MATH ESCAPE ROOM: 3D Shape - 10 Challenges, Resources, Answer Key and Student Booklet

Using an Escape Room to develop curriculum knowledge is an exciting activity that will inspire learners from 2nd Grade to 5th Grade.

The curriculum content of this Escape Room is linked to 3D Shape in Math and covers the following areas:

• 3D shape recognition (cuboids, prisms and pyramids)
• 3D shape properties
• Nets of 3D shapes (cuboids, prisms, pyramids, cylinders)
• Volume of 3D shapes (cuboids and triangular prisms)
• Problem solving using given information to solve volume questions, then application of knowledge to solve more complex problems involving multiple 3D shapes.
• Multiplication of two digits by two digits (volume)

The aim of this Escape Room is to provide jeopardy for the children to work under pressure to solve 10 Challenges to move through this Escape Room, collect the 10 Code Keys and be able to leave the Escape Room in one piece!

Resources included in this product are:

• Code Key Booklet for students
• Answer Key Booklet for teachers
• Resource Pack to run this Escape Room
• Full instructions to set up and run a successful Escape Room
• Table Name Labels for Escape Room teams
• Starting and completion script for the class teacher

Before beginning this Escape Room, you will need to prepare the following resources (all of the resources are included within this product):

• A copy of the Pupil Workbook for each group
• A copy of the Answer Booklet to check the children’s work
• Initial Starting Script sharing the problem to the children
• Completion Script celebrating the completion of the challenge
• Group Table Labels (9 included)

Once the resources are prepared – you are ready to go on this adventure with your children! You may wish to allow you students to have access to Math dictionaries (book based or online) to remind themselves of some of the rules in 3D shape. Calculators can be used – however, this will spoil the calculation element of the Escape Room and reduce the time required to complete. We would recognise avoiding the use of calculators to develop further challenge.

Setting up and running the Escape Room

The Escape Room should begin with the children being put into groups of four. For home learning, the activity can be done in isolation or with other children at home. Within the classroom, four is a good collaborative number as five is too many, three can often gang up on one another and two is not always collaborative enough.

Each group is given a Code Key Booklet and they should think of a team name. They can then write their team name on their Code Key Booklet. They must not look inside the booklet until the Escape Room starts.

Each group decides on a space to work. They should then be given a Team Name Table Label and add their name to the label.

Pens and pencils are the only resources the children will need.

The children are now ready for the activity.

Start by telling the children that they should not look ahead to other activities, other than the one they are working on.

Read the Starting Script – this explains to the children what has happened and what they must do:

• Solve 10 Challenges to move through the Escape Room

With the children, decide on a time limit for each of the challenges. Once the time is up, answers can be checked, and the teams can move onto the next challenge. Some challenges are much longer than others – so at the start of each of the different challenges, it would be a good idea to review the timings – especially Challenges 1 and 2 which take a long time (10 minutes minimum for these two).

At the start of each Challenge, it is useful for the children to read the challenge on their own, and then the teacher to read it with them to ensure they understand what they are expected to do. It also means that any questions can be answered at this point.

As the children progress through the challenges, they are able to go back and work through previous challenges to complete them – but they must not move forwards.

What follows are 10 challenges which the children must solve to discover the code to move onto the next activity.

The 10 activities are based on the following outcomes:

• Word Search of 20 key words related to 3D shapes and their properties and features– however, the children are not given the words to find – instead they are given 20 questions. The answers to the questions are the words which they must find in the Wordsearch.
• Solve the Crossword by answering 15 more questions based on 3D shapes.
• Identify the different 3D shapes and solve the Code Key word using the clue provided
• Linking 3D shape terms with their definitions
• Identifying nets of 3D shapes
• Identifying the “Odd One Out” in 3D nets – the net which would be impossible to create the 3D shape
• Problem solving – Volume of cubes and cuboids
• Problem solving – Volume of cubes, cuboids and right angled triangular prisms
• Problem solving – Volume of structures created with multiple 3D shapes

When all 10 activities are completed, and the children have gained the correct Code Keys from each activity, the teacher can read the final communication which reveals that they have been successful, how they have been successful and that they may now leave the Escape Room.

The Escape Room should last for at least 2 hours.

We hope that your children enjoy this Escape Room.

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