Description
The Jamestown Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom, reading comprehension passages, and answering questions! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about Jamestown, Starving Time, Virginia Company, Pocahontas, John Smith, John Rolfe, and Powhatan
The Jamestown settlement Escape Room is a great reading comprehension activity with a twist of code deciphering. The codes include ciphers, morse code, cryptograms, Polybius squares, and a final 4 digit code based on the decoders/clues.
What’s Included?
- 4 Reading Passages
- 4 Puzzle Phrases to Decode
- 4 Decoders
- 4 Differentiated Decoders
- 10 Multiple Choice Questions
- Teacher Instructions
- Answer Key
- Hint Guides – How To Decode
- Completion Signs
Watch the video or click on the preview button to take a closer look at everything included!
Skills Used:
- Reading Comprehension
- Critical Thinking
- Peer Collaboration
- Problem Solving
To prevent students from simply decoding the puzzles, ALL questions need to be answered correctly in order to solve the final code. This ensures understanding!
Benefits of Use:
- No Prep
- Print and Go
- Cross-Curricular
- Highly Engaging
- No Locks Needed
- No silly envelopes to stuff
- No fancy shapes to cut out
Give students a chance to decode puzzles, move around the room, and read passages, all while actively learning! Students will work in pairs (or individually) and race against the clock. A friendly competition always increases engagement. No prior knowledge is needed. Each code will reveal interesting facts about the topic.
Puzzle Types:
- Cryptogram
- Morse Code
- PigPen Cipher
- Polybius Square
Options for Use:
- Anticipatory Sets
- Unit Review
- Early Finishers
- Gallery Walk
- Stations
- Sub Plans
- Rewards
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Megan F. –
I love to do these escape rooms with my students. They are engaged with the passages and think have to problem solve with the codes at the end of the readings.
Katrina J. –
Great addition to our history lesson and helped students boost reading comprehension as well.
Paul L. –
Students have to work as teams of three times breakout at there own pace. I attach a Google Form and they need to take a screenshot to prove they broke out.
Cathy B. –
Great Activity to use for learning or reviewing Jamestown.
Alexis P. –
My kids love this!!!! It was such a fun activity and really helped with their knowledge of Jamestown. We used it after we read Blood on the River.
Middle School Maniac –
My fourth-grade students enjoyed this activity as part of our unit on Jamestown. Thank you.
M Mack –
Great resource to use with social studies unit on Jamestown. Students enjoyed.
Mike R. –
This is a good resource. The difficulty level is not very hard and my students were engaged.
TeachingMissKenzie –
I used this as a fun activity for my fifth grade history club. It was great and they enjoyed it!
Marcella J. –
Amazing resource.
bcovteaches –
My students loved participating in this Escape Room!
Katie G. –
So GREAT! The students LOVED this activity. They had to work together in teams to find the code! Such a great activity to do at the end of a unit! Thank you so much. I will be looking into other escape rooms from you! No prep… truly is a print and go! Thank you.
Makenzie R. –
Such a fun and engaging way to get students learning about this topic! My students had a blast.
Madison W. –
Such a fun activity for students as they learn about this!
Nicole L. –
A great social studies lessons. My students were so excited when the escaped the room. Students worked together to complete the tasks and were engaged.
Cross-Curricular Creations –
My students were very engaged during social studies and asked to do another one. Such a fun resource!
Stephanie Creazzo –
This is a great resource. My students enjoyed it, kept them engaged.
Jessica Moon –
Such a fun game to wrap up this unit in VA studies!
Christine L. –
My students loved this resource, it helped them a lot.
GINA V. –
Excellent resources that helped provide ideas for my students to use.