Escape Room Games for Teachers
Are you looking for digital escape rooms for kids to build teamwork and help students develop their critical thinking skills? Say hello to escape room games that have been designed by expert teachers and are ready to play in your classroom!
Each escape room activity in this curated collection has undergone a thorough review by the teachers on the Teach Starter team, so it won't just provide a fun experience for your students. It will help them build critical problem-solving and group work skills while they are at it! With themes for each escape room story, the games allow students to engage in concepts they are currently learning in a puzzle format, which means it's fun too.
Although escape rooms have been around for a while, online escape rooms only took off in popularity in recent years, so you may not be completely familiar. Have no fear: Our intrepid team of teachers has put together your ultimate guide to adding these activities to your classroom!
What Is an Escape Room?
Online or virtual escape rooms are just like the real thing — they're fun games designed to test your logic and critical thinking skills.
Students can work together to find the answers to the series of small puzzles or riddles which, when put together, make the code or secret password needed.
Our teacher team has cooked up dozens of escape rooms to get you started, from Christmas adventures to play as a whole class activity at the end of the school year to puzzles focused on saving the school librarian's lost library card.
Download any of the activities now, and let the fun begin!
Want to take things a step further?
Although there's no "real" room to escape from, you can certainly add a physical component to your classroom escape room! Put a physical (locked) box in your classroom, and add a prize inside. Once students have solved their digital escape room activity, challenge them to unlock the box!
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Escape From the Alien Invasion – Math Escape Room (Basic Fractions)
Save the planet from the alien invasion by identifying fractions, comparing fractions, creating models, and more with an exciting digital escape room.
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What is the Author's Purpose? Escape Room
Get your students excited to practice understanding what is the author’s purpose with this engaging escape room activity.
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Easter Escape Room - 2nd Grade Math Review Game
Use this Easter Escape Room Game for 2nd graders to review place value, number sense, counting money, and other second grade math concepts.
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Irregular Plurals Escape Room
Teach irregular plurals with this engaging escape room game that helps teachers bring grammar lessons to life while keeping students motivated and excited to learn.
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Opinion Essay Structure Escape Room – Mission Persuasion!
Teach opinion essay structure with this engaging escape-room game that helps students build a series of strong, convincing arguments.
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Metric Conversion Games — "Measurement Mansion"
“Escape” the ordinary in your classroom with metric conversion games like our “Measurement Mansion” escape room.
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Measurement Escape Room (Customary System)
“Escape” the ordinary in your classroom with this measurement escape room that will engage your students while they practice customary conversions of length, weight, and capacity.
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Rounding Numbers Activity (Escape Room)
Play our rounding numbers activity in your classroom to engage students as they practice and extend their rounding and critical thinking skills.
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Addition Fact Practice: Numbers to 20 Escape Room
Engage students in addition fact practice with an interactive escape room and companion student notebook that make learning fun, hands-on, and meaningful.
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Simple Multiplication and Division Word Problems Escape Room - Monkey Jungle!
Share our simple multiplication and division word problems escape room with your students to give them an engaging way to practice solving problems by modeling equal groups.
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Changing Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers Game (Escape Room)
Play this changing improper fractions to mixed numbers game with your students for a fun way to review fraction conversions!
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Planets Escape Room Activity
Navigate facts about different planets with this fun and engaging escape room style activity with your students.
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Narrative Structure Escape Room - Lost the Plot
Teach narrative structure with this engaging escape room game where students learn about the orientation, complication, climax and resolution by rebuilding a broken story.
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Measuring Capacity Escape Room
Explore measuring and comparing capacity in liters and milliliters with this measuring capacity escape room.
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Ordering and Comparing Numbers Games — Escape the Robot Invasion!
Play ordering and comparing numbers games like this escape room to engage and educate at the same time.
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Adding Like Fractions Escape Room – The Lost Artifact
Have your super-sleuth students solve this fractions escape room to find out the location of the lost artifact!
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The Lost Library Card – Whole Class Escape Game
Use inference and problem-solving skills to decipher the puzzles and uncover the hidden code.
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The Locked Theater Whole Class Escape Game
The Locked Theater is an engaging whole class escape game designed for team building and collaboration.
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Printable Escape Room - Rescue the Reef
Use this printable escape room, Rescue the Reef, with your middle grade students to encourage team work to solve puzzles and crack the code!
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Team Building - Farmyard Rescue Escape Room
Your students must work together to solve puzzles, crack codes, and to save the farm.
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Halloween Escape Room - The Missing Treat Mystery - Multiplication and Division Facts
Solve the mystery of who stole all the treats from the Halloween Party with a Halloween Escape Room featuring multiplication and division.
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Adding Unlike Fractions Escape Room – The Lost Time Traveler
Have your super-sleuth students solve this fractions escape room to find out the location of the lost time traveler!
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Coordinate Plane Escape Room
Play this engaging coordinate plane escape room with your students to help them refine their coordinate grid skills.
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Factors and Multiples Game — "Cave of the Tides" Escape Room
“Escape” the ordinary with this factors and multiples game that will engage your students in math review as they search for a secret tunnel.
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Word Problems Addition and Subtraction Escape Room
Search for a lost treasure in our word problems addition and subtraction escape room that will give your students varied practice adding and subtracting one and two-digit numbers.
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Input Output Tables 4th Grade Escape Room
Play this input output tables 4th grade escape room with your students to put the “FUN” in functions!
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Parallel and Perpendicular Lines Activity — Escape Room
Engage your students with this parallel and perpendicular lines activity that encourages cooperation and problem solving to escape!
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Volume Escape Room
“Escape” ordinary volume activities with this engaging volume escape room that will have students solving volume challenges on a quest for a lost civilization.
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Digital Escape Room for Kids - Alphabet Sounds
Explore the letters of the alphabet and their main sounds using this fun digital escape room for kids.
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States of Matter Escape Room - The Laboratory Lockdown
Use a States of Matter Escape Room activity to engage and excite your students about the forms and changes seen in matter.
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Mass Mystery Escape Room
Explore the different elements of mass with this super fun and engaging escape room resource.
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Amphibians, Fish, and Reptiles Escape Room
Help your students discover the amazing characteristics of amphibians, fish, and reptiles with an exciting Animal Science Escape Game!