Description
The Magna Carta 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 the Magna Carta, King John of England, nobles/barons, Feudal System and Rule of Law.
The Magna Carta Escape Room is a great reading comprehension activity with a twist of fun that has students deciphering codes. 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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Jennifer Thompson –
Thank you so much for the time put into this! It was helpful and easy to prep for my students.
Pierre L. –
This is a great resource! My students loved it and stayed engaged throughout. It was easily adaptable into my class, which made implementation smooth and effective. I highly recommend it to other educators looking for flexible and student-friendly materials.
Michele S. –
My students loved using this resource and learning more about the Magna Carta.
Joseph C. –
I’m a big fan of these escape rooms! The students liked the puzzle-solving aspect of this assignment and it gave a lot of good information about the Magna Carta.
Stacy H. –
I love that you had an escape room on the Magna Carta! We love your escape rooms. It is such an important subject and it was great to use your escape room as a review! I’d love to see more escape rooms because I think at this point I may have purchased all of them that are currently available. haha
alyssa M. –
My students loved using this resource. I will continue to use it!
Ashley K. –
So fun! Just what we needed at the end of the year to learn in a more fun way!
Carrie K. –
This resource was super easy to use – just print and go! Most students quickly grasped the excape-room puzzle concept; a few needed a hint or two on how the codes work. They were so quiet and intent on solving the puzzle that I wasn’t sure how much they were enjoying it. But when everyone completed it (in about 40 minutes) I asked if they thought it was fun and they were very enthusiastic saying we should do one every week! The most serious and last to solve were the most enthusicastic! Highly recommend this as a wrap up OR an introduction to the Magna Carta and/or this era of history. Thanks for sharing; it was worth every penny!
Robert S. –
Loved this resource and saw great learning from my students!
Kristin C. –
This was a great ending to our Magna Carta unit. It kept my ninth graders engaged. We had a 50-minute class and most of the scholars took most of the time, but nearly all of them finished, so it was perfect!
Judith T. –
Made learning about the Magna Carta much more fun!
Jamie Hartle –
Thank you for creating a wonderful resource. This was a great supplement to our curriculum.
Tosha F. –
I used this with a group of homeschool kids that I teach and it was a fun activity to go along with our history lesson.
Deb T. –
My class time is under an hour and most of my students were able to finish in that time. This was our first Escape Room and most liked the puzzles to unlock their codes. I loved that the kids could work together in groups and collaborate on their learning in conversation.
Hanna J. –
I loved this resource! My students had fun with the different codes they had to solve. They were engaged the whole time. This resource is great for review. Thank you!
Marisol C. –
I used this as a review for the Magna Carta. This was my first purchase from this seller. My students were highly engaged and were working their way through the puzzles. Will be buying more from this seller. Love the escape rooms!
No Nonsense Social Studies –
I really enjoyed using this with my students. They got really engaged in learning the materials!!
Nicolle Davis –
I did a previous escape room with my students and they loved working through it so I used this one as a review of sorts for the Magna Carta
Chloe Smuk –
Great!
Abby D. –
Highly engaging activity!