6 Lock Sherlock, Back to School Team-Building Escape for Middle or High School

⭐ Build classroom community and team-building skills with this digital escape room activity! ⭐ This fully immersive 360° Sherlock Holmes educational digital escape room will help students learn to work together and add to positive classroom culture! ⭐ Engaging and fun this interactive, immersive digital escape has students complete 6 challenges. With no printing, copying, or cutting and a full teacher guide with answers, this Sherlock's Challenge digital activity is ready to use! ⭐

⭐ Now with a new flat version of the escape that is played from one link. No Google form is used! Easier to navigate and fewer filter issues, it's all virtual and all ready to play, simply re-download to get the additional escape! ⭐ Players will enter answers into the interactive clue and find out if they are correct on the spot!⭐

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THE STORY:

You and a few friends excitedly knock on the door of 221B Baker Street in London to meet your favorite detective Sherlock, when the door creaks open! Tentatively you step inside and start up the stairs. As you enter the study Mrs. Hudson breathlessly appears behind you and exclaims, “We’ve been expecting you! Sherlock and Watson have left you with a challenge! If you accept you will have the opportunity to meet them both in person. All the clues you need are located in the study." She concludes with, "Will you accept the challenge?" You begin to explore the study and then slowly respond to Mrs. Hudson, “Yes, we believe we will…this is a most unusual challenge, a most unusual challenge indeed.”

What's inside:

• ⭐CLUE #1: Examine Evidence: Players will click on various points of interest in a set of papers left on Sherlock's desk. From the information, they gather they will come to a conclusion as to a famous case Sherlock is currently working on. A hint will appear after approximately 90 seconds.
• ⭐CLUE #2: Footprint Evidence: Players will match 6 suspect shoe prints with the culprit’s shoe print writing down the letter of each suspect in order as they go. The answer is those letters in order.
• ⭐CLUE #3: Decode Cipher: Decode a Vigenere cipher then solve one to get the answer to this lock. Hint will appear after approximately 90 seconds.
• ⭐CLUE#4: Deductive Reasoning: Players will solve three deductive reasoning problems with multiple-choice options. They can click until they get the answer correct. When all three are answered correctly the answer to the clue will appear.
• ⭐CLUE #5: Think Like Sherlock: Map and Coordinates. Find the five locations on the map and will note the coordinates for each location. The answer is the coordinates in order.
• ⭐CLUE #6: Solve a Riddle: Players will solve the riddle to find a hidden object and solve the escape!

Remember this is supposed to be a challenge! Allow the players to think for a while before giving more hints! This is where critical thinking skills come in. For the harder puzzles, hints are included, but won’t appear until 90 seconds have passed.

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE INSTANT DOWNLOAD?

⭐PDF with game link, instructions, and answer key

ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

⭐ Game lasts approximately 45 minutes, depending on the age and number of people playing

⭐ Best suited for ages 10 - 100

⭐ No printing required!

SET UP:

Just a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet is needed to play. If players are in separate locations you will need some form of screen-sharing platform, like Zoom.

Why teach it?

• It's a perfect way to set up a positive classroom culture and environment
• It reinforces logic and reasoning skills
• Teaches students about deductive reasoning and evidence collecting
• It promotes team building, cooperative learning, and deductive reasoning
• Perfect as a Team Building Escape.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:

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As all digital escapes from A Space to Create Art are, this one is a magical resource that intensely engages Players. Watching them work on these escapes adventures so excitedly is wonderful... Thank you SO much for creating them and making them available! Once in the escape, Players will click the red start button. This is a video that takes Players through the setup of the escape and gives the Players instructions on how to play. There are six clues/locks inside plus extras!

- Sophie M.

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Digital Escape Room Tip for Teachers:

There are many times when students will need to rely on reading instructions to get them to the next step. They will want you to give them the answers, but all the information is there for them to discover. Breaking students into teams really helps keep kids engaged and allows them to collaborate making this kind of activity even more fun. You will need to open both the PDF and the Easel Activity to access the link to the escape/instructions, as well as assign the digital notes sheet in Easel if you want the answers.

CLICK HERE to test that this escape room and the websites inside will work on your school computers. BE SURE TO CHECK ON A STUDENT'S COMPUTER

Before purchasing, please check to make sure you and your students will be able to use these sites by clicking on the test website link above. It is your responsibility to make sure the links will work before purchasing.

©2021 A Space to Create. All rights reserved. Concept, Game Play, and Environment background created by Sabrina Wingren. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, sell or profit in any way from the use of this escape room without permission. This includes sites such as outschool where you are teaching a lesson for profit.