Escape Room

Pre-Program Minecraft Introduction

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• Take the time to locate your student experts and establish community expectations for the use of Minecraft in class.

• Important things to ensure you include are: staying on task, staying in the right game mode, and consequences for not following the guidelines.

• Classroom Rule Examples

• Class Charter Canva Template

Notebooks

During Visit #1, Sarah will go over how to use the camera and book to document learning. It's strongly encouraged to remind students to either record facts from the Virtual Tour in their in-game notebooks, or in an out-of-game alternative (Docs, OneNote, etc.), as the learning will be important to the Sustainable City/Sustainable School culminating activity. Every stop in the virtual tour contains a mixture of content types. Lifers icons indicate climate solutions.  

Periodic check-ins are advised to make sure students are documenting this information, particularly if they appear to be speedrunning through the escape room section.

Overview

• Students meet Noelle Hamlyn, the artist who created the Lifers exhibition.

  • • Talk to Noelle to learn about the theme and creation of the exhibition.

    • Noelle Dialogue: 

Hi! I'm Noelle, and I created the Lifers Exhibition at ROM. 

Welcome to your first challenge! We're on a cargo ship that was transporting fast fashion across the ocean when it sank. Use the clues in the virtual tour to help find your way out. For the first door, you might want to talk to the Lifers.

• Students speak to the Lifers for clues. One gives the direct answer, but others give valuable hints.

  • • Lifer 1: Oh, I'm not sure how to open the door. Maybe ask one of the others?

    • Lifer 2: Oh, there's a trick to opening the door. I know there is. You can't just flip levers randomly. You need to be specific.

    • Lifer 3: Hmmm. How to open the door? The words under the levers look like the second half of a sentence. Maybe you need to know what the first half is?

    • Lifer 4: I'm not sure how to open the door, but I do know I've seen the crew flipping more than one lever. 

Security on this boat is a bit weird.

• Lifer 5: Oh yeah, I've gone through loads of times when one of the crew members was wearing me. You have to flip the levers over the signs that complete this sentence:

"Climate change is..."

• Lifer 6: Oh, I have a great view from here. If you mess up the code, you need to flip all the levers back to "off" and start over, or even the right combination won't work.

• Lifer 7: Using the right words is important. Some of those signs might seem kind of right, but they're not specific enough.

• Students must use Stop 2 in the Sustainable Style Virtual Tour (Stop 2 link) to find the correct answers (highlighted).

Overview

• Students must get through the water room.

  • • Talk to the Clothing Sorter just inside the door to the Water Room.

    • Clothing Sorter Dialogue: 

Phew! Good luck. The boss says they're tired of all these unsustainable clothes and deleted all of them from the sorter that opens the door. 

If you want to get out, you need to look through the barrels for a more sustainable fabric and throw it into the sorter over there.

• Students must use Stop 2 in the Sustainable Style Virtual Tour (Stop 18 link) to find the correct answer.

Solution

• The solution is found in one of the Solutions markers in Stop 18:

  • • Tapa cloth, sometimes known as barkcloth is made throughout Oceania from the inner bark of trees such as the paper mulberry tree. The fabric is decorated with natural dyes from trees, plants, and clays, either freehand or using pattern boards.

It is often used to make clothing for special occasions like weddings and funerals. It is both biodegradable and sustainable, uses little water and does not pollute water during its production in the same way as the fashion industry.

The key to sustainable fashion lies in finding ways to reduce waste during the manufacturing process, reducing or eliminating pesticide use on cotton and other crops, using natural dyes such as indigo, cutch, and weld whenever possible, and reducing water use and water pollution during production.

Textiles like this tapa cloth point us in the right direction.

• Students must explore the room to find barrels that contain one of the sustainable options they found in their exploration of the virtual tour. Tapa cloth is the only option that will work, and is found in multiple barrels within the room.

  • • • Options like spandex, nylon, polyester are not sustainable because they are plastic-based and can take anywhere from 20-200 years to biodegrade, as well as adding microplastics to the water supply during washing.

      • Rayon is not sustainable because the manufacturing process requires vast amounts of water and chemicals that are then released into the environment, as well as causing deforestation due to the amount of trees required to produce it.

      • Conventional/industrial cotton and denim are not sustainable because, as explored during the antechamber puzzle, they require vast amounts of water to grow to an industrial scale.

• Students must take the tapa cloth to the sorter near the Clothing Sorter NPC and press Q to throw it in. If the sorter accepts it, the light will go on and open a door around the corner to the right.

• In the room outside, there is some Minecraft tapa cloth on the ground, as well as an image of tapa cloth from ROM collections, which students can take photos of to add to their notebooks.

Overview

• Students must find the code to get out of the Waste Room.

  • • Talk to the Door Keeper at the end of the Waste Room.

    • Door Keeper Dialogue: 

Oh gosh. I know that to open the door you have to take a piece of paper, then click on the anvil, put the paper in the first spot, and rename the paper as a number....  

I just don't remember what the number is. Maybe somebody else does.

• Students must keep exploring until they find the supervisor's office. To get there, return to the stairs you came down to get to the waste room, and take the narrow path to the right.

• Talk to the Supervisor in her office.

• Supervisor Dialogue:

The door code? Oh gosh, I don't know. I haven't had time to leave this room in ages. There's way too much paperwork to do!

I think it might be in one of the books on the shelf though....

• • • Find the Security Codes book (it's located on the shelf behind the supervisor).

      • • SAFETY NOTE: If students haven't been following instructions and are switching themselves to creative mode, it is very easy to destroy the clue in this step.

• Students must use Stop 1 in the Sustainable Style Virtual Tour (Stop 1 link) to find the correct answer.

Solution

• The solution is found in the Waste Alert panel in stop 1:

  • • • Every year, 92 trillion kg of fashion waste is dumped in landfills due to overproduction and fast fashion. Most of these clothes will not biodegrade and will outlive us by hundreds of years.

• Students must return to the Door Keeper with this information.

  • • • Take a piece of paper from the chest next to the doorkeeper

      • Right click on the anvil

      • Place a blank piece of paper in the first inventory spot on the anvil

      • Change the word "Paper" to 92

      • Remove the paper from the final inventory spot on the anvil

        • • Note: If students don't have enough enchantment levels to rename the paper, talk to the Door Keeper and click on the "get levels" button

• Right click on the dispenser to the right of the door (not the button attached to the dispenser)

• Place the named paper in any spot in the dispenser

• Press the button on the dispenser to open the door

Overview

• Students must find the solution to escape the Waste room.

  • • Talk to the Elemental Scientist behind the big furnace.

    • Elemental scientist dialogue: 

This here's a material reducer. Put things into it, and elements come out.

To get out, you need to check containers in this room for things to reduce to make one of the main greenhouses gasses causing climate change.

• Students must use Stop 2 in the Sustainable Style Virtual Tour (Stop 2 link) to find the correct answer.

Solution

• The solution is found in the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) label in stop 2:

  • • • Carbon dioxide is one of the main greenhouse gases that drive climate change. Carbon dioxide gas consists of many units, or molecules, of carbon dioxide.

Molecules are made of building blocks called atoms. You can think of atoms a little like Lego bricks or Minecraft blocks. They come in many varieties, and you can combine them in different ways to create different things.

A molecule of carbon dioxide is made of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms (dioxide means “two oxygens”)

Most of our planet’s atmosphere is made of oxygen and nitrogen. But unlike both of those gases, greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide absorb heat coming from the surface of the Earth and re-release it in all directions, including back toward the Earth’s surface. So the more greenhouse gases are in the atmosphere, the hotter the overall temperature of the planet.

• Students must use this information to find the elements they need to create "carbon dioxide" in the three openings near the Elemental Scientist.

  • • • Students must go through containers in the warming room to find objects they can try to break down in the Material Reducer behind the Elemental Scientist.

      • Several containers contain things that can be broken down into oxygen.

      • At least one container, a chest on a bamboo raft, contains a diamond that can be broken down into carbon.

      • Blocks must be in the order C - O - O to open the door.