Redstone Academy: Ancient Egypt and Minecraft

We are finishing up a unit study on Ancient Egypt.  To go along with our own activities, we purchased an Minecraft class on our favorite homeschool Minecraft server.  It's called "Build Like an Egyptian."

So, the kids built all sorts of Minecraft models of Ancient Egyptian pyramids and temples and the sphinx.  It was awesome.



Also, there was not just one, but two books in Connor's favorite non-fiction history series about Ancient Egypt.  Connor loves these You Wouldn't Want to be... books.

(We also read You Wouldn't Want to be an Aztec Sacrifice and there are tons more that we need to get on all sorts of subjects.)

We did several other Minecraft classes on homeschool servers this year.  Connor completed a course on the history of alchemy when we were doing our medieval castle unit, and he built several different types of castles.  We also did units on Advent and Easter on the Christian Homeschool server.  Connor did a class based on Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis.  There are additional classes based on other books in the Chronicles of Narnia series, but that was the one that he picked.

Then, because the Great Pyramid at Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that is still standing, Connor got really interested in the other six.  So, we started studying those, and we ended up making our own server (which Connor named SWOTW, for Seven Wonders of the World) and we built the Lighthouse at Alexandria.  We'll get around to building the others soon, I imagine.

And then we discovered that there are Seven Wonders of the Modern World, and so we had to look all of those up.  The Hoover Dam is one of them.  This is the way that we homeschool sometimes.  We learn about whatever interests the boys when they have interests, and when we exhaust them, I find the next subject for them and see where it takes us.