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Danish Government Puts ENTIRE Country on Minecraft to Assist Teachers

Geography lessons are virtualized: Danish government creates Minecraft version of ENTIRE country to help teachers



The department of mapping within the government recreated the entire country



Minecraft lesson plans for teachers were also developed to make education more accessible



Published: 18:06 EDT, 25 April 2014



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The entire country has been recreated by the Danish government in the well-known computer game Minecraft.



The first country to be fully transferred into the blocky Minecraft games The government hopes it will students have more fun learning. students.



It even has an array of lesson plans for teachers to guide them through the virtual version of their country.



The Ministry of the Environment in Denmark has created a Minecraft model of the country for players to explore.



The downloadable model consists of four billion blocks and requires one Terabyte of storage space.



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They can then explore different terrains, including forests as well as caves.



Players can also fly up in the air for birds-eye views of the landscape.



To construct towns and cities, players are given blocks and tools.



As players progress, they can earn advanced tools and building blocks from various materials.



The game was initially developed for the PC but now there are Xbox 360 and mobile versions available.



The model is made up of approximately 4000 billion bricks and takes approximately 1TB (1000 gigabytes) to download the entire country.



'We have constructed Denmark online in Minecraft, so that young people can plant their own forests and build riding school, a lake biogas plant, wind turbine, and so on,' said , said Kirsten Brosbol, Danish Minister for the Environment.
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"Imagination is the only limit."



"This is our method to create a connection between the digital and the natural worlds.'



It was created by Simon Kokkendorf, Thor Bjorn Nielsen and Geodatastyrelsen (the Danish mapping arm of the Danish government),



They took public information about the country ranging from elevation models to data about buildings and roads, and 'translated' it into Minecraft's signature bricks.



The navigation system was designed by the two in order to let visitors find their own neighborhood within the model.



They will also be able explore nature and landscapes as they appear in real life.



The Agency stated that you can "go for a stroll" in the countryside of Denmark. You can also view any area in Denmark in roughly the same way as Google Street View.



The Orestad school in Copenhagen has been testing the system for teaching geography and maths to students.



"In the past, the teacher would play the old map of Denmark in the classroom and let the students squabble over the names of the various regions of Denmark,' said Katrin Kristensen, a teacher at the Orestad school.



Future Danish schoolchildren and others will be able keep track of the game the animals and plants they've seen in nature.



"Now Denmark is available right there on the computers of children or tablets, advancing the aim of using digital tools in teaching.



"We have had positive experiences using Minecraft in teaching maths for instance.



We can stimulate learning even more with the'real Denmark" now available as an online game called Minecraft World.



"Students think it's much more fun when they are working on their own home street, their own home and other such things.'



The developers made one change to the game: they eliminated the possibility to use Dynamite to blow up certain areas.


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