St. Patrick’s Day ESCAPE ROOM

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Get ready to have the most fun you’ll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with the St. Patrick’s Day ESCAPE ROOM for ELA!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles… all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length St. Patrick’s Day-themed Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this exciting lesson, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your students are stuck in your classroom on St. Patrick’s Day and cannot leave until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks that will teach them about St. Patrick’s Day, St. Patrick himself, and Irish culture!

• In the first task, students will read 8 fun facts about St. Patrick’s Day and must identify the incorrectly spelled word in each passage. They must write the correctly spelled word in their student answer booklet. Shaded boxes within the answers reveal their first code.

• In the second task, students will read 8 facts about St. Patrick and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the passages. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the second code.

• In the third task, students will perform a close reading of one of Ireland’s most beloved poems, Raglan Road, by Patrick Kavanagh. Then, they will answer multiple choice questions about the poem. Letters of the correct answers reveal their third code.

• In the fourth task, students must solve a word maze. Letters collected along the way form the fourth code.

• In the final task, students will be quizzed on what they learned throughout the first four tasks and enter their answers to St. Paddy’s Day trivia questions in a fun crossword puzzle. Circled boxes within the puzzle will reveal their final code. Students must act out this word in order to escape.

Product Includes:

– Escape Room Basics

– Detailed Day-Of Instructions

– Escape Room Print Checklist

– Student Teams Chart

– Welcome Sign for Your Door

– Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations

– Student Answer Booklet

– Teacher Answer Keys

– Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal on St. Patrick’s Day or any time during the month of March.