Until Next Time,
Ritchie
Over the last year, educational escape rooms have been growing more popular and I have been dying for an opportunity to bring this concept into my classroom. Halloween was the perfect time to introduce this! I decided to adapt this concept and modify an escape room created by “Taylor Teaches 7th” (a fellow teacher I met online) who is just as passionate as I am in creating an engaging learning environment! The ‘Transitions Escape Room’ was a perfect blend of digital and physical which made my 7th & 8th graders develop key skills in problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, character and social skills. Students were divided into heterogenous cooperative learning groups. Each group was given an envelope of different tasks to complete. These tasks ranged from categorizing, ordering, and identifying transitional words and phrases. Every task had an embedded number codes that these groups needed to correctly find and input on a google form link! Once all codes were entered, the group “escaped” and won a special prize in celebration of Halloween! Muhahaha! These tasks were not as easy as described! Limits were tested... frustrations were had... but great teamwork and perseverance occurred! It was even more amazing when I told the kids they needed to rely on group members only, and took a step back, did I realize just how valuable “failure” can be! All in all, the kids and I enjoyed taking part in this Breakout Edu game! We definitely enjoyed ourselves and without knowing, the kids learned some valuable lessons as well! I hope to implement another 'escape room' soon!
Until Next Time, Ritchie
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8/2/2023 01:04:35 am
Good place, walked into the future together with bookmarked as their favorite your websites. That i can’t procrastinate to read the paper even more with everyone.
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