Digital Breakouts

What should my Google Site include?

1. A colorful header image

2. An exciting title

3. Optional: A timer - A 45 countdown minute timer w/ music HERE. A 20 minute countdown timer HERE.

4. Text with a story that explains the breakout challenge. Possible items to include:

• students' first names, popular staff members' names
• scattered bold-faced letters when combined spell out a secret word - Example HERE
• links to tasks - Example HERE

5. Activities/Tasks - Use linked images, text and resources (suggestions below) to create activities.

6. Your Breakout Google Form with Response Validation - Students will submit their self-checking answers to clues on this form to "breakout" and solve the challenge you have given them.

Can my Google Site contain more than one Digital Breakout ?

Sure! Create a Digital Breakout Page with subpages for each of your separate games. Check out Tom Mullaney's breakout games HERE.

What web resources can I use to create my engaging tasks/activities?

(If the tasks you create can't be downloaded, copy the URL [if possible] or capture it using a Snipping tool.)

• Add Letters - Bart Simpson Chalkboard Generator, Diploma Generator and more!
• Alphabet Soup Word Generator
• Become a Secret Message Master
• Big Huge Labs - Mosaic Maker, Badge Maker and more!
• Breaking News Generator - Create & download a top story image. Link it to an activity!
• Cake Writing Generator
• Code Breaker Worksheet
• Cool Fancy Text Generator - Type your text in the box with the pencil, click copy to the right of the font you like, and paste the word into text on your site.
• Cryptogram
• Custom Medal Maker
• Custom Receipt Maker - Create & download a fake receipt. Great for a math task!
• Egyptian Hieroglyphic Typewriter - Create a secret message. Use the Snipping Tool on a laptop to create & download a screen capture of your message and the matching code(s) image(s).
• Embossed Label Generator
• Eye Chart Maker - Generate (right click and Save As) a message.
• Fake Text Message
• Fake Ticket Generator - Create your own concert ticket.
• Fortune Cookie Generator
• Game Letter Tile Writer - Write text using Scrabble Tiles.
• geoGreeting - Type a message which results in a link that shows each letter written in the shape of buildings throughout the world. Roll your cursor over each letter to see the building's actual geographic location. Click on each letter to see a map.
• Google Drawing Hot Spot
• Hart Chart decoding message
• Hide 'n See secret messages
• Jigsaw Planet - Turn an image into a jigsaw puzzle. (Use Google Draw to put a message on your image first.)
• Keep Calm Studio - Create your own Keep Calm and.... poster.
• Match the Memory - Concentration type matching game with images, text or both.
• Mystery Piano - Record a series of notes on a piano the students have to replicate. When students play the tune correctly, your secret message is revealed! Example HERE. (Students have to play the first line of Twinkle Twinkle to reveal the secret word!)
• Periodic Table Writer - Write text as the chemicals of the periodic table.
• PhotoFunia - Add lots of fun effects to your photos
• Pigpen Cipher - Creates a code where letters, numbers, etc. are substituted for symbols.
• Secret Message Maker - From ABCya.com
• Simitator - Create fake social media posts!
• Snotes - Reveal a layered hidden message using two directional sliders. (4 lines of text, 20 character limit on each line)
• Superstickies - Create a sticky note!
• The Ransomizer - Ransom note generator
• WigFlip Tools - Meme Generator, Scrolling Typewriter Text and more!