Teamwork and Problem-Solving:

• A BreakoutEDU is a collaborative, critical-thinking challenge to solve a series of puzzles and “unlock” the clues to a virtual locked box.
• It can be in a "Free For All" format or "Linear" format
• The power come in creating the locks in Google forms
  • Make sure you utilize "response validation" to keep your locks secret
  • Use all the GSuite apps to embed into your Breakout
  • Use the "Invisible Ink" option
  • Use Pictures as hyperlinks
  • EVERYTHING can and should be a clue or misdirection
• New website Deck.Toys can help you create an all in one breakout

Example: The Application

80's Movie Breakout

Digital Breakout Sandbox

Google Slides is such a dynamic tools and can be used in so many more ways than a simple online slide deck. One way we can use Slides is to have students create a story with multiple narratives using the "Choose your Own Adventure" style project.

Google has a pre-made course on how to get your students started with this project HERE

Once again, Google slides can do so much more than act as a cloud based slide deck. It can also be used as a crowd sourced student created study tool.

• The trick here is creating a "Force Field" around each slide so that it doesn't skip ahead when you don't want it to.
• Assign to tables, each table has one slide to add their topic and info,

Templates can bring in the world our students use outside the classroom, inside the classroom.

• Times magazine template
• Harry Potter Daily Prophet
• Wanted Poster
• Snapchat Stories Template
• Twitter Template
  • Use the social media template to have the students create a conversation between characters in a story or historical figures.

Many more templates HERE