Flying to the Moon has never been easier for kids, now they can do it from home or school, all thanks to the popular educational video game Minecraft Education Artemis Mission.
Although reaching the Moon can also be child’s play, an alliance between Minecraft and NASA has enabled the development of a new digital tool.
“Minecraft Education Artemis Mission” video games allow children to play and learn; These are 2 games that were born from the enthusiasm that the return to the Moon caused among the youngest.
Laylah Bulman, Executive Producer of Minecraft, assures that “At Minecraft Education, we focus on how to combine the learning behind the game, it’s the easiest way for a child to approach the content and then explore “.
These children at their school are over the moon and not because they are distracted or not studying, quite the contrary.
Alexander Tillman, a student at the Academy for Innovative Education, says he “codes to go to the moon. The instructor helps me do what I need to do.
And if the first attempts fail, it’s not a problem, “the goal is to try to do the best possible and also to have fun”, explains student Julia Hernández.
“And also not to give up, as she said, that if we fail, we will start over and there we will learn what we did wrong and fix it,” said Ana Medina, another student who plays in Minecraft. Education Mission Artemis.
The first game “is how to build a rocket, talk to different NASA engineers and scientists, in the game you learn about Newton’s laws, then build it in the game and launch it.”
And the second video game, titled “Return to the Moon,” is “where they team up as astronauts on the Orion and use programming to navigate, to experience the daily life of an astronaut.”
Antonio Leiva, a student at the Academy for Innovative Education, says: “I really like space and it helps me to learn more about the planets, and how they got to the Moon, how they came up on the Moon and how they built the ship.”
There are no obstacles or borders. The game is available in 29 languages and it’s your imagination that counts.
“The game comes with an educational guide so parents can read what students are learning, and see if a parent wants to be an astronaut too, because they can play the game together.”