New Year's Around the World DIGITAL Escape Room: Amazing Race Breakout

Who will be the first to reach the Times Square Ball Drop in New York? If you are familiar with Breakout EDU, this New Year's Around the World digital escape room is completely PAPERLESS!

Students will visit 8 countries:

Australia

Philippines

South Africa

Greece

Spain

Colombia

Germany

Brazil

Iceland

+Info about USA

Students read the content about each country to answer the questions and use critical thinking skills to solve the puzzles and unlock the codes. There are clues to help them unlock each section of the Google Form and advance to the next country like "The Amazing Race”. Once they successfully reach the Times Square Ball Drop, they will see a fun congratulations message!

Questions cover:

Vocabulary

Context Clues

Parts of Speech

Antonyms

Informational Texts

ABC Order

Comparisons across texts

AND SO MUCH MORE

This content is covered through high-quality non-fiction digital text and comprehension questions within the form.

5 things to love about this New Year's Escape Room:

1. NO-PREP! There is nothing to print, cut, laminate, clues to hide, or locks to set. Everything is ready for your students right in the form!

2. This is a great team-building activity for your students! Students will work together to complete challenges and unlock the ciphers.

3. This digital escape room can be used with computers, chrome books, OR iPads.

4. A detailed answer key is included, along with tips of how I use digital breakouts in my classroom and optional hints if you choose to give them.

5. You can share the escape room link via Google Classroom, SeeSaw or other class communication app, OR there is a QR code provided for your students to access it on their devices. All you need is the internet and one device per pair or group. (You DO NOT need Google logins!)

The teacher pdf includes 11 pages. The digital escape room will take students an average of 1 hour to 1 hr and 30 minutes to complete. Some students may take longer or shorter depending on ability levels. The answer key is three pages long and includes extra hints that are not in the escape room form that you can choose to give your students along with descriptions of how the ciphers work for your own information.

Note: This is not an editable form. All you have to do is copy and paste the link and push it out to students. You will not be making a copy for all students. Unlike other quizzes or surveys your students may have taken in Google Forms, students MUST get the answer correct before advancing to the next question and section (vs. it being 'graded' at the end). All student results are the same because of the answer validation function in the escape room! Students do NOT need a Google account and student names are not collected. If students “breakout” or “escape”, they not only finished each section but got every answer correct because students CANNOT advance to the next section without the exact answer.

Please make sure your district does not have Google Forms blocked as no refunds will be given because of this. Thanks for understanding. You do not need Google logins, but you will need access to Google Forms with the provided link.

This escape room will be available for you to use from year to year.

Email katiesurly@gmail.com if you have any questions- I'm happy to help!

This was designed for students to work in groups, but it can definitely work with distance learning as a fun activity if you provide supports!

Here are a few tips for using it in distance learning:

Depending on your grade and student abilities, I recommend:

1. Emailing parents the answer key to help if their child gets stuck since you aren't there in person to provide hints if needed. This would help avoid any frustrations since they aren't able to collaborate as a group as it's designed.

2. Encourage students to do the activity when you have live 'office hours' or a live Google Meet to answer questions in Google Classroom or your classroom share tool. Remember this is a fun breakout activity, and not an assignment you would take a grade for so this should relieve any pressure on families!! Please make sure this is clear.

3. Some of you have told me that you've done this as a class together in a Zoom or Google Meet. I love hearing this! Many of you have utilized breakout groups for this so students can still work together and it has been successful!

4. If you want to know they participated, on the last page it tells them to discuss 3 things they learned so you could have them discuss as a family, as a breakout group, or comment the 3 things to you. You can also have them take a screenshot of the breakout page (or the last country they visited if they didn't have time to escape) since you aren't there in person to have them show you their screen like you would in the classroom .

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*Note: It's ready for you to use again this year if you purchased last year!