HALLOWEEN Escape Room - Escape the Mansion! - Digital English language activities and puzzles

This is a NO PREP Digital Classroom Escape Room. Learn about the origin and traditions of Halloween while you and your students try to escape the Halloween mansion! The interactive activities are designed to encourage teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving and team building. These puzzles and challenges are a fun way to learn English while exploring the origins and traditions connected to Halloween. This resource can be used in the classroom and/or for distance learning, remote learning hybrid or blended learning.

This Digital Escape Room includes:

• Reading English texts about Halloween
• Creative problem solving puzzles
• Vocabulary and reading-comprehension challenges
  Theme of the Escape Room: Escape the Halloween Mansion. Use the clues in the mansion and read about different traditions, superstitions, spooky characters and the origin of Halloween.

What can you expect from this DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM?

Above all, it’s a FUN way to change classroom dynamics and encourage students to use language creatively for real purposes, in this case: finding your way out of the mansion!

NO PREP is necessary, since the interactive activities will guide the progression of the class. They are carefully designed to be engaging and give away just as much information as necessary to move on to the next puzzle. If your students find the language or the puzzles too difficult, you can use the HINTS provided in the Teacher’s Notes.

What kind of activity will students solve?

• Reading-comprehension challenges
• True or false
• Pattern recognition puzzle
• Riddles
• Sequencing and ordering
• Observation and problem-solving tasks
• Reading about: origins of Halloween, traditions, superstitions, trick-or-treating, Dracula, Frankenstein, Sleepy Hollow, Edgar Allan Poe, mummies, jack-o-lantern, etc.

What’s included in the Digital Escape Room?

• Teacher’s Notes with hints, answers and a detailed explanation of the progression of the game
• Interactive Presentation representing the Halloween Mansion with puzzles and activities
• Access to the Escape Room website, which includes all the necessary tools (you DO NOT need a Google account, just an internet connection and a computer, laptop, Chromebook or iPad)
• Follow-up questions connected to the theme of the Escape Room in case your students solve the puzzles in less than 45 minutes or to be used in future lessons.