This Halloween escape room is a super fun and engaging way for students to practice math and reading skills! It is a low-prep activity with a Haunted House theme designed for third to fourth grade. (It will likely be very challenging for most 3rd graders if used at the beginning of the year.)
 
Start by reading an exciting storyline that sends your students to a dark, abandoned house. Once inside, they discover the doors are locked - and the only way to get out is by solving puzzles that will unlock each room.
 
Each escape room has its own reading or math task. These include:
 
Solving multiplication and division problems
Reading informational text and answering text-based comprehension questions
Calculating elapsed time
Spelling words that contain silent letters
 
The informational reading passages are about bats and the Salem witch trials.
 
There are 5 rooms to escape. Completing a task correctly will reveal a code that unlocks the door. If the code is correct, they advance to the next room. If not, try again!
 
Everything is included to set up your escape room:
 
Windows for your room envelopes
Task sheets for each room
Recording sheets
Answer keys
Teacher directions
Student directions
 
This escape room has 2 options for unlocking the rooms:
Using a device, students enter the code on a special webpage.
Students check their answer against the teacher's answer key.
 
You can choose whichever option works best for your classroom.
 
This activity is very easy to implement. There aren't a bunch of pieces to put together and organize. It allows you to give your students academic tasks wrapped together in a fun, Halloween themed activity without a lot of teacher prep.