By: Bogdan Oros and Adriana Ruiz

Goal

•Develop the Niagara Region as a Minecraft World ▫Hydrology, transportation, vegetation

•Promote it as a teaching tool •Teacher and Student Aid

Tasks/Objectives

•Define area and features•Create a prototype •Client Approval•Develop area in Minecraft•Documentation based on

process•Deliver it in schools and

online

Area of Opportunity•Resource for Teachers•New means of Delivery

▫Hook Students ▫Bleak delivery Methods

Demo

•St.Catharines

!!This is where the fun starts!!

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

References• http://

www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecraft-map-britain.html

• http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_Wiki• https://www.newsela.com/articles/minecraft-schools/id/3803/• http://

dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/teaching-and-learning-minecraft-liam-o%E2%80%99donnell

• http://www.videobabylon.ca/St-Catharines-Weddings.html• Shapefile Features

▫ Geogratis - https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic-information/free-data-geogratis/11042

▫ Open Data Niagara - http://www.niagararegion.ca/government/opendata/