Play our Minecraft Education world for the chance to win a £250 sustainability grant
The Crown Estate's Minecraft Education world and accompanying lesson plans for ages 7‑11 and 11‑14 is designed to help grow your students' knowledge and skills around climate change and the natural environment through exciting game-based learning.
Why try the world?
The Conservation Quest at Windsor Great Park world contains four immersive 'quests' and accompanying teacher-designed resources, which bring national curriculum topics from science and geography to life, including:
- Food chains, webs and ecosystems
- Weather and climate
- The water cycle
- How organisms affect (and are affected by) their environment
- The use of natural resources
- How human and physical processes influence landscapes
- The production of carbon dioxide by humans, and impact on the climate.
By entering this competition, your class has the chance to win a £250 sustainability grant to invest into their own project ideas around conservation, biodiversity, and nature recovery within their school or local community.
How to enter:
Step one
Download The Conservation Quest at Windsor Great Park World.
Download The WorldStep two
Choose one of the four 'quests' within the world - each has a ready-made accompanying lesson plan and resources.
Explore The ResourcesStep three
Deliver the lesson and ask student teams to complete our simple competition entry form.
Download The Entry FormStep four
Submit your student entry forms online.
Submit Student Forms
This competition, promoted by Hopscotch Consulting Ltd on behalf of The Crown Estate, is open to all secondary and primary schools in the United Kingdom from Thursday 1st February until Thursday 21st March 2024 at 23:59.
Deadline now extended to Thursday 28th March, 2024.
All entries will be put into a prize draw, and our education specialists Hopscotch Consulting UK will be picking the winners over the Easter holiday. The winning schools will be announced on 22 April, to mark Earth Day.
Entries must be received no later than 23:59 on 28th March.
Need help?
If you have any problems submitting an entry, please contact us by email.