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It’s important to find interesting ways to review, reinforce, and assess student learning. Creating classroom escape games using clues and problem solving from all academic areas will increase student engagement. In a classroom escape game, students work together in cooperative teams to solve a series of math, science, and literacy problems. The goal is to complete a final objective. Clues, puzzles, or riddles are directly related to educational standards that have recently been taught. Rather than remain on the lower levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, students must also apply, analyze, and evaluate what they remember. Collaboratively searching for and finding the secret clues hidden within the classroom creates extraordinary engagement. The donations will allow me to create numerous high interest games themed around Common Core Standards. The items I’m requesting are completely reusable. Hand lenses, magnets, and UV flashlights and pens will lend themselves to hands-on puzzles related to science. Myriad combination locks and padlocks with keys are an excellent means to presenting, solving, and unlocking mathematical problems. Posters depicting basic Morse code and American Sign Language will assist students in uncovering answers to literacy based puzzles. Blank puzzle pieces and picture frames are ways to present clues in fun yet meaningful ways. Boxes, hollow rocks, locked bags, and safes made to look like books are amazing places to hide the next set of problems to solve. Cones and caution tape can be used for coding puzzles or to simply help kids stay on the right track. Solving problems and using academic clues to reach a goal will allow students to work together to overcome obstacles and build confidence. Students will learn that failures to reach answers mean they have to find innovative ways to succeed. By working collaboratively, they will increase their positive social and emotional interactions.

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It’s important to find interesting ways to review, reinforce, and assess student learning. Creating classroom escape games using clues and problem solving from all academic areas will increase student engagement. In a classroom escape game, students work together in cooperative teams to solve a series of math, science, and literacy problems. The goal is to complete a final objective. Clues, puzzles, or riddles are directly related to educational standards that have recently been taught. Rather than remain on the lower levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, students must also apply, analyze, and evaluate what they remember. Collaboratively searching for and finding the secret clues hidden within the classroom creates extraordinary engagement. The donations will allow me to create numerous high interest games themed around Common Core Standards. The items I’m requesting are completely reusable. Hand lenses, magnets, and UV flashlights and pens will lend themselves to hands-on puzzles related to science. Myriad combination locks and padlocks with keys are an excellent means to presenting, solving, and unlocking mathematical problems. Posters depicting basic Morse code and American Sign Language will assist students in uncovering answers to literacy based puzzles. Blank puzzle pieces and picture frames are ways to present clues in fun yet meaningful ways. Boxes, hollow rocks, locked bags, and safes made to look like books are amazing places to hide the next set of problems to solve. Cones and caution tape can be used for coding puzzles or to simply help kids stay on the right track. Solving problems and using academic clues to reach a goal will allow students to work together to overcome obstacles and build confidence. Students will learn that failures to reach answers mean they have to find innovative ways to succeed. By working collaboratively, they will increase their positive social and emotional interactions.

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