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Embark on a fin-tastic underwater learning experience right in your classroom with this ocean-themed escape room activity! Your students will be able to review important ELA and Math skills, enhance critical thinking and problem-solving in a collaborative STEM project, and demonstrate their creativity through writing and crafts. The activities in this hands-on resource are differentiated to meet the needs of your classroom and could easily be modified for early finishers or as intense as an all-class project!
What’s in this resource?
- Ocean-themed game board pieces
- Hanging file folder tabs and an editable Ocean Escape label for organization
- Five differentiated challenges (ELA, Writing, Math, STEM, and a diorama) for Transition Kindergarten, Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade.
Challenge 1 – ELA: Color by Code (TK: Uppercase letters, Kindergarten: Beginning sounds, 1st Grade: Missing vowels, 2nd Grade: Sight Words)
Challenge 2 – Writing: Ocean Animal Research Project
Challenge 3 – Math: Ocean Graphing
Challenge 4 – STEM: Build a Boat that Floats!
Challenge 5 – Diorama: Create an Ocean Habitat
- Answer keys for the ELA and Math challenges
How does it work?
Students work to move their pieces across the game board by completing 5 challenges and 2 checkpoints in the following order:
- Challenge 1: ELA activity
- Challenge 2: Writing challenge
- Checkpoint 1: Craft – Directed drawing
- Challenge 3: Math activity
- Challenge 4: STEM challenge
- Checkpoint 2: Craft – Directed drawing
- Challenge 5: Diorama
A checkpoint is optional, but if a student completes a checkpoint, they get an incentive. You can modify the checkpoint activity and the incentive for your classroom!
Teacher Tips:
- Use a hanging file folder with each challenge, checkpoint, and answer key inside. Input your students’ names in the editable label according to their group and put it on the front of the file for easy reference.
- Leave an empty hanging file at the back of the box for completed work.
- Display the finished artwork, boats, and dioramas in the classroom and make a book out of the research projects for a fun little exhibit of your students’ handiwork.
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