I thought it was pretty cool making and learning things about chemistry. My chemistry Anchor Chart included chemical equations, chemical diagrams of reactants and products, periodic table information, patterns of chemistry, how to study an atom from the periodic table, and the different parts of different kinds of atoms.

One thing that went well for the players playing our escape room was that they all looked pretty engaged. I think the puzzles were fun and interesting. They really liked the word search and the bolded letter puzzles. One challenge for the players playing our escape room was that they didn’t know what to do with our puzzles and the puzzles might have been too difficult for them. Especially when they were solving the cipher puzzle where you have to find all the r’s. I think we could’ve made the clues more straightforward. To be honest, they said they didn’t learn anything about light and sound waves because that’s not what they were focussed on while solving our room. If we would’ve made it a clear goal by the beginning then it would’ve been easier for them to understand more about light and sound waves. However, there was a word search with a bunch of vocab words about light and sound waves. They seemed very engaged with our escape room and said the artifacts looked really cool. It felt very scifi to me. Overall the players felt very immersive while solving the escape room. I would have made it more unique and more creative. I would’ve set up extra props to make it feel differently. We struggle to get a clear idea that everyone agrees on. A certain group member kept changing things we told him not to change. By the end he had a lot of work to refine and it didn’t make sense.