Description
Keep your students learning during a review with an Escape Room! This resource is designed to help your students review key content from your Constitution unit. The six challenges review different elements of the Constitution – Historical Influences, Principles of Government, Bill of Rights, Articles of Confederation, The Constitutional Convention, and Ratification of the Constitution. It is a simple escape room activity – no lock boxes required. Students will complete a series of puzzles and receive an artifact. When they have all of the puzzles complete, they will guess their location to receive a “key” out of the room.
With this purchase, you will receive:
⭐Detailed instructions for creating your scenario based escape room,
⭐Six different challenges for key aspects of the Constitution – Historical Influences, Principles of Government, Bill of Rights, Articles of Confederation, The Constitutional Convention, and Ratification of the Constitution.
⭐Content Readings which allow your students to review any additional information they need to solve a puzzle,
⭐Clue Coupons if a group gets stuck, and
⭐Reward posters for the end.
❓How much time will this take?
✥The resource is designed for a class period – It is not necessary for all students to solve all of the challenges to escape the room.
✨This activity is perfect for US History STAAR review tutorials or after school session.
Jazz up the activity with music! I recommend purchasing the soundtrack for Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark to play in the background.
2019 US History TEKS
8.15 Government. The student understands the American beliefs and principles reflected in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and other important historic documents. The student is expected to:
8.15(A) identify the influence of ideas from historic documents, including the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Mayflower Compact, and the Federalist Papers on the U.S. system of government
8.15(B) summarize the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
8.15(D) analyze how the U.S. Constitution reflects the principles of limited government, republicanism, checks and balances, federalism, separation of powers, popular sovereignty, and individual rights
8.15(E) explain the role of significant individuals such as Thomas Hooker, Charles de Montesquieu, and John Locke in the development of self government in colonial America
8.17 Government. The student understands the dynamic nature of the powers of the national government and state governments in a federal system. The student is expected to:
8.17(A) analyze the arguments of the Federalists and Anti‐Federalists, including those of Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, James Madison, and George Mason
8.19 Citizenship. The student understands the rights and responsibilities of citizens of the United States. The student is expected to:
8.19(B) summarize rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights
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Laurie T. –
Love this resource!. Great fun for the students! Such a fun way to engage in the lesson and review the SOLs prior to the test!
Tahni G. –
My students LOVE escape rooms and this one was challenging. The students were trying to “escape” first to earn bonus points on their test. I was awesome to see them working together!
Stephanie M. –
I teach dual credit history (sophomores & juniors) and needed something to spice it up and hopefully save a day of lecturing. I was honeslty unsure if this would be too easy for my students and if they would even buy in…OH MY GOODNESS. They LOVED THIS! It kept EVERYONE engaged with the readings and puzzles. The one adjustment I made was to the artifacts and the order they got them. My students had studied Jamestown, so giving a pic of the fort first would have spoiled it all. So I just cut off the challenge number off the artifacts and reordered them to make it more challenging for my group). I also played national treasure theme music while they worked to set the stage. I would definitely purchase another one of these escape rooms to use with my class! Another edit I made to level up for my crew: I made some of the stations where they had to do some work with the reading THEN they could get the puzzle.
Kim G. –
Kids had a lot of fun with this.
Taylor S. –
This was a great resource to use as a review!