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Survival Scenario Escape Room Game – Team Building Icebreaker for End of Year

Grade Level:

6-12

Subjects:

Back to School, First Week of School, End of the Year, Classroom Fun & Games

Standards (CCSS)

SL.6.1, SL.7.1, SL.8.1, SL.9-10.1, SL.11-12.1, SL.6.4, SL.7.4, SL.8.4, SL.9-10.4, SL.11-12.4, SL.6.6, SL.7.6, SL.8.6, SL.9-10.6, SL.11-12.6, L.6.1, L.7.1, L.8.1, L.9-10.1, L.11-12.1, L.6.3, L.7.3, L.8.3, L.9-10.3, L.11-12.3

Learning Expectations (Ontario)

A1: Exploring and Interpreting Texts; B1: Oral Communication Skills; D1: Developing Ideas and Organizing Content; D2: Drafting and Revising Texts; D3: Applying Knowledge of Conventions

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Challenge your class with this immersive Survival Scenario Escape Room! Students collaborate to solve four space-themed missions using logic, critical thinking, and communication. Includes digital and print formats, perfect for team building, brain breaks, or icebreakers.

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Description

Foster team building with this immersive Survival Scenario Escape Room Game! This space-themed activity engages students in critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving as they work together to escape disaster in deep space. Includes digital and print versions!

 

Included with this Survival Scenario Escape Room Game:

  • 4 Survival Scenario Mission Puzzles – Digital & Print
    • Mission 1: Essential Items Crossword
    • Mission 2: Ship Repair Matching
    • Mission 3: Rescue Plan – Missing X
    • Mission 4: Final Escape – Break the Code
  • Student Welcome Guide
    • Storyline + Mission Overview
  • Mission Task Cards
  • Differentiated Reading Passages
  • Complete Teacher Instructions and Prep Guide
  • Mission Answer Key

 

How to Use This Survival Scenario Escape Room Activity:

This Survival Scenario Escape Room Game is perfect as a back-to-school icebreaker for team building, an end-of-the-year activity, or a high-engagement brain break to promote critical thinking and cooperation in a fun, immersive format.

You can begin by introducing the storyline with the Student Welcome Guide. Students are cast as the crew of Spaceball One, a futuristic spaceship left stranded after a catastrophic meteor shower. With oxygen running low and essential systems failing one by one, the team’s survival depends on their ability to solve four increasingly complex missions before time runs out. This Survival Scenario Escape Room setting immediately sparks curiosity and sets the tone for collaborative problem-solving.

For the paper-based version of the game:
Divide your class into small teams. Each team will receive a set of Mission Task Cards, which contain detailed instructions for completing each of the four mission challenges. These missions are designed to engage different types of learners and require a variety of critical thinking strategies.

  • Mission 1 is a themed crossword puzzle that focuses on identifying essential survival items. This task requires vocabulary knowledge, logical deduction, and spatial organization.

  • Mission 2 involves ship repair logic matching, encouraging students to connect cause-and-effect relationships to restore crucial systems aboard the spaceship.

  • Mission 3 challenges students to decode a corrupted distress signal. This task builds pattern recognition and analytical decoding skills.

  • Mission 4 presents a final cipher puzzle for escape. Students must work together to decipher clues that will lead them to the final escape code and secure their team’s survival.

All teams must collaborate to solve each challenge and collect the code words needed to advance. Once all missions are completed successfully, the final codewords form the solution to escape the doomed ship in this Survival Scenario Escape Room.

Students will use the Survival Scenario Escape Room Mission Worksheets for each task. These printable worksheets are structured to guide students step-by-step, ensuring they stay organized and focused as they work through each challenge. The worksheets also include embedded codeword prompts that help them track their progress and unlock the next mission. It’s worth noting that one of the worksheets involves advanced preparation—teachers will need to cut out specific puzzle pieces before gameplay begins.

Use the Differentiated Crossword Support Passages to provide optional support as students complete the crossword puzzle.

  • Reading Passage A uses the same sentences as the crossword clues, offering a more direct accommodation.
  • Reading Passage B includes the same vocabulary words used organically in different contexts, encouraging students to infer the correct answers without relying on the exact clue phrasing.

To ensure accountability and track overall progress, an Answer Sheet is included for each team. This sheet helps students document their codewords and confirm their completion of each mission. Once finished, the teams can check their answers against the provided Answer Key to see if they’ve successfully completed the escape room.

To consolidate learning and add another layer of versatility, a digital version of the Survival Scenario Escape Room is also available. To facilitate the Digital Escape Room Activity, simply follow the clear step-by-step instructions provided within the resource. Teachers should ensure students have access to Google Drive®, as the digital tasks are hosted in that environment. The Google Forms version simulates the same thrilling narrative and mission progression but in a completely paperless format, making it ideal for distance learning or tech-friendly classrooms.

This Survival Scenario Escape Room is a highly flexible resource and can be used across multiple subject areas. It encourages communication, leadership, and resilience as students take on time-sensitive challenges and rely on each other to succeed. Whether you’re using it in the first week of school to foster collaboration or bringing it in at the end of the year as a fun wrap-up activity, it’s sure to engage and energize your students.

Teachers appreciate that the game is ready-to-use with minimal setup required and includes all the components needed for smooth classroom implementation. The Survival Scenario Escape Room is a unique blend of education and excitement that will leave a lasting impression on students while reinforcing essential 21st-century skills.

 

✨ Kindly note that due to copyright restrictions, this resource is not editable. This is a common practice within the online marketplace in order to protect the clipartists and software providers that have authorized their intellectual property for the development of this resource.

 

⭒ For classrooms utilizing Google Classroom® ⭒

To access the digital version of these worksheets, simply follow the instructions within the resource to copy the files directly to your Google Drive®.

Additional Product Information

What grade level is this resource designed for?
This resource is designed for the following grade levels: 6-12.

Are these resources editable?
Kindly note that due to copyright restrictions, Mondays Made Easy resources are not editable unless otherwise noted. This is a common practice within the teacher-author marketplace in order to protect the clip artists and software providers that have authorized their intellectual property for the development of these resources.

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