Well in 2017 in Debrecan Hungary, at the Science on Stage Conference for Science Teachers I first encountered ESCAPE ROOMS in the classroom. Since then I’ve wanted to make one and went about it totally the wrong way, buying boxes and locks without any idea of what I would do.
I was fortunate enough to go to Cascais Portugal for the 2019 Science on Stage Conference and went to an Escape Room workshop, so that was it. I’ve now got to prove it can be done. I think however I might have gone over the top. It has taken me hundreds of hours of thinking and doing and I daren’t add up what I’ve spent, although most things wont be used, so my warning if you get hooked, plan and execute in draft and then pay!
I’ve moved the clues to another post on Escape Rooms and here I’ll discuss what I did and all the things I did wrong!…..
The main problems I did was
- Making it too difficult, people will lose interest and give up.
- Making it too long, it can’t be completed in the time, people lose interest and give up.
- over estimating what the students will do and what they wont.
- Not noting down the answers to the clues, for quick reference.
- Not keeping it all together and splitting it up and then never getting it back together again. But this might not be possible if you have limited kit, so take loads of photos!