Use this printable escape room, Rescue the Reef, with your middle grade students to encourage team work to solve puzzles and crack the code!
Save the Sea with our Printable Escape Room
There is an ocean emergency! Trash and pollution are harming the sea animals. To stop the damage, your students will solve puzzles, crack codes, and work together to protect our oceans. This ocean printable escape room for early years learners turns literacy, teamwork, and environmental awareness into a playful, hands‑on adventure.
Here are some of the activities students will be guided to do:
- Color by code (ocean vs. not‑ocean): Students sort images and use simple color codes to reveal sea‑themed pictures while practicing attention and categorization.
- Odd one out (marine vocabulary): Learners choose the word that doesn’t belong in an ocean group, building vocabulary and reasoning with familiar sea words.
- Word unscrambles (ocean words): Children rearrange letters to form marine‑related words, strengthening phonemic awareness and early spelling.
- Ocean word search (print‑friendly): A word search reinforces marine vocabulary while promoting visual scanning and persistence.
This Ocean Escape Room Resource Includes
- “Save the Sea” digital escape room (Google Slides format)
- “Save the Sea” digital escape room (PowerPoint format)
- Student workbook (Google Slides format)
- Student workbook (PDF format)
- Answer keys
How to Play Our Ocean Escape Room
- Download resources: Choose your preferred formats for the escape room and student workbook.
- Prep the workbooks: Make a copy for each student or group; optional cut‑and‑assemble pages keep little hands busy.
- Run in Slideshow mode: Display to the whole class or share with small teams.
- Solve and unlock: Students complete each puzzle to reveal codes and environmental “action tips.”
- Final code = save the sea: Enter the last code to stop the pollution and celebrate a classroom win.
Download and use This Team Building Activity Today
Use the dropdown menu to choose between the different files today. This activity is the perfect small group team building activity for your middle years’ students.
This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator.
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