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It’s often good to make one or two tasks fairly simple. It builds confidence and makes the
students more eager to continue. Too many challenging tasks can leave our less confident
students ready to quit. The key is a balance between an easy, moderate, and
challenging tasks.
As you finalize what your tasks are going to look like, your escape room will start to come
into focus.
Step 3: If you build it, they will come.
This step is probably the most fun (aside from watching the students during escape room
day) as well as the most time-consuming. Once you’ve decide what concepts you’ll be
asking the students to review and what types of puzzles you will use, you can begin to
organize the activity.
It’s often helpful to role play (mentally) your activity before you run through it with a
class. Pretend you’re the students. What do you want them to do from the moment they
enter the room until the moment they’ve “escaped” or “won”? Is anything too easy?
Unclear? Make sure they are challenged, but not overly frustrated. Then, build out each
step by making sure that it makes sense logically to arrive at the correct answer
Invisible marker under desk taped to a clue: L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
On page 85 of the book with the quote highlighted is “J’étais publié quand ?”
On the stem of the rose: L’allumeur a la clé.
Question taped to the inside of the reverbere: Qui habitait sur la première planète ?
Lockbox with locked ipad inside it: Locked ipad screen Le businessman avait combien d’étoiles
? → Code to leave the room = 501.622.731
cinq cent un millions six cent vingt-deux mille sept cent trente et un. (501.622.731)
L’allumeur à la clé.
5. You are only allowed to ask for a hint one time. If you do not
need the help great! But if you do, just know that if you get
stuck on a later step, you will not have any help left.
6. You only have this class period to break out. If you do not
break out you lose and Madame has eternal bragging rights.
7. You must leave all your belongings outside. The only things
you may use in the Escape Room are things you find in the
Escape Room. If I see you cheating you will be removed
from the room and have to work on a writing assignment
instead.
8. HAVE FUN!!!!