build challenges

Engage your students' creativity and strengthen 21st century skills with these easy-to-implement activities for your classroom.


Featured Challenges

Check out these new and highlighted challenges:

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Building With Dinosaurs

Become a paleontologist! Uncover dino-blocks, then use them to reconstruct detailed dinosaur models.

    • Science
    • Animals
    • History
    Challenge

    Renewtopia

    This interactive build challenge teaches learners about sustainable energy sources.

      • Climate Science
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      Field Day

      Your challenge is to create an original sport and communicate the rules and gameplay mechanics through written instructions. What's your game?

        • Art and Design
        • Reading and Writing

        Create your own challenges with new toolkits

        Engage your students with our two new guides: the Minecraft Education Build Challenge JumpStart kit created to help educators easily implement existing Build Challenges or take your journey a step further with our Custom Build Challenge Toolkit which will walk through how to create your own challenge, layer elements of competition, and learn how to assess student learning outcomes through your program! 

        Download Jumpstart & Custom

        Build challenge jump start kit

        Reinvent your City Build Challenge

        Empower your classroom with Minecraft Education and C40's Schools Reinventing Cities program, featuring a Build Challenge Toolkit designed to educate and inspire students in actively contributing to climate action within their cities.

        Learn more
        A city skyline of tall towers sits below the text: Reinventing Cities

        ClassRoom Build Challenges

        Challenge

        Building With Dinosaurs

        Become a paleontologist! Uncover dino-blocks, then use them to reconstruct detailed dinosaur models.

          • Science
          • Animals
          • History
          Challenge

          Build Your Emotion

          Your challenge is to build something that expresses how you are feeling today.

            • Art and Design
            • Social and Emotional Health
            Challenge

            Community Landmark

            Work individually or in groups to research a local, state, or national landmark. Using the world provided, recreate this landmark within Minecraft.

              • History
              Challenge

              Creature Crafter

              Learn about the life and legacy of Mary Shelley, the brilliant mind behind Frankenstein and craft your own fantastical creature.

                • Art and Design
                • Reading and Writing
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                Vexillology 101

                Use this Minecraft world to learn how to craft banners and begin a conversation about elements and principles of design.

                  • Art and Design
                  • History
                  Challenge

                  Patterns, Repetition, Rhythm

                  Consider how patterns affect our daily lives then use Minecraft to create their own repeating pattern.

                    • Art and Design