"Serial" Nonfiction Podcast Season 1: Engaging Escape Room Review Activity
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This "Serial" Nonfiction Podcast escape room from season one is the perfect activity or review game before a final test to use in your classroom. This escape room uses various clues to direct students to 5 tasks that they will complete in groups. In each task, they will use higher-order thinking skills to solve the tasks and generate a code word that will move them on to the next task. If you are using the Google form included in the product, the form will approve or deny students' code words and give them clues!
Tasks include:
- Task 1: Finishing a police report about the homicide of Hae Min Lee based on reading comprehension
- Task 2: Character analysis crossword puzzle with a word bank (my students loved this one especially!)
- Task 3: A nonfiction article about the DNA results that surfaced after the trial where students use task cards to arrange information from the article into a code
- Task 4: Arranging and analyzing the timeline of Jay's story with task cards
- Task 5: Building a case: What is your theory? Who did it? Students will use information from episode 12 to cite evidence and build a case about who they believe murdered Hae Min Lee and why.
There are also answer keys for every task, detailed outlines, clues, hiding spots, and a fun printable for your winners!
Good luck! I hope your students escape!!
FAQ about Escape Rooms:
- How long does the escape room take?
Every class is different. Some classes tend to have students with higher abilities and others with lower. It also depends on the way you taught the podcast. Was it hands-on and students remember most of it? Did your students annotate and remember quotes? Did they mostly listen at home and you're not sure if they heard the whole thing? Keep this in mind when you are trying to gauge the time. I teach at a career center and we read/listened and discussed the entire podcast in class (crazy I know), however, ability level for most of the class is not at grade level. Though they are lovely and bright!! My sophomores completed this escape room in about 45 minutes.
- How long does it take to prepare the materials for this escape room?
It took me about a half hour to print and organize all of these materials/hide the clues. However, I made it so it's very familiar to me. I would recommend that you give yourself about an hour to prepare. I would set it up the night before rather than the day of if you can help it! :) Want to save time for the next time you do this? Keep everything!! Ask students to put everything back in their file folder from task 1 and collect. Maybe even laminate some of the tasks, clues, and task cards. Save it all for next year so it only takes 15 minutes!
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