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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
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Constructing an Aeroplane

Constructing an Aeroplane

Learn about the materials used to make vital parts of an aeroplane.

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Coding the Cockpit

Coding the Cockpit

Learn about emergency lighting and landing gear.

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Making Sustainable Fuel

Making Sustainable Fuel

Learn about different fuels and the importance of sustainability.

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Designing future aircraft skills miner

Designing future aircraft

Learn about aircraft design and how to make an aircraft that is greener and more efficient

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Fix the Vertical Farm

Fix the Vertical Farm

We welcome teachers from across the UK to join us and be part

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Build your own Vertical Farm

Build your own Vertical Farm

We welcome teachers from across the UK to join us and be part

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Vertical farm grow skills miner

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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Home energy skills miner game

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!

Skills Miner Introductions
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Real classrooms, real results.

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
92%
of students who played learnt something new
LEARNING ABOUT CAREERS
98%
of students want to learn more about careers in lessons
HELPING TEACHERS
93%
of Teachers would use Skills Miner in more lessons

“I think it’s really fun! It’s a very cool way of learning new information."

9 year old student

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Proven high educational quality

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Northern Ireland National Curriculum logo
Scotland National Curriculum logo
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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
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