I love being a language teacher around the holidays. There are so many fun activities we can do to enhance the classroom experience, engage our students, and review material. This year for Halloween I created a digital escape room that you can actually use without the tech if you do not have access to devices at your school. I wanted to walk you through how to do this digital breakout so your students can have fun too!
Step 1 – Make copies
This Halloween Digital Escape Room is very low prep once it has been created. It did take me hours to work through all of the kinks, make the clues, and create the worksheets. But I finally have the breakout ready to share.
The first thing I did was copy the “clue sheet” students would use during the breakout. Then I copied the puzzle pieces clues, cut them out, and put them into an envelope marked top secret. I copied an image online and glued it to the envelope. It looked like this:
Make the activity more fun by creating a top-secret envelope.
Step 2: Share the Link
The next thing I did was share the website link with students in Google Classroom. Once they have access to the site, they can start solving the Case of “The Zombie Antidote. ”
That’s it. My prep was done and we were ready to get going.
Tips
You can explain to students how the codes need to be placed in the Google Form on the home page, however, this is also explained in the Google site.
If students input an incorrect answer when solving the clues, then the Form will let them know. They can’t solve the case until all 5 of the clues have been solved accurately.
You can place students in groups, partners, or let them solve the clues individually. I chose to have them do the activity individually since I didn’t want the fun to end immediately. However, if you are short on class time, you can place them in teams. My students took about 60 minutes to solve the clues, mostly because they had to figure out how to spell SPOOKETTI accurately and they struggled with the pumpkin faces.
You can give students clues, but I don’t do this until we are getting close to the end of the class period. Once we have about 10 minutes left I offer a bit of help if they need it. I will say things like “The first number is correct but none of the others are.” or “Check that spelling, how do you think it could be spelled differently?”
Success
The activity was a total success. It left the kids with just enough frustration to keep them pushing through to try to beat the others in the classroom. I offered a reward stamp for the first to complete the breakout.
I hope your students will enjoy this as much as mine did. Stop by the Creative ASL Teaching FB page and share with us how it went!
Other Halloween Activities for your Classroom
Escape room: Escape the Haunted House
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