What is BreakoutEDU?"BreakoutEDU is based on breakout rooms where people are locked inside a room and must use teamwork and critical thinking skills to solve puzzles to break their way out. It's taking education by storm; but instead of locking our kids in our classrooms, they are locked out of a mysterious box." ~Mari Venturino The basics of it are you have a simple wooden box locked with 6 separate locks that students have to find clues and solve problems in order to unlock all of the locks to get the box open. Students must work together, share information and ideas. They need to rely on each other to move forward in the process. It is engaging as students will be moving around the room looking for clues. It is fun, even if you don't solve all of the problems and succeed in opening the box. My wife and I went to an escape room in Green Bay with some friends recently and had a great time working through the process, even though we came up short of escaping. We were told only 30% are successful I am hoping they weren't just trying to make us feel better about ourselves. But whether you succeed or not, it is an amazing experience that I hope you will consider using with your students. Here is a post by Mari Venturino with more details about the set up of BreakoutEDU. She has created her own BreakoutEDU games and the BreakoutEDU.com site has many more examples of games/lessons you can use with your students. There are many based on content or grade levels, otherwise we could work together to create or modify games to meet your learning objectives. Escape Rooms nearbyEscape rooms are what the Breakout boxes are based off of. As I mentioned my wife and I attempted to escape and I thought it was worth sharing that there are rooms in Green Bay and Appleton, and other in Madison, Milwaukee, LaCrosse and other locations throughout Wisconsin if you were looking for something fun to do.
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