After attending a Breakout session for Professional Development and successfully breaking out, my mind began swarming with ideas on how to incorporate this into my units. After doing more research, I discovered that learning through the use of a Breakout box is centered around the idea that students will take those same skills required to "crack the code" and open the box, and apply them to the world around them. Using this box will help to further develop the inquiry-based learning that engages students and keeps them wanting more! It's amazing that these simple items could have such a profound impact on students.
Breakout games transfer the ownership of learning from the instructor to the student, making it easy to observe how learners approach problem solving and apply their knowledge. In addition to the content knowledge needed to succeed in a specific game, all Breakout games require critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and communication. A Breakout game provides learners with many opportunities to fail forward. Every unsuccessful attempt to open a lock forces the player to try again.
In each group, students are provided with five different locks (directional lock, five lettered lock, four digit lock, a three digit lock and a key lock). To unlock the locks, they follow clues, even those that are invisible! For this, they would use the UV/Blacklight flashlight to discover hidden clues written in invisible ink! In addition to the clues made available at the start, there are clues hidden in the locked boxes as well. Students will not be able to unlock certain locks without first unlocking the single locked box. Place students in a room with a box that is locked with five locks and they will become investigators, detectives, problem solvers and thinkers right before your eyes!
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After attending a Breakout session for Professional Development and successfully breaking out, my mind began swarming with ideas on how to incorporate this into my units. After doing more research, I discovered that learning through the use of a Breakout box is centered around the idea that students will take those same skills required to "crack the code" and open the box, and apply them to the world around them. Using this box will help to further develop the inquiry-based learning that engages students and keeps them wanting more! It's amazing that these simple items could have such a profound impact on students.
Breakout games transfer the ownership of learning from the instructor to the student, making it easy to observe how learners approach problem solving and apply their knowledge. In addition to the content knowledge needed to succeed in a specific game, all Breakout games require critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and communication. A Breakout game provides learners with many opportunities to fail forward. Every unsuccessful attempt to open a lock forces the player to try again.
In each group, students are provided with five different locks (directional lock, five lettered lock, four digit lock, a three digit lock and a key lock). To unlock the locks, they follow clues, even those that are invisible! For this, they would use the UV/Blacklight flashlight to discover hidden clues written in invisible ink! In addition to the clues made available at the start, there are clues hidden in the locked boxes as well. Students will not be able to unlock certain locks without first unlocking the single locked box. Place students in a room with a box that is locked with five locks and they will become investigators, detectives, problem solvers and thinkers right before your eyes!
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