Capture your students' interest and get their gears turning with these totally AWESOME escape room activities for kids of all ages! As feet begin to drag and motivation starts to lack at the end of the school year, these activities can really help with engagement. Here you will find tons of options to provide a thrilling escape activity for various age levels.
Elementary School (K-5) Escape Rooms
1. Cracking the Classroom Code: Robot Malfunction
I absolutely love this free resource because it includes escape rooms for ALL levels from Kindergarten to Fifth grade (kids ages 5 to 10). This entire experience reviews math concepts learned at the various grade levels. This could be some great family fun for your little one on a family game night!
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2. Figurative Language Escape Challenge
This is a simple, straightforward, and FREE activity that has students using different forms of figurative language in a series of puzzles. Also, this escape room activity requires NO locks, boxes, or hidden items! This is a great activity for a 3rd to 5th grade skill level.
Learn more: Teresa Kwant
3. Growth Mindset Escape Room
In these free escape rooms, every student has an opportunity to go against the clock to solve puzzles. The best part? These escape rooms need NO PREP! I love minimal prep—seriously, I have a baby, puppy, and husband to care for, so it really helps to minimize prep time.
Learn more: Think Tank Teacher
4. Escape the Island: Reading Escape Room
Escape the island! Students use their reading skills to escape the island with the task cards and decoders. This freebie requires a little more prep than the previous ones, but it is SO worth it! This puzzle game is best geared toward upper-level elementary students.
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5. Science Tools Escape Room
Review Scientific Tools using 10 free Escape Room Adventures! Each task includes a question with multiple choice answers that lead them to either a positive picture or a picture that redirects them to retry.
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6. Asteroid Challenge Escape Room
I love this Asteroid Challenge Digital Escape Room! It covers science and math concepts at the same time AND who doesn't love the idea of using a "Big Space Blaster"??? Second graders must decode hints for a fun escape challenge.
Learn more: Asteroid Collision 2nd Grade
Middle School (6-8) Escape Rooms
7. Escape the Mummy's Tomb
I loved decoding hieroglyphics as a student and I know your students will enjoy it too in this free Ancient Egypt Tomb Room Escape Room activity! Students must work to solve a challenging series of questions based on reading comprehension.
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8. Team Building Math-Based Escape Room
Students team up to solve math crossword puzzles and crack the code! In this free educational escape activity, they'll use TEAMWORK to fill in math vocabulary based on given definitions. Once they translate the symbols, they'll put them in a ready-to-go Google Form.
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9. Cells Science Escape Room
The free cells digital escape room is an immersive experience! The best part is that it is available in English, Spanish, and even Portuguese! This activity allows students to show off their knowledge of cells in an engaging way and is best suited for middle or high school.
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10. Escape History - French & Indian War
This free history resource is a well-rounded and engaging activity that can be a competitive escape game done online or in person! It explores the French and Indian war and goes through a timeline of events and biographies from that period of time.
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11. Digital Escape Room Challenge: A Dream Within a Dream
In this free challenge, students find themselves locked in a Gothic mansion in their dreams. This digital escape room challenge is based on Edgar Allan Poe's "A Dream Within a Dream." It allows students to demonstrate their understanding of figurative language while having some escape room fun.
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12. Halloween-themed Virtual Escape Room (Math)
Students can use this free math-based Virtual Escape Room based on John Carpenter's Halloween as a self-checking activity. It requires students to think critically to solve 6 questions. Students will solve problems dealing with finding slopes and graphing linear equations.
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13. Area of Polygons and Composite Shapes Escape Room
This escape room for sixth graders can be done digitally or in-person and is easy to implement! It's a great resource to encourage collaboration among the students and get them thinking critically during an escape session.
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14. Escape from Narnia
I love this free digital Escape from Narnia activity found on Surviving a Teacher's Salary. To be honest, I love anything fantasy, but the best part is it's a fantastic adventure that is educational! Students will think critically and use reading comprehension to escape (not that I would WANT to escape, though).
Learn more: St Albans Library
15. Fractions, Decimals, and Percents Digital Escape Room
Students always seem to struggle with fractions and percentages. This Fractions, decimals, and percent digital escape room will keep them engaged and thinking critically as they learn to understand each process involved in order to escape in a fun series of exit puzzles.
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High School (9-12) Escape rooms
16. Murder Mystery Escape Room
Do I really even need to explain why this one would be insanely engaging and fun? It's a murder mystery with a thrilling escape! Who doesn't love those?? Also, who doesn't love a FREE one of those? This Murder Mystery Escape Room encourages logical thinking and teamwork to solve the mystery and escape!
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17. Quadratics Escape Room
For most "Quadratics word problems" sounds like it'll be long and tedious. If you're a teacher, you know students tend to dislike word problems. In this fun series, students experience escape room puzzles that put their abilities to the test in a way that is totally NOT boring.
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18. Ecology Escape Room
This Ecology escape room is great for a review activity. Students use decoders on five levels covering topics involving ecology. I love this unit for my biology classes and being able to use this in person or virtually is extremely helpful! Students use hidden clues in their escape room mission.
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19. Cold War Digital Escape Room
The Cold War Digital escape room is an exciting way to take students back in time following events from the Truman Doctrine up to the Space Race. What's great about this resource is students definitely have to know the content in order to break out from the digital room.
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20. Harry Potter-themed Digital Escape Room (English)
Who doesn't love Harry Potter? Seriously, I get offended when my students say they've never seen it! This free digital Harry Potter-themed escape room found on Surviving a Teacher's Salary is more relaxed but still engaging for your students as they put their reading and critical thinking skills to work.
Learn more: Hogwarts Digital Escape Room
21. Congruent Triangles Escape Room
Congruent triangles escape room includes instructions for running this activity in person or digitally. I love the way this gets students to review the content and test their skills before a bigger assessment hits them! It's great to have students work together and coach each other through solving the problems.
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22. Genetics Escape Room
I'm a nerd who loves Punnett squares, but turn it into an escape room activity like this Genetics Escape room and I'm ecstatic! Students are trapped in a mad scientist's laboratory where he wants to modify them genetically, and they need to use their knowledge of genetics to escape.
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23. Shakespeare-themed Digital Escape Room
It's just downright awesome how this free digital escape room turns to learn about Shakespeare into an engaging activity for all--even with the struggle of getting students involved virtually. This was found on Surviving a Teacher's Salary's website, and it makes an easy job of turning Shakespearian works into something fun.
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