GCSE History - American West Escape Room

Brand New GCSE History - American West Escape Room. Could be used as part of a recovery Curriculum for History as a fun way to assess knowledge.

Virtual Escape Room Revising the American West by Cre8tive Humanities! This lasts an hour or under depending on how quick students can solve each puzzle! Students love this style of lesson, great as an educational treat for your class to start the year and engage them in some fun problem solving. C8/HIS/15

Each Escape Puzzle is designed by our Head of History Specialist.

How can this resource be adapted for social distancing?

1. Upload / send the sheets digitally so students who can work independently through them (don’t use the keys or PPT tracker if so)
2. Could use as part of a Recovery Curriculum for History
3. Set the 7 Puzzles for Homework
4. Pairs instead of groups

Product Contents:
☞ Escape Room Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display
☞ Escape Room Puzzle Keys (Six Sets for Six Teams)
☞ Escape Room Team sheet - Record codes, answers clues as they progress through the 7 rooms
☞ Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles)
☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - Quickly confirm to teams they have solved the puzzle correctly
☞ Teacher instructions of how to set up the escape room and what to print and top tips and shortcuts.
☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape too :) for any quick teams
☞ The 7 Rooms each have a specific Puzzle that has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and is suitable to GCSE History Student

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