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!
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.
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.
The Need to Struggle is Real A few days ago, one of my children (who will remain nameless) was searching online for the answer to
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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
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
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