Pinned to The tavern cork board A poster that is frayed on top and bottom reads: WANTED: A fist-sized obsidian raven skull with embedded flakes of gold, an emerald for one eye, and a ruby for the other. No, I didn’t just wake up with a weird craving. It’s mine, and it may have been misplaced
Epic poems, like Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid, chronicle the tales of heroes set against the backdrop of historical events. They are often lengthy, and typically include narratives featuring superhuman feats, wild adventures, and stylized language. While we usually equate epic poetry with ancient times, the form has also been used by modern poets. From Lord Byron’s comic use of the epic form in Don Juan, to Ezra Pound’s The Cantos and Alice Notley’s The Descent of Alette, this form has been used throughout the ages. Try your hand at writing the beginning of an epic poem.
A DIY Escape room helps kids foster a love of travel and culture. Follow our 10 steps on how to create an escape room for your kids.
Use Escape Rooms in ELA to promote collaboration and critical thinking. Here's how to develop and set up a successful escape room for your students.
Welcome to our Escape the Room worksheets section, where you'll find a collection of fun and challenging worksheets designed to help students build their problem-solving skills and critical thinking skills. With our Escape the Room worksheets, your students will get practice with critical thinking, deductive reasoning, and problem-solving skills with the puzzles and find their
Keep your clever kid occupied with this tricky grille cipher.
"Narrowed it down to 156 culprits after tonight."
How to transform your idea into a fun puzzle adventure for your friends and family. Speed up creation time, avoid pitfalls, and CRUSH IT on game night.
Library Escape Rooms are really big right now, so I tried to design this program so that any library can try to duplicate it. Because making something like this is kinda daunting–where do yo…
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The escape room that we made last year was so much fun that I knew that we had to do it again. But we can’t just do the same one, that would be boring and kids would already know most of the…
So, I started a new STEM adventure and I really had no idea how my students might react. After each class completed this little task I asked for some feedback – which is kind of a dangerous thing to do with fifth graders. Nevertheless, I asked and here is what I got, “After three years of…
How to swear like a 19th-century street urchin.
The escape room that we made last year was so much fun that I knew that we had to do it again. But we can’t just do the same one, that would be boring and kids would already know most of the…
Give your students a taste of adventure with over 20 free digital escape rooms to try at home or at school. Doing distance learning? These are perfect!
Amazing heroes and adventures illustrations by Rhode Island, NY based artists Jon Foster. Jon has a very strong following among the Sci-fi / Sci-fantasy
A DIY Escape room helps kids foster a love of travel and culture. Follow our 10 steps on how to create an escape room for your kids.
