Cells – Digital Escape Activity

My students love escape rooms, and I’m a big fan of letting them play and learn at the same time. One activity I added this year is a cell digital escape activity.

This week, we’re working with cells – organelles, cell theory, and so on. There’s a lot of vocabulary in this unit so I’ve prepared a lot of the usual vocabulary activities:

• task cards that I use for bellringers, exit slips, individual review, whole class review, even a round of scoot
• digital task cards that are great for individual practice because they are self-checking
• pixel magic reveal puzzle which reveals an image of a cell, one pixel at a time, as question are answered correctly.

But I felt I needed a little something else. Something to help students practice their vocabulary with some fluidity and something to engage them in a review of material as we begin back after winter break.

I wrote this digital escape room for my students over break. I prefer physical escape activities, but the pandemic has left me with hybrid classes sometimes and completely remote classes sometimes, so I had to switch to digital. The benefit of digital is that students can use it independently or in groups. While working remotely, students can still participate in groups by using the Zoom breakout function, or they can work alone if they prefer.

Here’s the walk through of the solution to the cell digital escape activity. Let me know what you think!