Morse Code Escape Room ELA Social Studies Reading Comprehension
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Description
Introduce a STEM and Social Studies lesson about Morse Code with this engaging and rigorous escape room, The Dits and Dahs of Morse Code. After watching the video hook, they'll be ready for close reading the informational text to find all the clues and decode the final mystery phrase.
Using Morse Code they'll discover where a friend hid a present.
Students will also learn that they can send messages in Morse Code using a flashlight.
The Escape Room Premise:
- ► Students have a hidden gift from a friend. But they can't find it until they can decode the clue using Morse Code. In order to read it, students will:
- ► Read and reread the text
- ► Answer the questions
- ► Use the codes in the answers
- ► Discover the history of Morse Code and how it works
- ► Read and send a message with a friend using Morse Code.
Students begin with a leveled reading comprehension passage and 16 questions. The Morse Code Escape Room will have your students learning the telegraph code that revolutionized long distance communication.
The reading passage, The Dits and Dahs of Morse Code is an original informative text written by a teacher (me) about how Samuel Morse invented the code and how it was used with telegraph machines. It's at a reading level for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.
Level up the learning and reading engagement of your students with this World of Braille Escape Room. They'll be having so much fun they won't even realize they're learning! This is a no-prep printable PDF.
- Are you hoping it's a NO-PREP resource? Just print the student pages, cut four decoders, share the video hook, and you're set!
- Are you hoping it's rigorous and meets standards in reading? It meets reading standards for informational texts listed below and inside the resource. The reading includes specific vocabulary. Students must refer back to the details in the text to answer the questions. It also includes an extra activity for writing if you want to extend the learning. Your students will be looking back in the text and rereading to find the answers they need to conquer the challenges.
- 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. You don't need to do anything but print it and give it to your students.
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- 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.
- Language Standards
- L.3.5, 4.5, 4.5b, 5.5, 5.5b
- Reading Standards for Informative Text
- RI.3.1, 4.1, 5.1
- RI.3.2, 4.2, 5.2
- RI.3.10, 4.10, 5.10
- Reading Standards Foundational Skills
- RF.3.4, 4.4, 5.4
- Writing Standards (if you include the optional writing piece)
- W.3.3, 4.3, 5.3
- W.3.10, 4.10, 5.10
- NGSS Standards
- 4-PS4-3
➤Who this is for:
▶️3rd grade
▶️4th grade
▶️5th grade
▶️Homeschool
➤What this resource includes:
- ✅A video hook to get you started (It's the same video you see in the preview above.)
- ✅4 pages of teacher notes and ideas
- ✅2 page informative text, The Dits and Dahs of Morse Code, (written by Suzanne Pitner)
- ✅4 challenges with instructions and decoders
- ✅Lined writing paper for an extension writing activity
- ✅The optional activity is to send a receive messages with friends.
- ✅All teacher answer keys
- ⭐Check out the preview to see examples of what's included!⭐
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