Description

Take a break from worksheets with these fun and engaging 6th grade math digital escape rooms! It can be challenging to keep students engaged before holidays and vacations. These digital breakouts keep kids focused reviewing important math standards. Best of all, they are easy for teachers to implement! All of these online escape rooms are automated by a Google Form™. There are no clues for teachers to hide, and the form will not allow students to progress to the next clue until the correct answers are entered. Note that this does NOT require Google Drive™ or e-mail addresses for students. Anyone with internet access and a computer or tablet can complete these digital breakouts!

★During Halloween season (or any time), your students will be racing to escape Horatio’s Haunted House by reasoning with rates and ratios, completing ratio tables, graphing, reasoning with tape diagrams, and more.

★Do your sixth graders have what it takes to save Thanksgiving dinner? They will need to perform all four operations with decimals, evaluate expressions with exponents using the order of operations, multiply and divide fractions, solve multi-step word problems, and complete logic puzzles.

★Before winter break (or any time), Revenge of the Gingerbread Man will have students racing to escape a bakery by working with decimals and exponents, using order of operations, solving logic puzzles, working out multi-step word problems, and much more.

★When the Valentine’s Villain steals all of the candy, it will be up to your class to save the day by ordering rational numbers; finding the greatest common factor and least common multiple; finding percents; solving ratio and rate word problems, and much more.

★It’s time for summer vacation, but you are stuck in a time warp! Can your students activate a scientist’s time machine to save summer vacation? They will be comparing the value of negative numbers; comparing the value of number opposites and absolute value; distributing and combining like terms to match equivalent expressions with variables, finding the area of a composite shapes, and more. Please note that this IS NOT a comprehensive review of all sixth grade standards.

Escape rooms are a great way to encourage collaboration, review skills, provide enrichment, and keep kids actively engaged!

What’s included in the PDFs?

• Quickstart guide
• Detailed instructions & tips
• Printable intro page with QR code to access the Google Form™ (optional)
• URL to access the Google Form™.
• Detailed answer key
• Success signs to snap photos with after completing the activity (optional)
• Optional link for Google Drive™ users to create a copy of the form to save to their own drives in order to view student results.

FAQ

• Do students need to have Gmail™ accounts? NO! Anyone with internet access and a tablet, computer, or even phone can complete the breakout.
• How long will this take? Most students will be able to complete these activities in under 45 minutes. You can allow 60 minutes to be safe. The form will not save student data, so if you are worried about your students not finishing on time, simply have them write their answers on scratch paper. They can then come back and quickly re-enter their answers and pick up where they left off.
• Will students have to search the web to figure out the puzzles? NO! All of the information needed will be provided in the Google Form™. The math in this activity is all standards-based.

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