BreakoutEDU
Kailey LeBouef
What is this?
Embracing the escape room trend, Breakout EDU aims to engage students with a series of locks and boxes around the room, and clues to access each box that solves a literary, mathematical, scientific, or historical mystery. In the process, Breakout EDU targets the skills of communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. But most of all it is engaging, hands-on, and FUN.
STeps
- Decide what subject you would like to use to play the game.
- Create a scenario for the students to "breakout" of.
- Students have a certain amount of time to breakout!
How This Works
Activities that can be done in the classroom
Elementary Science
- The desert
- Students can try to escape the hot barren desert by answering clues and facts about it!
Elementary Social Studies
- Ancient Egypt
- Students can answer facts and questions about ancient Egypt will traveling through ancient pyramids.
Benefits
BreakoutEDU gives the students a chance to learn about different subjects and lessons in a creative way. The students must think, work together, and come up with a solution to the problem at hand. This is a great way to build a students team building skills, and for students to think outside of the box!
PROS
- Student centered
- enhances communication skills
- students learn how to work under pressure
- highly engaing and hands on
- requires collaboration
COns
- Most of the activities are geared towards middle school, not many for the other levels.
- Hard to work with when you have a bigger classroom.