Holidays Around the World Escape Room ELA December Activity | Distance Learning

Get your students excited about learning with this Holidays Around the World Escape Room Challenge! Throughout the activity, students work collaboratively with partners or in groups to solve language arts related challenges and find clues in order to save the holidays around the world by restoring the holiday cheer that the Grinch stole!

This escape room is perfect for in-person, hybrid, or virtual learning as it includes both a printable PDF AND digital version.

Featured Holidays:

• Christmas
• Hanukkah
• Kwanzaa
• Las Posadas
• Diwali
• Chinese New Year

Featured ELA Focus & Skills:

• Nonfiction reading comprehension
• Using text evidence to support answers
• Parts of speech
• Comparing & contrasting
• Vocabulary & context clues
• Inferring
• *Some character ed/social emotional learning is sprinkled in as well 🙂

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

Digital Version Includes:

• Teacher guide
• Answer Key
• Link to Google Form that houses the following:
  • Escape Challenge Problem Prompt
  • Links to 5 ELA Challenge Tasks/Puzzles on Google Slides with moveable parts
  • Completion Certificate

Printable PDF Version Includes:

• Teacher guide
• Escape Challenge Prompt
• 5 Challenge Puzzles (Color & B/W)
• Hint Cards
• Completion Certificates (for groups or individuals)
• Answer Key

Reasons why I LOVE using Escape Challenges with my students:

• They are academically rigorous and challenging
• They are an engaging way to review content skills and/or strategies
• They reinforce social skills, such as teamwork, collaboration, respect
• Students learn to manage time appropriately and focus under pressure
• They gamify learning in a meaningful way
• They encourage independence and risk taking
• They require students to problem solve and think critically

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