Seventh Graders make a Great Escape

Shorecrest seventh graders collaborated with Media Specialist Casey Giroud ’02 to make their own escape rooms.

First students wrote original mystery stories during English class with Mrs. Brill. After revising and editing their stories, four groups in each class were formed. Each group of students debated and decided which of their mystery stories they loved the most to use as a springboard to design an escape room. Their ideas ranged from a Build-A-Bear Workshop, candy shop, and child’s bedroom to a school clinic, forest, and a scary cabin. The groups took three days in the Charger Commons makerspace to build all of the props and clues to go into their escape rooms. They built trees, trunks, and extra boxes. They also had to use critical thinking skills to flesh out the trajectory of clues they would create to help their classmates solve their escape room. 

Boxes with a variety of padlocks from Breakout EDU were used to set codes and bring the escape rooms to life. Once the Chargers were done designing, each group was given a space to set up, and they rotated to be able to enjoy each other’s escape room. While some broke out of the rooms and others didn’t, students enjoyed the process of writing, collaborating, building, and having fun that they created themselves. 

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