Skills Miner STEM games
Our award-winning games help young people discover their engineering skills through problem solving challenges in Minecraft aligned to the National Curriculums.
Skills Miner Introductions
Choose a game to play...
Constructing an Aeroplane
Learn about the materials used to make vital parts of an aeroplane.
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Making Sustainable Fuel
Learn about different fuels and the importance of sustainability.
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Designing future aircraft
Learn about aircraft design and how to make an aircraft that is greener and more efficient
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Build your own Vertical Farm
We welcome teachers from across the UK to join us and be part
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Grow your own Vertical Farm
Grow your own crops in the Vertical Farm and see how new technology can support more sustainable food production
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Make your home energy efficient
Take the challenge and make your Minecraft home as energy efficient as possible
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Need some support
on our games or using minecraft
Visit our walkthrough area to get support on using Minecraft and also a video walkthrough of every one of our games. See how to play the games with advice from the people who made them!
Real classrooms, real results.
“I think it’s really fun! It’s a very cool way of learning new information."
9 year old student
student
Proven high educational quality
Our games are linked to all UK National Curriculums
so they can be used in confidence to support student learning
Each Skills Miner Game includes Teacher Notes and Resources linked to each of the National Curriculums, Gattsby Career Benchmarks, the Skills Builder Framework & the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Skills Miner and Online Safety
safe gaming experiences to explore problems solving and careers in Engineering
Our Skills Miner games have been designed with online safety in mind:
- Produced in the Education version of Minecraft where online safety is promoted and activity stays within the software to protect students from harm
- Students will play the games without sharing any personal or identifying information
- Students do not communicate with each other within the games reducing the risk of cyberbullying
- We do not track cookies or analytics within the games.
- We provide advice on this site about keeping students safe
