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!
Learn how the Pigpen Cipher works and use it to add secret messages, collaboration, and story-driven fun to classroom escape rooms and puzzles.
Looking for a storyline for your next classroom escape room? Try these ten backstory ideas—from catching a criminal and escaping a haunted house to time travel, space missions, and seasonal adventures.
Want to create a digital escape room but aren’t sure where to begin? Compare Google Forms, Boom Cards, and Twine, including the classroom-friendly advantages and limitations of each option.
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
Keep students focused during the Halloween season with low-prep digital math escape rooms for grades 1–6. See the skills, storylines, and classroom options for each grade.
Use response validation in Google Forms to make digital escape rooms self-checking while avoiding common capitalization, spacing, and answer-format problems.
Make Google Forms short-answer responses case-insensitive with a simple regular-expression pattern, so correct answers work whether students use uppercase or lowercase letters.
Explore alternatives to traditional tests that can reduce anxiety and reveal what students understand, including student-led explanations, projects, games, and classroom escape rooms.
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
When the same few hands answer every question, a change in routine can help. Try practical ways to increase participation, collaboration, and student engagement with classroom challenges.