Spotlight on Learning -Escape Room

Spotlight on Learning - Escape Room Final

French 10 

This semester I wanted to try an escape room concept with my students as their final assessment. I thought it would be a good way for them to demonstrate their language skills as well as their critical thinking and collaboration skills. I provided 8 different puzzles/activities for them to solve and when they did, they were left with a 3-, 4- or 5-digit number as their “code”. Once the group had completed their individual puzzle, they entered all their codes onto a master sheet, and I told them how many codes they had correct. Some groups were off by just one number and quickly worked as a group this time to figure out what they needed to fix.

A Student’s Perspective: In our French 9 class, we had an escape room as our final assessment. In my experience, it was a fun and enjoyable assessment. We worked as a group and individually solved puzzles to figure out a code. It was an exciting challenge that tested our language skills and vocabulary. It went very well. We used our critical thinking skills to figure out the codes, which I had some difficulties with at first but then figured it out. Our group was very invested in the assessment and wanted to finish before time. This assessment was much better than a regular final exam because we got to showcase our knowledge in a very fun and interesting way rather than having a lot of stress about it! Jasmin D.

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