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Transform Your Lessons with Escape Games

Escape games are an incredible way to turn your classroom into an adventure zone where learning becomes irresistibly engaging! These interactive puzzles naturally encourage collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving as students work together to "escape" by mastering the curriculum content. Whether you're teaching math concepts, historical events, scientific processes, or language arts skills, you can adapt escape games to virtually any subject and grade level. The best part is that you don't need to be a tech wizard or spend a penny—there are free resources available that students can access on tablets or computers. These resources will help you design engaging escape experiences that turn your classroom into the highlight of your students' day while helping you meet your learning objectives.

Grades 1-12

OK2Ask: Digital Escapes with Free Microsoft Tools

In this on-demand workshop, you'll discover the power of using various free Microsoft tools to incorporate digital escape rooms into your teaching. Using Microsoft Sway as your foundation, you’ll design a narrative that guides students through the game.

Grades 4-12

Escape Rooms

Crazy Games offers ready-to-go digital escape rooms that require students to use problem-solving skills to solve puzzles, riddles, and logic problems to escape a situation before time runs out. Some of the games have a two-player option.

Grades K-12

Free Online Digital Escape Rooms

Don't miss these free escapes, including Mission: School Blackout, Candy Crush, Monster Mash, Harry Potter, Epic Olympic Escape, Animal Adventure, and many more. Many of the games require a download and require your name and email to access.

Grades 9-12

MLA Digital Escape Room

These challenges help familiarize students with MLA style and learn how to distinguish between various in-text and full citations and identify the components of an MLA-formatted paper. Once completed, students receive a score and certificate!

Grades 6-12

History Breakout Template

Unlock the keys to history with gamified activities and an escape room template that you can use as-is or personalize with your content by adding audio, video, multimedia, text, and interactive images.

Grades 4-12

Virtual Escape Room Tools

Discover cool tools for your escapes, such as a virtual escape room timer for tracking game progress, a random group generator to facilitate team assignments, a team name generator to inspire creative team identities, and a secret agent name generator.

Grades 4-12

Mirror Room Escape

Challenge your students to solve puzzles and find hidden clues to escape a mysterious mirrored room. Students must use critical thinking as they analyze their surroundings, decipher patterns, and experiment with different strategies to progress.

Grades 2-12

Google Forms

Teachers can use Google Forms to build digital escape games by creating sequential puzzles with conditional logic, turning any subject into an engaging mystery adventure. Students must answer correctly to advance to the next clue on the form.

Grades 3-12

Online Escape Room Templates

Genially's escape room templates provide a variety of interactive and customizable digital escape room experiences that allow teachers to create engaging, gamified learning activities where students solve puzzles and answer questions.

Grades 8-12

Room Escape Maker

Browse the games others have created to find ideas on how to use this site, then click Create Game to start. Choose a canvas or background and follow the prompts to add items and clues to your escape room.

Grades 4-12

Room Escape Resources

Discover resources that will help you create a digital escape room, including encryption tools (QR code creator, Morse code, and more), “fake” generators, simulators, digital imaging and mapping tools, puzzle creators, timers, tutorials, and more.

Grades 5-12

Save the Planet Breakout

Can your students save the planet and break free from this escape room? Use this template to create an engaging and interactive activity that takes students through four missions to learn about sustainability using windmills, forests, animals, and more.

This Week at TeachersFirst

We’re excited to invite you to our first fall OK2Ask virtual workshop this week! We’re also sharing a curated collection of additional escape game resources and a related blog post. Read the details below!