teachers\u00a0looking to incorporate the program into their curriculum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u00a0announced\u00a0the introduction\u00a0of chemistry into Minecraft: Education Edition, where concepts like states of matter and structures of atoms can be accessible through the use of new crafting tools designed to explain different chemistry concepts.\u00a0 Educators are\u00a0already using Minecraft: Education Edition to teach concepts like coding, the water cycle, photosynthesis and renewable energy. The addition of chemistry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}