Description
The Mayflower Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about the Mayflower, Wampanoag and the Mayflower Compact.
This Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryptograms 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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Fifth Grade Glimmer –
Thank you for creating this! Great activity for students.
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The Apex of History –
My students always love a good breakout. This one kept them moving and talking. Great lesson!
Ashley A. –
My students are so excited each time I pull out these mysteries. They sure make practicing our skills fun!
The Styled Standards Classroom –
We did this activity as apart of our early settlers unit, which also lined up right around Thanksgiving break. This was an awesome way to keep kids engaged and learning in the last days before break!
Kayla Bonebrake –
My students absolutely loved this and even asked me if we could do something like this more often!
Nichole S. –
Super easy to implement and the students loved it. Structured in a way that students are forced to learn and have fun while they are doing it. Even the lowest academic student was able to participate and enjoy the activity. Great resource for US History. Two thumbs up!
Susan Burdick –
This resource is great for my life skills class. Thank you!
Mrs K saves the Day –
My students LOVE these activities! Thank you for sharing!
Lisa Oswald –
My students loved this Escape Room. It was a great way to end our unit.
Vanessa D. –
My students were very interested and engaged with this. It was a great way to review the Mayflower
Cross-Curricular Creations –
I’ve never seen my students get so excited about social studies. This was such an engaging resource for my fifth graders. Thank you!
Stacy H. –
My kids love these escape rooms! I have purchased quite a few of them and we always enjoy them. One complaint I have is that The Case is always the exact same for all of them. For an escape room it makes it less fun to always be trying to solve the puzzles for the same hypothetical situation. It would be great if each of them had a different case that was tailored specifically to the theme of the escape room. Another complaint or suggestion I have is that the signs at the end are always the same for the most part and only the tiny ones are tailored to the theme of the escape room. It would be great to be able to take a photo of my kids with a sign that said what escape room they completed that was the size of a sheet of paper. Thanks again for the great resource!
Ansley T. –
This resource was helpful for my students to review and practice this social studies
concept.
Help4Teachers –
My two ELA/SS classes LOVED this activity! We used it to go with the novel we’re reading, “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.” It fit perfectly after chapter 5 in the book after we read about the signing of the Mayflower Compact. It was challenging and engaging for everyone, and they all loved getting their pictures taken and posted for parents when it was over. Thank you for this! It was my first escape room activity and I look forward to buying more.
Marcy B. –
Can’t say enough about these escape rooms! They are great review (or introduction) to topics, engage my students and are easy to use.
Chit Chat and Chalk –
Thank you for a great resource! My students loved being able to solve the puzzles. They worked collaboratively. Thank you!
michele G. –
Great resource but as I use more from the seller the students are recognizing patterns and solving in shorter amounts of time. The first one took the entire class period (40 minutes) but the second escape room (French and Indian War) was completed by even my slowest students.
Ruth W. –
Very engaging. Students loved working together to get the puzzles figured out and then finding the answers.
Callie A. –
Great activity for making history hands-on and engaging
Jana C. –
My students were very engaged and loved this activity