Cell Organelles Digital Escape Room Activity for Halloween Science

Are you looking for a Halloween-themed Science activity that allows your students to improve their skills and knowledge of identifying cell organelles? This engaging and fun digital escape room with two versions (24 problems in total) is a no-prep task that helps your students review recognizing structures within plant and and animal cells, and their functions.

The Google Sheet™ is self-checking. Correct answers open the locks and release hidden Halloween-linked images. Once all three locks in a row have been opened, the next three questions are revealed. The opened locks in this activity are meant to represent things that students either collect or 'escape from' during their visit of the 'haunted house' for that Halloween-feeling. Opening the last row of locks will reveal a final riddle in form of a word scramble that needs to be solved in order to 'escape' the haunted house. Depending on your students, they might need a little help with this, as it is a combined Halloween and Science pun.

Two activities with twelve questions each are included in this resource. The resource uses Google Sheets™. Students need their own Google account to use this resource as intended. An answer key and student recording sheets are provided.

Prior knowledge/skills required:

To get most out of this activity, students should be able to identify the following cell organelles / structures from diagrams, definitions or analogies, as well as being able to tell the difference between animal and plant cells:

• nucleus
• cell membrane
• cytoplasm
• vacuole
• cell wall
• mitochondria
• ribosome
• endoplasmic reticulum
• chloroplast
• lysosome
• Golgi bodies/apparatus

Standards:

NGSS MS-LS1-1 and LS1-2: From Molecules to Organisms, TEKS 7.12.D: Organisms and Environment, and VA SOL.LS.2.b and VA SOL.LS.2.c.

How to use this resource:

⭐ Part of a stations activity

⭐ Part of a choice board activity

⭐ Early finishers

⭐ Formative assessment of (newly learned) concepts

⭐ Mid- or end-of-unit review

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*** IMPORTANT ***

Please ensure that your district allows the use of Google Sheets™. If you have not created a free Google account, you will need to do so before using this activity. To use the resource as intended, your students will also need their own Google account. These resources will not work in Excel.

If assigning the activity on Google Classroom, make sure you select ‘make a copy for each student’. If you are using a different platform, please ensure that students are working on their own copy of the activity.

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