Breakout EDU

There is a cool trend in education, called breakouts. It takes the principles of escape rooms and intertwines them with educational ideas to create fun and engaging student activities. Teachers design a series of challenges that students need to work together to solve using tools like locks, codes, online riddles, etc. Here is the website: http://www.breakoutedu.com/

A few weeks ago I created a breakout challenge for my students on the Iroquois Confederacy. They were really engaged, they problem solved, they collaborated, and to top it off they had fun and reviewed the topics we were learning. It is definitely something everyone should try out! There are lots of digital breakouts that don't require any physical locks.