SCHOOL ESCAPE ROOMS

Is your school looking for a new way to engage learning?

School Escape Rooms have achieved just this by creating “Classroom Escapes” which is an immersive learning experience that succeeds in promoting Problem Solving, logical reasoning and Team Work. When this is combined with a range of subject areas the stage is set for a unique learning experience.

Why escape rooms are effective for learning

There are a number of pedagogic reasons why playing educational escape games offers a valid and engaging approach to learning. The following are reasons connected to the devel-opment of so called transversal or soft skills:
● Social Skills. Escape rooms offer the opportunities for groups of students to work together to solve puzzles, gaining the benefits of knowledge and insights from others. Good escape rooms are designed in such a way that they cannot be solved alone (for example they need two people in different spaces to solve a code) so that players have to communicate and collaborate in order to solve the puzzles.
● Problem-solving. Escape rooms present a variety of different types of puzzles from codes and cyphers and traditional puzzles, to finding or manipulating objects and com-plex digital puzzles. Players are presented with a variety of problems that they have to solve, gaining skills in thinking through problems and developing approaches to solve them.
● Players also develop resilience as they make multiple attempts to solve puzzles in different ways, and creativity as they come up with different novel solutions.
● Lateral thinking. Many of the problems and puzzles that players face in escape rooms require them to think differently from their usual mindset and combine objects and ideas in novel ways. This type of thinking is an important underpinning to creativity and innovation.
● Time management is also at stake in a time-based challenge. Together with collabo-ration, this can promote overall personal resource management.
● Engagement. The very fact of playing an exciting, time-dependent immersive game may be engaging for many learners (although not all) and the physical real-world na-ture of the game offers an immersive play experience that is motivating for many people.

By engaging with School Escape Rooms teachers will see their students and students will see their peers imagination and creativity come to life in an exciting and exhilarating way creating a learning experience that they will want to repeat with other topics. To help you buld your own escape room games in classrooms, check out ClueBox educational escape room set.