At a glance
Escape Room! is a 60 or 75 minute science escape game for grades 5 to 8. Students have 30 minutes to find the combination that opens the chest and stops the countdown, cataloguing clues and using a variety of observation techniques.
Your students have 30 minutes to defuse a bomb!
After the facilitator explains the mission, they have 30 minutes to stop the countdown in the classroom.
They need sharp observation skills. They solve riddles and logic tasks, in a more or less set order, to find the number combination that opens the chest holding the keys that stop the bomb’s countdown.
Excitement guaranteed!
Learning goals (elementary)
- Find clues and sort them by how useful they are.
- Use a variety of observation techniques and tools.
- Show that chemical and physical changes (for example, invisible ink, UV light, heat) change the properties of matter.
- See why science is useful.
- Build scientific reasoning.
