Escape rooms are becoming more and more popular as an educational activity for school children as they offer a unique and immersive learning experience that can’t be achieved in the classroom. Escape rooms offer a range of benefits to teachers that we’re going to explore in this blog.
Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills
An escape room will challenge students to use their critical thinking skills to resolve complex puzzles quickly. This improves problem solving, creative thinking, and logical reasoning. Students, as an escape room team, will have to analyse clues and find connections to reach solutions, skills that prove useful in an academic setting, as well as everyday life.
Teamwork and Collaboration
The best way to solve an escape room quickly and efficiently is to work as a team, collaborating and pooling skills to solve puzzles and escape the room. Effective communication and listening to other people’s ideas will prove vital in reaching the common goal of getting out of the room in 60 minutes. This type of collaboration improves interpersonal skills, builds relationships between students, and encourages cooperation, all extremely useful skills in school and in the wider world.
Effective Communication
In an escape room communication, as we have touched on, is absolutely vital. Students will have to share their ideas, information and observation with each other, as well as actively listening and ensuring everyone is heard. This process can develop students’ verbal and non-verbal communication skills, helping them express themselves in a clear and succinct fashion in a variety of situations.
Time Management and Organization
While in an escape room students will have to effectively manage their time as tasks and puzzles have to be completed against the clock. Prioritising tasks, allocating their collective resources effectively and avoiding red herrings are all important. Again, these skills are transferable into real-life situations, with time management and organisational skills an important part of almost any endeavour in the academic or working world.
Engagement and Motivation
An escape room is an engaging and immersive learning experience that sparks the curiosity of students and motivates them to improve themselves. The interactive element of an escape room makes the learning process enjoyable and encourages students to actively participate in problem solving, improving their overall motivation for learning.
Building Confidence
Success in an escape room after solving a series of puzzles and taking on challenges can boost students’ self-belief and confidence. Overcoming obstacles and contributing to the success of the team as a whole develops a sense of accomplishment that can positively influence their academic performance and personal development as they are more likely to have confidence taking on challenges.
Resilience and Adapting to Change
In an escape room students will be presented with twists and turns that they won’t be expecting and they’ll have to adapt to new information as it emerges, adjusting their strategy accordingly. This process fosters adaptability, enabling students to handle unexpected situations or setbacks with a positive and creative mindset. These skills are invaluable in the wider world as students will inevitably have to deal with change and manage stress in the course of their lives.
Fun and Memorable Learning Experience
We think it’s important for learning to be an enjoyable experience and in an escape room students can have fun as their educational experience is merged with entertainment. Our escape rooms foster a positive attitude towards learning and can also trigger an interest in problem solving games that a student may have never thought about trying before.
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Escape rooms offer wide-ranging benefits to students of all ages, ranging from problem-solving and critical thinking to teamwork and effective communication. By getting kids out of the classroom and into a fresh, exciting environment that challenges them, teachers can create learning experiences that will engage students, improve and broaden their skillset and aid their personal development.