Coordinate Plane Activity | Minecraft | Distance, Quadrants, Volume

Overview

This Coordinate Plane Activity inspired by Minecraft is the perfect way to engage your middle school students in real-life math projects. With a focus on distance, quadrants, and volume, this printable PDF aligns with CCSS standards 6.G.A.2 and 5.G.B.3. It’s designed for grades 5 through 7, making it versatile for different learning levels. Your students will love applying concepts in a fun, interactive way while mastering coordinate planes and graphing skills. The hands-on format ensures they can explore math like never before!

Why you'll love this

This fun printable resource turns your classroom into a treasure hunt adventure where students use graphing skills to locate hidden treasure chests on a coordinate plane. Along the way, they will apply their knowledge of distance between points, identify quadrants, and calculate areas of triangles, rectangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids, all while immersed in the Minecraft world they love.

The Lost Treasure Chests is a multi-standard activity designed to reinforce key geometry concepts while keeping students highly engaged. Students will map out nine unique Minecraft biomes by graphing ordered pairs, analyze distances to plan optimal paths, and calculate areas of various polygons to complete their missions. The final challenge tasks students with building bases by finding the volume of rectangular prisms, tying together concepts from across your geometry unit.

This resource is perfect for wrapping up your 6th grade geometry unit and can be used for end-of-unit review, project-based learning, summative assessments, or even as an engaging sub plan. The included teacher instructions, examples, and answer key ensure a smooth implementation in any classroom setting

What are the tasks?

  ✔ Task 1: Map Out the Different Biomes (math: plotting coordinates, identifying 2D shapes including parallelograms, rectangles, trapezoids, triangles)
✔ Task 2: Travel Across Biomes in Exploration (math: identify quadrants, area of different shapes, distance between points)
✔ Task 3: Build Bases at Biomes to Extract Treasure (math: volume of rectangular prisms)

What's included?