Minecraft: Hour of Code - Escape Estate

Welcome to the Escape Estate! Use coding and computational thinking - in Block or Python - to unlock secrets, open trap doors, and reveal hidden clues to escape the mysterious mansion by dawn.

Learning Objectives

Are you ready to put your computational thinking skills to the test? Welcome to the Hour of Code 2022: Escape Estate!

Hour of Code 2022: Escape Estate has been designed as a fun and creative tutorial introduction to computer science (CS). This one-hour experience will provide your students the basics of coding (blocks or Python) and demonstrate all the ways they can utilize computational thinking to solve problems.

Through the Hour of Code 2022: Escape Estate, students will:

Explore early coding concepts
Use computational thinking to solve coding puzzles
Create code (using blocks or Python) to solve problems
Discover how computational thinking can be applied to other subject areas (outside of computer science)

This year’s Hour of Code has a strong emphasis and focused learning outcomes on computational thinking. Computational thinking is an approach to problem-solving using specific skills and practices.

Visit the Microsoft Escape Estate Support page for more comprehensive information.