Holiday Escape Rooms

Grade/Class: Grade 8 Dinim

Context: In Grade 8 Dinim, students learn about the Jewish holidays. Students in other grades also celebrate the holidays in "real-time" with school-wide assemblies/activities/festivals.

Learning: In a recurring project for the year, students created different holiday-themed escape room puzzles for younger students to complete while celebrating Hanukkah, Purim, and Pesach.  Students first completed an example escape room and spent time learning about the different types of puzzles that can be used as part of an escape room activity.  They worked in groups of 2-3 students to plan different puzzles and asked other groups for feedback on their ideas. Grade 5 students visited the grade 8s during Chanukkah to try the escape room puzzles. Grade 8 enjoyed the leadership opportunity to collaborate and plan a fun learning activity for younger students in the school.