Teachers and students alike love taking a break from worksheets and making learning fun with alternative activities like games or escape rooms. I began creating escape rooms when my own children complained about math being boring, now The Great Classroom Escape is my business!
Learning to create educational escape rooms has required a lot of trial and error on my part. I would love to save you some time and energy by sharing what I’ve learned!
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If you’re on the perpetual quest for dynamic and captivating ways to teach math to upper elementary students, your search ends here. Allow us to
You overhear your students talking about how many days of school are left, but if you are like many teachers, you’ve been counting down the
It always fascinates me to see how students respond to new and challenging problems. Some students dive in, try different methods to solve a problem,
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Using Multiple Choice in Google FormsTM Multiple choice questions are easy to create in Google Forms and can be used for a variety of purposes
The same hands You ask a question to your class and a few hands shoot up in the air. They are the same hands that
I’m Thinking of a Number… Can you solve this week’s math brain teaser? There is only one correct solution to this problem. Share your answer
Testing Anxiety As an adult, I have this recurring dream about taking a test. It’s time for the final, and I didn’t realize the entire
How to Make Google FormsTM Responses not case-sensitive When creating escape rooms, tests, or other types of Google Forms that require a specific short-answer response
Quick Tip Tuesday: Response Validation When I speak with teachers about what they are looking for in educational escape rooms, one of the main answers
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So you want to create digital escape rooms, but where do you start? Learn about programs, apps, and software that will help you get started.
I haven’t met a kid who doesn’t love cracking codes. Storytime. My dad was a crypto-analyst during the Vietnam War. He worked on cracking codes
Writing a creative storyline is one of the key components to creating an engaging escape room. Without a story to follow along with, an educational escape room can become a thinly veiled worksheet.
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