Introduction:
Our project was to create an escape room for a certain age group. The age group we were assigned was the year 5’s. In our escape room, our puzzle questions had to associated with the math curriculum done in the year 5’s mathematics class. We chose to do our escape room both physical and digital. We did our physical one by having legitimate physical questions on pieces of card which would lead you to your next clue. Our digital aspect was done via Minecraft were we had more freedom and could make certain things open when the questions were answered correctly. We chose to do both physical and digital because the physical aspect would make sure that they get to use their brain without technology, move around more and talk to each other more to try and figure out the puzzles. The digital bit was done because it was done in Minecraft and as a year 5, I loved Minecraft and video games; so it was good to know that they enjoyed the whole escape room.
Our steps to success:
Their were multiple key steps in the creation of the project. The first step was to empathize with the year 5’s. We thought back to when we were year 5’s and tried to think up of what they liked and get a decent idea of that. The second step was to email the year 5 mathematics teachers and find out what the year 5’s are learning in mathematics at the moment or have previously learned. Our third step was to look at the numeracy NAPLAN test for the year 5’s and get an idea of what they do during the year in mathematics. Our fourth step was to start looking back at our first step (empathizing) and then coming up with a theme for our escape room. In our fourth step, we chose ancient Egypt as our theme for our escape room. Our fifth step, we started deciding if we should do a physical or digital escape room. Like I said before, in our fifth step we decided to go for both physical and digital escape room. Our sixth step was designing the escape room for our year 5’s. Our seventh step was creating our original design and using the questions that we decided on doing. Basically we made the questions and got Minecraft world ready. Our Eighth step was to email one of the year 5 class teachers and explain this whole project to them and ask them when the students can come done to do our escape room. Our ninth step was to actually get the year 5’s to do the escape room and find out if they liked it or not.
Positives/Negatives:
There were many positives and negatives in this project. The positives in this project were that later on down the track, we worked extraordinarily hard to get this project done and dusted. The negatives of the project were that most of the lessons were us messing about or not getting work done, which lead to us almost failing or original project in the end.
Next time…
Next time I will make sure to not mess around and get all of my jobs done as soon as possible as well as make sure everybody else is doing the job they should and somebody else (*cough cough* Hayden) wasn’t destroying our project before we could even present it or put it into practice.