April Fools Day Escape Room Prank ELA Puzzles Upper Elementary

The perfect April Fools Day prank for a teacher to play on the class is here! Artificial intelligence has arrived to take over the school. With six word puzzles and cryptograms, they'll be focused and busy trying to save the school from an invasion of robot teachers!

The April Fools Day Escape Room Premise:

• ► The students arrive at school to find out that all the teachers have vanished! An android is teaching their class!
• ► To find out what happened to their teacher, students will:
• ► Do a puzzle to find letters within words in a document.
• ► Hunt for missing letters in a poem.
• ► Follow a maze to find letters to the next clue.
• ► Solve a cryptogram.
• ► Follow directions closely to solve six puzzles
• At the end, when they've decoded the four number lock, they'll find out they've been pranked!

The mission reading passage, My Teacher is a Robot! is an original informative text written by a teacher (me) about teachers disappearing from school and a robot taking their places. It's at a reading level for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.

This is a just for fun type of escape room activity. I know it's a challenge to find a new April Fools Day joke to play on your students. This one is totally new!

This is a no-prep printable PDF. Nothing to cut, glue, or put in envelopes.

• Are you hoping it's a NO-PREP resource? Just print the student pages and six puzzles, share the mission, and you're set!

• Are you hoping it's digital? Sorry, the April Fools Day Escape Room is strictly a PDF printable version.

• Are you wondering if you can pull off an escape room in your class? No worries! I've included lesson plan instructions and a three page teacher guide. There's no envelopes, no hiding things around the room, and no extra work for you. It's as easy as printing out the student pages and letting them work on the challenges.

This practically NO-PREP resource is in printable PDF format. All your students need are pencils, and some crayons or colored pencils.

What Teachers Are Saying About My Other Escape Rooms

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ For Legend of Sleepy Hollow Escape Room

• My students absolutely loved this activity. They stayed engaged and really worked to solve the different puzzles. ---Delann P.
• My students loved this escape room! They had fun figuring out the clues and I love how it hit on skills we were learning in class. Thank you! ---Set 4th and Shine
• Love an escape room and this one is so well done. My kids loved it. ---Toni in Primary

CCSS Standards covered: for grade 3, grade 4 and grade 5.

• Reading Standards Foundational Skills
• RF.3.4, 4.4, 5.4

➤Who this is for:

▶️3rd grade

▶️4th grade

▶️5th grade

▶️Homeschool

➤What this resource includes:

• ✅4 pages of teacher notes and ideas
• ✅An engaging mission, My Teacher is a Robot! (written by Suzanne Pitner)
• ✅ A video hook to heighten anticipation (This is the video you see in the preview above.)
• ✅6 challenges with instructions and room to solve them
• ✅Answer sheets for recording the mystery words and code numbers
• ✅The certificate of completion is the final decoder prank
• ✅All teacher instructions and answer keys

• ⭐Check out the preview to see examples of what's included!⭐

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