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

  1. Decide what subject you would like to use to play the game.
  2. Create a scenario for the students to "breakout" of.
  3. 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.