[ISLMA-Share] 'escape room' library lesson

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Wow, an amazing amount of responses in a short time!  These are very
helpful too, I am so clueless about escape rooms, etc...I'd never heard of
Breakout EDU but that website looks like a wealth of information as well as
the SLJ article too.  More input is welcome and appreciated.  Hopefully,
between all the contributions here i'll have something to share soon!
Thanks!

Chuck

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> ​I tweaked the Breakout EDU game "Time Warp" to fit into my theme of
> becoming familiar with the library.  For instance, one of the first clues
> was hieroglyphics.  The students needed to use the library's online catalog
> to find a book on hieroglyphics which led them to find the next clue.  It
> worked fairly well, but some adjustments may need to be made for next year.
>  ;)  If they worked together, most freshman classes finished within the
> forty minute time period.     ​
>
> Danielle Empey
> School Library Information Specialist
> Limestone CHSD #310
> dempey at limestone310.org
>
> Currently reading:
> [image: Image result for the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian]
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
> Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> I helped write a Breakout EDU game (woefully easy, we found out later!)
>> for our freshman Transition classes that acted as a scavenger hunt to get
>> to know our school website. Took most groups less than 15 minutes to open 5
>> locks.
>>
>> Next week, I am using game 1 off the Global Read Aloud feature on
>> Breakout EDU next week for the final day in Teen Read Week. I will offer
>> the game to students in the Library Media Center on their study halls and
>> free periods.
>>
>> To prepare boxes (we have 4), I followed open source suggestions from
>> Breakout EDU and ordered all parts from Amazon. Label every lock. Keep
>> instructions to reset locks. I created a sheet to track the previously-set
>> combinations.
>>
>> Hope it goes well!
>>
>>
>> *~Monica TolvaLibrary media specialistGoogle Educator Vernon Hills High
>> School847-932-2039 <847-932-2039> monica.tolva at d128.org
>> <monica.tolva at d128.org> *
>> Currently reading *The Distant Hours
>> <http://titlepeek.fsc.follett.com/tp/query?action=3&subnumber=1206365&isbn=1439152780&appid=4>
>> *by Kate Morton
>> Currently listening to *After the War is Over
>> <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21936660-after-the-war-is-over?from_search=true>*by
>> Jennifer Robson
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone done a lesson in your library that's like an 'escape room' where
>>> people have to solve clues to 'get out'?  A Biology teacher here wants to
>>> try this second semester as a way to recap the first semester's content and
>>> while i've recently become aware of the escape room phenomena, i'm still
>>> not sure how to proceed.  I'd be open to any suggestions in other words!
>>> Thanks!
>>> --
>>> Chuck Atteberry
>>> Roanoke-Benson High School
>>>
>>> "Work with the living and bring the dead to life."  -author unknown
>>>
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Chuck Atteberry
Roanoke-Benson High School

"Work with the living and bring the dead to life."  -author unknown
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