Constitution Day Escape Room

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Spend Constitution Day with this Constitution Escape Room! Your upper elementary students will love this escape room! Give them a break from packets and computer work with this engaging, low-prep escape room! You don’t have to save this for Constitution Day; you can also use this escape room for your U.S. Constitution Unit!

This escape room is perfect for upper elementary classrooms! You can use this to kick off your Government Unit, for an overall review, or during Constitution Day.

This escape room includes 5 “tasks” for students to work through, plus all the teacher things you’ll need.

Escape Room Tasks Includes:

1. Puzzle of George Washington

2. Cryptogram of facts about the Constitution

3. Passage about the process of amendments to the Constitution

4. Matching sections of the Preamble to their meaning

5. Word Search with Constitution vocabulary

For the Teacher:

1. Table Cards and Directions Cards for each task

2. Student Sheets: Code Recorder and Notes

3. Breakout Google Form: (no boxes, no locks!)

4. Detailed Teacher Directions

5. At-a-Glance Teacher Directions (tasks, supples, and copies needed)

6. Step-by-Step Checklist/Teacher To-Do List

7. Tips for Implementation

8. Breakout Signs: 6 signs for winning teams and 6 signs for all other teams

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Tips to Use: 

This escape room is super flexible! The tasks do not have to be completed in order or all at once. You can adjust it to fit your classroom and your schedule. The typical 5th grade classroom can complete this escape room within a one-hour class period. Of, course, this will depend on your students. If you’re really tight on time, I have a couple of recommendations for you! 

Some ideas for using this escape room if you’re short on time: 

1. One option is that you could have students complete a longer task prior to the “escape room” day. For example, have students complete the word search or read the passage the day before without giving them the code sheets. This could save time at those task stations. 

2. You could also give students the opportunity to use a “cheat” where you give them an answer to help them keep moving along. Maybe limit to 2 cheats, or whatever you think!

3. Another idea is to set a timer on the puzzle (task 1) or word search (task 5) so they don’t waste all their time there. That might help manage their time. If you’re wanting it to be a “race”, you could use a point system and either add or deduct based on the number of cheats used or if they ran out of time. 

4. The word search (task 5) probably takes the longest, so you could skip this task altogether and just give them the code as a “freebie”. 

It’s definitely flexible in that you don’t need to solve one to move to another- you can certainly skip one if needed. 

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Tips for Implementing this Constitution Escape Room:

1. Use groups of 4 students or less

2. Post multiple sets of stations to avoid crowding during large class sizes

Example: post two sets of each station/task

3. Set CLEAR EXPECTATIONS before beginning: 

1. Whisper (you don’t want other teams hearing your answers!)

2. Stay with your group - you cannot “divide and conquer” and don’t wander off

3. No running and Be nice

4. Participate at every station

5. Don’t crowd a station. If a group is there, go to a different station. 

4. Set consequences for not meeting your expectations

1. 30-second “jail time lockdown” delay for groups or students

5. Don’t hog the “breakout” computers! If the group does not “breakout” the first time, the WHOLE group must go back to the tasks. 

6. Create a QR code for the breakout station for a quicker entry!

7. Use black lights to add some fun! 

1. Highlighters

2. Neon paper

3. White string

My easy-to-use Constitution Escape Room includes all the pages you see in the images above. I created this knowing you are super busy, so it is LOW PREP for a non-digital escape room. Click here to purchase the complete Constitution Escape Room.

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Constitution Escape Room

Engaging printable escape room (no locks, no boxes) for upper elementary classrooms

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