Description
The Valentine’s Day 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 Valentine’s Day, fun facts, February, candy and cards statistics, Ancient Rome, Romeo and Juliet, traditions
The Valentine’s Day 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
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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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melissa D. –
Thank you so much for this great resource! This was so easy for me to implement and my students liked it too!
leon C. –
My students love this activity. It was fun and engaging.
Erin W. –
This was perfect to use on Valentine’s Day to channel their craziness, but still include academics.
Kacey M. –
Fantastic resource and very high quality. I highly recommend it.
Mrs K saves the Day –
My students LOVE doing escape rooms! Thank you so much!!!
Ashley S. –
My students had so much fun, and I loved the variety of the codes. Really required them to think!
Marie M. –
My pupil’s loved the challenge of working through the different puzzles to work out the clues. There was a great mix of information about the origins of St. Valentines Day & different traditions from the around the world that the children were exposed to while solving the puzzles.
Teaching Exceptional Minds –
Very easy to use, just print and go. Cute escape room, made class fun and got the kids up and moving around.
SelCrn –
This was a good activity for my diverse learners! 🙂 They loved it!
Jacqueline Aldridge –
Excellent resource. My students absolutely loved this activity. Thank you!
Kristen Taylor –
We had a great time learning about the history of Valentine’s Day as well as learning how to attack some challenging puzzles. A great time was had by all!
Jessica L. –
Great activity to incorporate the holiday while still completing academic content.
Sara M. –
We LOVE escape rooms around here – and these oens are always fun and just challenging enough to keep the kids moving, but not so challenging as to shut them down.
Jamie Hartness –
this type of activity is very motivating for my group of kiddos so this resource was wonderful
Kristen Greenberg –
Highly engaging resource that kept children entertained during our holiday party.
Shayla M. –
Thank you!
Katie A. –
Fun activity to use as a review around Valentine’s Day.
Lori P. –
Wonderful resource!
Alyssa H. –
So much fun!
teachinglittlesbigthings –
I am so excited to use this resource in my classroom!