Index

A

Activator rails, 15

Air resistance, 69

A key, 12

All Aboard lab, 30

Amplitude, 59

Analytical skills, 16

Anode (battery), 106

Aristotle, on gravity, 37

Atmosphere, layers of, 72

Attraction of opposites, 77

Automated Egg Collector, 102

B

Bates, Beth (aka Sqaishey Quack), 17

Bathtub Submarine, 130

Batteries

building, 104

parts of, 106

Beacons, 52

Bedrock, 82

Biomes, Weathering, 74

Blocks, 10, 12

command, 14, 15, 33, 34, 114

note, 14, 15, 26, 28, 33, 34

observer, 13

redstone, 13

supporting STEMlearning, 13

Bone block, for making fossils, 96

Build a Battery lab, 104

Build a Crystal Castle, 56

Build a Rube Goldberg Machine, 122

Build a Wave Pool, 58

Button, 13

C

Cardinal directions, finding, 46, 48

Catch a Wave lab, 58

Cathode (battery), 106

Chain command blocks, 114

Chain Reaction Contraption lab, 122

Circuits, 13, 14

Clarke, Adam (aka Wizard Keen), 20

Clay Saturn, 127

Climate, defined, 72

Closed Terrarium, 110

Clouds, 72

Code writing, 21

Code Your Commands lab, 118

Color waves, 58

Command blocks, 14, 15, 33, 34, 114

Commands, 120

Communication strategies, 16

Comparators, 14

Condensation, 72, 73

Console version ofMinecraft, 10, 12

Construct a Dam, 60

Construct a Model of Earth’s Interior with TNT, 84

Controls, how to use, 12

Create a Minecraft Martian Colony, 66

Create an Ecosystem lab, 108

Creative mode

Automated Egg Collector, 102

Build a Crystal Castle, 56

Closed Terrarium, 110

Commands, 120

Construct a Dam, 60

Construct a Model of Earth’s Interior with TNT, 84

Construct Spectrum Beacons, 52

description of, 12

Design and Build a Solar System, 128

Dinosaur Creative Build, 96

Elytra Flight, 70

Exploding Volcano, 92

Fireworks Show, 78

Gravity in Minecraft, 38

Hopper Battery, 107

Map Maker, 48

Oceanography Station, 132

Quantum Teleporters, 114

Rail System, 32

Redstone Pistons, 42

Rube Goldberg Meets Redstone, 124

Science Laboratory, 26

Weathering Biomes, 74

Creative thinking skills, 16

Crest, 59

Critical thinking skills, 16

Crystal Castle, building, 56

Crystal Making, 55

Crystals lab, 54

Custom Clouds, 73

D

Dam, constructing, 60

Daylight sensors, 13, 26, 27

Design and Build a Solar System, 128

Detector rails, 15

Dinosaur Creative Build, 96

Dinosaur Dig, 95

Dinosaur fossils, 94

Direct Connect, 11

Dispensers, 14, 15

D key, 12

Doors, 14

Drag (air resistance), 69

Droppers, 14, 15

E

Earth’s interior, constructing model of, 84

Egg containers, 100

Egg Drop Challenge, 101

Egg Farm lab, 100

Electrolyte (battery), 106

Electromagnetism, 86

Elytra, 68

Elytra Flight, 70

Endothermic reactions, 50, 91

Energy, 31

Epsom salt, 54, 55

Erupting Volcano, 91

Exploding Volcano, 92

Explosions Everywhere lab, 76

F

Family Activities

Bathtub Submarine, 130

Build a Battery, 104

Build a Rube Goldberg Machine, 122

Build a Wave Pool, 58

Clay Saturn, 127

Crystal Making, 55

Custom Clouds, 73

Dinosaur Dig, 95

Egg Drop Challenge, 101

Electromagnetism, 86

Erupting Volcano, 91

Finding North, 46

Glowing Goo, 51

Homemade Zipline, 69

Hydraulic Pistons, 41

Make a Roller Coaster, 30

Milk and Soap Color Bursts, 77

Minecraft for, 6

Model Mars Habitat, 65

Paper Coding Game, 118

Shifting Perspectives, 113

Soil Horizons Cake, 82

Solar Telescope, 24

Terrarium, 108

Testing the Effects of Gravity, 36

Fence gates, 14, 15

Field journals, 8

Finding North, 46

Fireworks Show, 78

Fossils, dinosaur, 94

Frequency, 59

Friction, 69

G

Galileo, on gravity, 37, 39

Gates, 14

Glowing Goo, 51

Gravity Impact lab, 36

Gravity in Minecraft, 38

H

Homemade Zipline, 69

Hopper Battery, 107

Hoppers, 14, 15

Horizons, soil, 82, 83

Hydraulic Pistons, 41

I

Iron Age lab, 86

J

Jeb trap, 42

Journaling, 8

K

Kinetic energy, 31

Kruger, Johan (akaDragnoz), 21

L

Labs, how to use, 7

LAN (local area network), 11

Land of the Giants lab, 94

Lava, 92

Law of fluid pressure, 40

Layers of the Earth lab, 82

Let There Be Light lab, 50

Lever, 13

Licenses, for purchasing Minecraft, 10

Lift, 69

Local area network (LAN), 11

M

Magma, 91

Magnetic field, 87

Magnets, 86, 87, 88

Make a Roller Coaster, 30

Map Maker lab, 46

Mars, conditions on, 64

Mars Habitat, Model, 65

Mars Space Station lab, 64

Martian Colony, creating, 66

Mechanisms, 14, 15

Milk and Soap Color Bursts, 77

Minecart rails, 15

Minecraft

blocks and gadgets in, 13

careers in, 16

controls in, 12

experts in, 17

how to play, 10

newsletter, 16

overview of, 10

rails in, 15

skills acquired from, 16

for STEM learning, 6

Minecraft Play

Automated Egg Collector, 102

Build a Crystal Castle, 56

Closed Terrarium, 110

Commands, 120

Construct a Dam, 60

Construct a Model of Earth’sInterior with TNT, 84

Construct Spectrum Beacons, 52

Create a Minecraft Martian Colony, 66

Design and Build a Solar System, 128

Dinosaur Creative Build, 96

Elytra Flight, 70

Exploding Volcano, 92

Fireworks Show, 78

Gravity in Minecraft, 38

Hopper Battery, 107

Map Maker, 48

Oceanography Station, 132

Quantum Teleporters, 114

Rail System, 32

Redstone Pistons, 42

Relive the Iron Age, 88

Rube Goldberg Meets Redstone, 124

Science Laboratory, 26

Weathering Biomes, 74

Minecraft Realms, 11

Mnemonics, 52

Mobs, 10

Model Mars Habitat, 65

Monsters, 10, 11, 12, 14

Monster traps, 14

Mouse, use of, 12

Multiplayer mode, 11

N

Newsletter, Minecraft, 16

Non-Newtonian fluid, 50

North, finding, 46

Note blocks, 14, 15, 26, 28, 33, 34

O

Observer blocks, 13

Oceanography Station, 132

Oersted’s law, 87

Ørsted, Hans Christian, 87

P

Packaging materials, 100

Paper Coding Game, 118

Pascal, Blaise, 40

Pascal’s principle, 40

Phosphors, 50

Photons, 113

Pickaxe, 10, 12

Pistons, 14, 15

Pistons lab, 40

Planets, in solar system, 126

Pocket Edition, 10, 12

Pocket Solar System lab, 126

Potential energy, 31

Powered rails, 15

Power sources, 13

Power supply, 14

Power transmission, 14

Pressure plate, 13

Problem solving skills, 16, 21

Programming, 118

Public Minecraft server, 11

Q

Quacktopia server, 17

Quanta, 113

Quantum Physics lab, 112

Quantum teleportation, 112

Quantum Teleporters, 114

R

Radio waves, 58

Rails, 15

Rail System, 32

Rainbows, 50, 52

Realms, 11

Redstone, 13, 14

in Rube Goldberg Meets Redstone, 124

Redstone blocks, 13

Redstone dust, 13, 14

Redstone Laboratory lab, 24

Redstone lamps, 14, 15

Redstone Pistons, 42

Redstone torches, 13

Reid, Stephen, 18

Relive the Iron Age, 88

Repeaters, 14

Repeating command blocks, 114

Right-click button, 12

Roller coaster, 30

Roy G. Biv mnemonic, 52, 53

Rube Goldberg machines, 122

Rube Goldberg Meets Redstone, 124

S

Saturn, 126

Science field journals, 8

Science Laboratory, 26

Shifting Perspectives, 113

Single player mode, 11

Sketchnoting, 8

S key, 12

Skill set, Minecraft, 16

experts’ stories about, 17

Soft skills, 16

Soil Horizons Cake, 82

Soil scientists, 82

Soil types, 82

Solar system, 126

Solar Telescope, 24

Spectrum beacons, 52

STEM classroom standards, Lab connections to, 138

STEM learning

blocks supporting, 13

Minecraft for, 6

Submarine, Bathtub, 130

Sun, safe viewing of, 25

Survival mode

Automated Egg Collector, 102

Commands, 120

Create a Minecraft Martian Colony, 66

description of, 11

Elytra Flight, 70

Relive the Iron Age, 88

Switches, 13

T

Teamwork

Minecraft encouraging, 6

in multiplayer mode, 11

Templecraft, 20

Terrariums, 108

Testing the Effects of Gravity, 36

3D movie glasses, 112, 113

TNT

for constructing model of Earth’sinterior, 84

in Exploding Volcano, 92

Trackpad, 12

Transmitters, 14

Trapdoors, 14, 15

Trapped chest, 13

Trip wire, 13

Trough, 59

U

Under the Sea lab, 130

Unofficial Minecraft Lab for Kids, The, 6

Unpowered rails, 15

V

Variables, 77

Visual journaling, 8

Volcano lab, 90

Volta, Alessandro, 106

W

Water vapor, 72, 73, 75

Water waves, 58

Wavelength, 59

Wave Pool, building, 58

Waves, 58, 59

We Are the Rangers, 21

Weather, influences on, 72

Weathering Biomes, 74

Weather Watcher lab, 72

W key, 12

Wonder Quest, 21

Z

Zimmer, Garrett, 19

Zipline, Homemade, 69

Zipline lab, 68