The Three-Body Problem Lesson Plan

Game: Minecraft Physics

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

Students will creatively use visual technology to engage with and expand upon the themes of the text.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.6 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.5 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6

Structure:

For this activity, the teacher should guide break students up into groups of 4-5 people, then get them on a computer that has the Minecraft video game loaded and ready on it. He/she should then explain that the student groups are going to be using Minecraft to build a model of "the three-body problem" which can be used to teach physics concepts to other...