🕵 Breakout! Spy School Style 🕵

After the popularity and success of the last breakout (see previous post), it was time to design another in which could students could participate during our advisory time. The theme this time was spy school, and students worked as though this was their final test before graduating spy school.

Six groups worked through several clues--and red herrings!--to find and open four locks, including a padlock & key, direction lock, word lock, and 4-digit lock. One clue even took students to the bookcases to find the right book and the answer they needed.

Students collaborated to work through the clues, talking through likely lock and combination possibilities. Overall, four of the six groups were able to break out (break into?) in the time allotted.

Successful "spies" earned a "graduation gift" of fruit snacks if they were able to open all of the locks and get into their boxes. 

By the end of our time together, students were already asking about the next breakout, so it's time to start planning the next one!