Escape Rooms für den Englischunterricht 3/4

Trend Escape Room for the classroom: more learning fun, teamwork, and logical thinking when cracking secret tasks together.

Experience trends: Escape rooms for primary school children

Live escape rooms, exit games, or escape stories in book form are not only exciting for adults. Especially children of primary school age love to crack tricky riddles and master the challenge. So why not bring the trend into schools and use it to rework curricular topics in a completely new way? In this volume, you will find out how the exit game principle can be implemented as simply as possible in the classroom and what needs to be taken into account when transferring it to schools.

New ideas for teaching English

Be prepared: with six ready-made breakouts, you can transform your classroom into an escape room without much effort. Through various clues and riddles, the students find out number codes. They need these to open a locked treasure chest in the classroom. As usual in escape rooms, there is also a frame story that explains what is locked in the treasure chest. To solve the puzzles, you need a basic knowledge of English, problem-solving thinking, and, of course, teamwork.

Digital added value: tricky puzzles and exercises

Particularly practical: the breakouts also contain numerous digital puzzles and exercises. These can be used in addition to or as an alternative to the analogue puzzles. This is how a meaningful digital lesson works!

The topics:

• Fruits and vegetables
• Animals and pets
• Body, health, and feelings
• At school
• House and furniture
• A trip to London

The volume contains:

• Six ready-made breakouts with instructions on how to carry them out and numerous copy templates
• Many puzzles and exercises, also for digital lessons
• General information on the topic BreakoutEdu.