It’s up to them to work hard to find it if they want the reward. This activity also teaches them grit as well as accountability-the students can not move on unless they find the correct answer. They were high-fiving and cheering out loud as they persevered through difficult problems. From a student perspective, It was so much fun and the engagement levels were off the charts! My classroom was excited and motivated to learn about a topic that is usually tough to engage their interest in–I have never seen students more excited about solving addition and subtraction problems. There is so much to love about this activity.
Here are some directions I created for planning a breakout activity in Google Forms: It will work best if you make it a “mission” and create meaningful and challenging multi-step problems, but you can actually transfer any practice sheet you already have to a form and make this activity in minutes. I chose addition and subtraction because I have found that it is a skill that my students need a lot of practice in. My first thought when I was choosing problems was that I wanted to use something that was not generally fun to work on, since I knew the reward would be an incentive to figure it out. The last thing you will need is the problems or questions you want students to solve. With this idea, I had my solution to a classroom breakout session-it was simple and manageable, and here is you how you can do it, too.įor this activity, you will need a lock, a box that the lock will fit on (you can also use an old book bag that has two zippers that meet in the middle, as long as your lock fits through them) and of course you will need some kind of reward to go inside. The idea is that you put in a problem or question and the student(s) can not move on unless they get the answer correct-the correct answer can lead to more clues or one digit of the combination. One of the sessions I attended was about using Google Forms to create “lockbox” activities. For the most part, it is training for teachers written by teachers, so we get to hear about what is working in their real classroom, not just in theory.
#BREAKOUT EDU MATH LESSONS PROFESSIONAL#
There is a lot out there, and I got a little overwhelmed thinking about all of the locks, clues, boxes, problems, etc., that we’d need.įortunately for me, my district does a fabulous job of providing professional development in the area of using technology to increase learning. I went with a group of teenagers to a breakout room this summer, and we had so much fun working as a team to solve the puzzles that I immediately thought, “How can I transfer this into my classroom?”īefore school even started, I was researching and looking for ideas ( Breakout EDU is a great resource, by the way). The solutions lead you to more clues and if you are fast enough, you “breakout” of the room and win. If not, definitely check one out! Your group gets locked in a room, and you have to use information found inside the room to solve all kinds of puzzles and problems.
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