Thanksgiving Digital Escape Room - Middle / High School - no prep

Students love working their way through these interactive, fun Escape Rooms. This Digital Escape Room on Thanksgiving includes five challenges. There is absolutely no Preparation for the teacher!

Students can work through in groups or on their own. They move from room to room until all questions and activities have been completed correctly. This escape room has been created using Google Forms and is self checking.

A scenario is presented that sees the students embark on an exciting adventure where their keen investigative skills and knowledge of Thanksgiving traditions will be put to the test. Their mission is to solve the mystery of the stolen Thanksgiving artifacts from the Thanksgiving Art Museum. A cunning thief has taken valuable items related to this cherished holiday, and it’s up to them to discover who took them. As they progress through this escape room, they will follow a trail of clues, riddles, and puzzles that will lead them to the thief’s identity. Their journey will require them to unlock the secrets of Thanksgiving’s history, culture, and significance.

The objective calls for them to demonstrate knowledge on Thanksgiving, amongst other critical thinking skills. Once they pass through each challenge successfully they will have escaped the room and identified the thief.

**The tasks include working through the Challenges:
**
Challenge 1: The Museum Mystery - involves research and Gap fill activity.
Challenge 2: Research to find out the year of a painting by Winslow Homer
Challenge 3: Thanksgiving Vocabulary - unscramble the words to escape to next room by entering a code.
Challenge 4: Learning about Thanksgiving history by watching a video and answering questions related to it.
Challenge 5: The Thanksgiving riddle challenge - students must work out what the riddles refer to.

To move to the next room students must input a code derived from the tasks.

The Escape room can be completed individually or in groups. They generally take about 1 period to complete.

You will need access to:

The Internet
Google Forms
YouTube to watch the video