BreakoutEDU

INTRO

Breakout EDU takes the appeal of the “escape room,” a recreational team sport in which a group of people uses their wits to break out of a locked room, and turns it inside-out. Instead of a locked room, teams must figure out how to get inside a tightly locked box. Breakout EDU builds the wooden boxes by hand and sells them online, along with an assortment of hasps, locks, invisible-ink pens and guidelines.Teachers build lessons around students’ nearly insatiable need to get into that @#$% box.

HOW IT WORKS

Following instructions provided in the Breakout Challenge, the teacher sets up the classroom (hiding keys, boxes, inserting required mystery items, lock set up, print and insert End of Game signs in last big box).
The teacher invites the players into the classroom and introduces the story, explains the rules (show 5 Tips of Success), notes what part of the classroom is out of bounds (not used) and answers any questions.
Students have a fixed amount of time (put up the timer, most games take 45 minutes). They will solve a series of challenges, riddles, and mysteries in order to “break out”. Each game is designed so that players are immersed in the experience and are racing against the clock to break out before time expires.
The teacher reviews how the team(s) did and reveals what they may have missed if they were unable to solve the puzzle mysteries and breakout. Each team takes a picture with the failure or success signs. Tweet using #psd70 #breakoutedu.

DETAILS

Each kit loaned out from the Mobile Learning Initiative may have different locking mechanisms, please familiarize yourself with your box(es). Actual KITS #1-7 breakdowns are found HERE.

As well, BEFORE starting a new game or returning a breakoutEDU box, please zero out ALL number locks, and write down all directions on the BREAKOUT EDU SpreadSheet. This helps keep track of how the locks were used by the previous person.

How to run a BreakoutEDU in a class with one Breakout Box

LOCK Tutorials and Recording Sheets – http://www.breakoutedu.com/locks

END of Game Signs at http://www.breakoutedu.com/signs or make up your own.

MORE LOCKS can be purchased at our local Home Depot, Canadian Tire or even directly from BreakoutEDU. Other businesses do sell locks you just need to make sure that they can be reset. If you have access to a 3D printer, you can even print out your own breakoutEDU hasp at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1547143.

LOCK BOXES can be almost anything that has the ability to have a hasp lock around it. Pencil cases, makeup cases, tackle boxes or even a homemade wooden box.

GAMES are constantly added to https://games.breakoutedu.com/ and there is a great template at http://www.breakoutedu.com/create that teachers can use. As well, there is a BreakoutEDU PSD70 GDrive folder that you can check out and even add to (ask Nicole for access). Recently, BreakoutEDU Platform subject pack games have been created and these are a separate cost. Purchase your own for the school – Platform Access for $60

You can even submit your own game directly to breakoutEDU. For further info, check out their active Facebook community https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakoutedu/.

GO DIGITAL at http://www.breakoutedu.com/digital/.

You can create your own digital breakouts with these templates and information, the Build-Your-Own page, Tom’s Digital Breakouts, and more here as well.

SET up STUDENTS (and STAFF) for SUCCESS by showing this before they start:

AND to DEBRIEF, use some or all of these questions (used for both staff and students):

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