Contents:
Programming Kits
Breakout EDU escape room scenarios
District Escape Room Kits
Programming Kits
Breakout EDU escape room scenarios
District Escape Room Kits
To request these kits, and those listed on the Educational Programmer page enter your requests here: https://forms.gle/wCTg3RuB7tShLmdn9 please enter each request separately.
Programming Kits
PA One Book Kits
Mother Goose on the Loose Kits
Stem Kits
BreakoutEDU Escape Room Scenarios
To request kits, email or call Marcia.
District Escape Rooms
These escape rooms have a kit of supplies, and a how-to guide to follow. Cheers to the libraries who have developed these and donated them!
Haunted Escape Room (donated by Corry Public Library)
Harry Potter Themed Escape Room (donated by Corry Public Library)*
To request kits, email or call Marcia.
*For copyright reasons, I recommend not using Harry Potter's name exactly. Universal Studios has been known to sue small entities and even individuals over infringement.
Programming Kits
PA One Book Kits
Mother Goose on the Loose Kits
Stem Kits
BreakoutEDU Escape Room Scenarios
- ABC Zoo is Locked!
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Early Elementary, Elementary
- ABC ZOO needs your help. Zoe the zookeeper arrived at work today and realized she didn’t have her keys! She has searched high and low and cannot find them anywhere. She remembers locking a box before she left last night. Can you help Zoe get into the box and look for her keys? The zoo opens in 45 minutes so please hurry! People are already starting the line up at the entrance and the elephants are getting hungry!
- Anne of Green Gables -
- Ideal Group Size: Small Group (8-12) / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Middle School
- A library patron is looking for the book Anne of Green Gables. But someone (library gremlins or ghosts?) accidentally locked it in a box! Help the librarian by solving the clues to retrieve the book.
- Apollo to the Moon -
- Ideal Group Size: Small Group (8-12) / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary/Middle School
- You have been working with your fellow retired astronomers for months to help open the Apollo Museum of History. The morning of the opening, you get to the museum early to double check that everything is ready to go for the busy day ahead. When you open the doors, your jaw drops. Everything is mixed up, out of order, or missing. What happened?!?! You have 45 minutes before the doors open for you to give your big opening ceremony speech. There’s no time to write another one! Can you fix everything and find the speech in time? Good luck!
- Arrrrgh! -
- Ideal Group Size: Small Group (8-12) / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary
- Arggh!The pirates are in trouble! They have lost their treasure and could use your help. Can you help Pat, Polly, and Pam get their treasure back? They think it is locked in this box! You have 45 minutes to open this box and save their treasure!
- Back to the Future -
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: High School, Adult
- Save the Clocktower! Please listen closely as time is not on our side! We must act swiftly if we are to save the clocktower. I’m sorry...let me go back...back in time. On Nov, 12 1955 a bolt of lightening struck the clocktower and rendered it useless. The clock has not worked since that fateful night. Today, Oct. 26th, 1985 the clocktower, on Mayor Wilson’s initiative, is being scheduled to be replaced with a more modern clock...perhaps even digital. Last night our Preservation Society offices were broken into and all of our petitions were stolen. We at the Hill Valley Preservation Society need your help to save this treasured piece of history. Please hurry...we only have 45-minutes to get our petitions to the county officers or it will be the end of the clock tower.
- Breakout Intellectual Freedom
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: High School/Adult
- A group of concerned citizens have formed a group, the Society To Understand Pupils’ Interests & Desires to better protect students’ from inappropriate ideas and materials. This group has locked up all your intellectual freedom rights. In order to have full access to your rights, you must break into the box within 45 minutes. 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' ~George Santayana
- Camp-out In Fairytale Forrest
- Content Area: ELA, THEME
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary/Middle School
- You and your class have planned a camping trip. It would be great, but your teacher didn’t read the map, and your expedition has brought you into Fairytale Forest. You know the fairytales, but everything else looks so modern! You’ve got insects, leaky tents, and none of the comforts of home. On top of that, there’s an evil witch on the loose, and she’s sniffed out your trail. Use your knowledge of theme to escape the forest before time runs out, or you just might be her dinner. The time starts now…
- Can't Catch Me! I'm The Gingerbread-man!
- Content Area: Seasonal Games, Team Building, ELA
- Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary
- I need to get away! You don’t want to be a gingerbread cookie on Christmas day!I ran through the classroom where the kids were all taking a bite! I scurried through so I didn’t have to put up a fight!
I stopped by the post office to see if there was mail for me! On my way out I found a key!
I ran through the market hoping to buy a treat! The hungry kids were still chasing me, I am what they want to eat!
I tried to escape the children and hid in disguise!
I went to Santa’s house, thinking that was wise!
Dashing out of Santa’s house, my buttons came undone! Picking them up, was so not fun!
Look! Look! Look! As hard as you can,
You can’t see me, I’m the gingerbread man!
- Cracking the Dewey Code
- Content Area: Library, Dewey Decimal
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary
- You checked out an alien book from the 000 section of your library yesterday. You forgot it on the table, so you went back before school to find it. Oh no! The aliens escaped from the book and stole some of the Dewey Decimal numbers from the spine labels of other books! Now five different sections are missing their numbers! Without the numbers, no one knows how to find anything or where to put the books back! The library will be a disaster! You know the librarian will here in 45 minutes, and you want this whole mess fixed before they return. Can you solve all five puzzles to get the numbers back on the books before the librarian returns?
- Dr Frankenstein's Spooktacular Party
- Game Designer: Tracy Pierce
- Content Area: Halloween, Team Building
- Recommended Ages: Elementary/Middle Grades
- Dr. Frankenstein is so excited to once again, celebrate Halloween by hosting a great big party and he has asked you to help him prepare. He needs help with the planning and shopping and he has asked you to make the invitations with directions to his house so his guests can get to the Spooktacular party on time!
- Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel
- Content Area: Hanukkah, Seasonal
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary
- It’s time to play the Dreidel game and sing the Dreidel song, but we have forgotten the words! We cannot play the Dreidel game unless we first sing the song. Plus we need our game pieces! The song lyrics and our game pieces are locked in the large Breakout EDU box. We will need to decipher these Hanukkah clues to unlock the locks, and Breakout In Song!
- Elf Breakout
- Content Area: Christmas, Seasonal
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggest Time: 45 Minutes
- Recommended Ages: Middle School and High School
- Santa gave Buddy the important job of holding the keys to his sleigh. Some mischievous elves played a trick on Buddy and locked the keys inside the box. Santa is supposed to leave to deliver presents to the world soon! Can you help Buddy save Christmas?
- Elf in a Box
- Content Area: Seasonal, Christmas, Winter Holiday
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary, Middle School
- Scenario: 'Tis the season to be merry and mischievous... And those silly elves are at it again! I don't know why they're called Elves on Shelves when they never stay on the shelf for very long, or stay anywhere very long for that matter! But, ______ (insert elf name) has messed up this time! He/she thought it'd be funny to lock up some Christmas cheer and decorations as a game, but ended up locking himself/herself inside the Breakout EDU Box! Luckily, ______ the Elf left clues around the room before getting stuck in the box! Solve the clues, unlock the box, and free that silly elf so he/she can report back to Santa on time tonight!
- Fact or Fiction
- Content Area: Library Skills, Fact or Fiction
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Early Elementary, Elementary
- Max was home sick from school. His mom picked up his homework packet, but his little sister got to it first and mixed it all up. The fact and fiction information got all mixed up and we have to help sort it for him so he can finish his homework.
- Froggy Gets Dressed
- Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary
- Oh no! Froggy has woken up from his winter’s nap! He needs to go back to sleep, but he is so excited about the snow outside. He must be confused from waking up from his winter’s nap because he has a hard time remembering how to dress himself. It is our job to help Froggy sort, count, and find his clothes. By solving clues, opening locks, and using our own thinking caps, we can help Froggy with his clothes and then return to his nice, soft, warm bed for his winter’s nap.
- Galactic Space Race
- Content Area: Math, Computer Science
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class/ Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary
- NASA has just announced they are hosting their first Galactic Space Race! Students, teachers, families, and pets are all invited to climb aboard a rocket ship on an adventure they will not forget. The rocket ship that can visit all of the planets, moons, and stars in the Milky Way in the fastest possible time will be awarded their very own spacecraft to continue travel in space. Do you have what it takes to figure out how to start and navigate the rocket ship in the Milky Way? We’re in a race against time!
- Halloween Haunted House Gets Ghosted
- CONTENT AREA: Holiday, Halloween
- GRADE LEVEL(S): 4-8
- This year, your parents decided to make your home into a haunted house for all of the neighbors to come and enjoy. On the night of Halloween, you gather all of your friends and head to your house. When you knock on the door expecting your parents to start the haunted house, something spooky happens instead...3 ghosts come to the locked door! He says to you, “Hello human friends. Instead of you walking door to door to collect candy or going through a boring haunted house, let’s see if you can make it through a real haunted house filled with some of my most ghostly and scary friends. You must wind your way through the witches and goblins to find your parents or else they will turn into pumpkins! You better hurry!”
- Haunted Hotel
- CONTENT AREA: Holiday, Halloween
- GRADE LEVEL(S): 9-12
- One year ago on Halloween night, a team of paranormal investigators traveled to the abandoned - and haunted - Hollywood Hills Hotel. When the team didn’t return, no one had the nerve to find out what happened to them. Now, you and your Supernatural Paranormal Investigative Team (also known as SPIT) are heading up to the hotel again on Halloween Night to see if you can track down what happened to that team one year ago. When you arrive, you find their abandoned equipment from one year ago and a strange locked trunk. Soon you discover the team managed to open up a portal between the living and dead, and now it’s up to you to open the portal again before Halloween is over soon. Can you follow the team’s trail and use teamwork to open the portal and return the team back to the land of the living?
- Help Get the Hubble Back
- Content Area: Earth Science
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School
- The Hubble has been hacked! NASA lost control of the famed space telescope through some insidious computer piracy, and the perpetrator has hidden the means to regain control in a small box, along with a series of clues to open the multiple locks. Can your group of young astronomers figure out the codes, unlock the box, and help NASA utilize Hubble again to explore the galaxies?
- HMS Terror
- CONTENT AREA: Teambuilding, Holidays (Halloween)
- GRADE LEVEL(S): 6-12, Adult
- In the spring of 1845, the best-provisioned Arctic expedition in history, HMS Terror, set sail in search of a passage across the northern seas. Captained by famed British explorer John Franklin, the ship became trapped by ice and disappeared somewhere off the coast of Canada’s Victoria Strait. Discovered in 2014, the sunken ship became nothing but the mere talk of legends until suddenly, in the fall of 2019, it rose eerily up from the depths of its watery grave. Citizens of the neighboring villages began to wonder and share fabled stories about the crew’s mysterious fate. Thanks to modern technology, scientists have been able to explore the nearly pristine contents of the wreckage. What happened to the survivors? What caused their disappearance? Was it a crash? Was it disease? Can you help figure out the fate of the ship and crew before the ghostly contents decay and become nothing more than a relic of the past?
- Holiday Breakout
- Game Designer: Kristi Barber
- Content Area: Seasonal, Christmas, Winter Holiday
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary, Middle School
- The Principal locked the half day schedule in the box for safe keeping but now he can’t remember all the combinations. If he can’t get the box open the students will be forced to go to school for a full day before break. Help the principal unlock the box before the dismissal bell in 40 minutes or you will have to go a full day on December 21st.
- Holiday Express
- Game Designer: Megan Keller
- Content Area: Seasonal, Christmas
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 30 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Early Elementary
- This is Santa and I have a mission for you! I have a surprise for you, but I have kept it safe in a wooden box that I left with your teacher. You will need to work together and use your knowledge from The Polar Express to solve the clues I’ve left for you! Good luck! I can’t wait for you to get your surprise!
- Let it Snow!
- Content Area: Team Building, General Knowledge
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary
- I LOVE snow, but I get so cold playing outside in it after awhile. I found a way to make snow for us to build with inside. I mean it isn’t real snow; but will feed this lack-of-snow feeling. However, I inadvertently locked the directions and ingredients in the box and now need help getting to them.
- Library Skills Save the Day
- Content Area: Library Orientation, Team Building
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary, Middle School
- Welcome to _________________ [insert your library name], thank goodness you’re here. I really need your help. Evil Dr. Nirb Egap has just hacked into the Google servers and is threatening to shut down Google completely. We all use Google on a regular basis and love and depend on it, we can’t let him shut it down. However, the evil doctor, while he is evil, realizes that we often forget about resources at our fingertips. This locked box contains the code to counteract Dr. Egap’s evil plan. In order to break into the box to retrieve the code you must work together and demonstrate your library skills. You have 30 minutes to complete your mission. Good luck
- Locked in the Library
- Content Area: Library
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary
- Last night the Secret Association of Library Teachers, or SALT, had their monthly meeting here in our library. (I guess it isn't much of a secret!) When I came in today I noticed a few strange things. There’s this large box with all of these padlocks on it and these envelopes. There’s a note too. “Dear Librarian, We left you a treasure but you can only have it if your library users can unlock all of the locks. To unlock the locks those who accept this mission will need to prove their mastery of Destiny. Please put your students in three teams. Give each team an envelope. You have 35 minutes. We will be watching. Begin.
- Mix Up in the Library
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School
- Your local library got a makeover this summer. In their haste to prepare for the new furniture, books, and technology, the librarian and her volunteers had to throw everything into boxes. That means the biographies got mixed up with the fiction, the poetry with the science fiction. She needs your help to figure out the characteristics of each genre so that you can help her get the media center back together. Are you up for the task? You have forty-five minutes to learn all you can about genres so that you’re equal to the task. The opening of the library is depending on you!
- Muggle Mystery
- Content Area: English, Team Building
- Ideal Group Size: Small Groups / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Middle School, High School
- Lord Voldemort has broken into the room and has left the most revealing of secrets. Do the lowly Muggles have what it takes to decipher the clues and Break Out?
- New Sheriff in Town
- Content Area: Reading, Context Clues
- Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary
- The town of Tombstone, Texas is in need of a new Sheriff. Can you solve these puzzles to earn the badge? You will have to use what you have learned about context clues to get the job. REWARD Cold, hard, cash… if you can solve the puzzles in 45 minutes or less!
- New Year Breakout
- Content Area: Seasonal, New Year
- Ideal Group Size: Small Groups / Suggested Time: 35 Minutes
- Recommended Ages: Adult
- The New Year is finally here and you’re ready for the “new” version of you; however, somebody had a little too much fun ringing in the New Year and locked the list of resolutions in the Breakout EDU box. In order to break out of your bad habits from 2019 and create a new and improved you, you must get that list! You have 45 minutes to solve all the New Year’s clues, unlock all the locks, and finally take all those resolutions seriously. Otherwise, you’ll be back to your old self and never break those bonds of the past!
- On the Trail of the Giant Jack-O-Lantern
- CONTENT AREA: Holiday, Halloween
- GRADE LEVEL(S): K-2
- On Halloween, four friends head out at dusk, in search of the greatest Jack-O-Lantern to ever be grown in Nelsonville! The four friends aren’t sure if they are brave enough to make it through the Corn Maze, Frightful Forest, Black Water Swamp, and the Field of Webs without your help, but together, before dusk turns to dark, we plan to find out, once and for all, if the Giant Jack-O-Lantern truly exists!
- Peter Cottontail
- Content Area: Reading, Seasonal
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary
- Every year, Peter Cottontail brings Easter baskets filled with bright and beautifully colored eggs and sweet yummy candies for each of the children in Green Valley. “Higglety pigglety, happy Easter! Peter would shout as he hopped from house to house. On Easter morning, the mommies would be dressed up in their new Easter bonnets and the children would munch on their Easter candy. Every Easter was the same, until one year, on the day before Easter…..Wily Wolf has decided there would be no more Easter fun.
- Sneaky Snow Snatcher
- Content Area: Science, Social Studies
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary, Middle School
- The month is December, the middle of winter,
- The time of the ice and the snow.
- Your dreams are of sledding, and skiing, and snowmen,
- And mountains of gingerbread dough.
- You look out the window, get hit with the sun,
- And see NOTHING is covered in white.
- Wait, what? No snow? It simply can’t be!
- The warmth starts to steal your delight.
- You sink in your bed, thinking, “What can I do?”
- When you spot a small handwritten note.
- “I’ve locked up the snow, it will never come now!”
- Said the words that a beast wrote
- So You Want to be an Astronaut
- Content Area: Science, Microgravity
- Ideal Group Size: Small Group / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School
- You want to be an astronaut, and have met all the requirements. You filled out the Astronaut Application. You just found out you received a letter from NASA on whether or not you have been selected to go on to the next stage of NASA Astronaut Tests, but your “best friend”, a known prankster, has locked the letter into a box. Your friend says if you’re not able to get the letter out of the box in 40 minutes, you’re not made of the “right stuff” to be an astronaut! Do you have the “right stuff”? Can you break into the box?
- So You Want to be President
- Content Area: Social Studies
- Ideal Group Size: Small Group Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Elementary
- Mr. Pollster, the town voting manager, has ran off with this year's town’s election results! He left a note that read, "Dear Town, I have polled the town and have decided that no one understands the history of voting! This just can’t be! I have decided to run away with the town’s election results for mayor. My location is secured in the locked box and only the smartest will be able to find me!” -Mr. Pollster. This history of elections and the voting process has changed over the years. It is your task to use your knowledge of the election process and it’s history in order to crack the safe to save this year’s election, find Mr. Pollster’s location, and discover the town’s mayor!
- Space Rocks
- Content Area: Science, Aerospace
- Ideal Group Size: Small Groups Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Middle School, High School
- Intro Video: https://youtu.be/L8vKc5j1vwY (background footage is public domain film from NASA, Launch Control Center 2014 at Kennedy Space Center)
- Video Script: As you can see behind me, we here at Aerospace Conservation Efforts are frantically searching for clues to prevent the completion of a deadly machine codenamed, “the Petrifier.” Over the past weeks, concern has been mounting about a once harmless rock collecting professor turned deranged supervillain, calling himself Landslide. Our agents have tipped us off that within the next 35 minutes, Landslide will use his interplanetary beam to add the final rock to his Petrifier and turn all of humanity to stone! This twisted plan was recovered from his lab earlier today, but we here at ACE are running short on time. We need your help to identify Landslide’s final target and its location to enable ACE to block his collection of this very important rock! We’ve set up a website for tips or information from concerned citizens, so just contact us by visiting theACEinSPACE.weebly.com. Or else we’ll all be petrified...wait, we are already scared, but PETRIFIED. Turned to stone, people!! Only 35 minutes, hurry!!!
- The Story of a Christmas Breakout
- Content Area: Holiday: Christmas, Team Building
- Ideal Group Size: 10 people / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: High School/Adult
- Oh, fudge! The beloved and slightly, or seriously, dysfunctional Parker family’s story of leg lamps, bunny suits, and BB guns is in danger! Turner Broadcasting is considering locking the film away in its movie vault for the next decade or two… Can you imagine a Christmas season without 24 hours of A Christmas Story??? Don’t be a nincompoop… Solve all the clues, unlock the box, and save the Christmas classic we all love! There just might be a major award waiting for you!
- T rapped in the Upside Down
- Content Area: Team Building
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Middle School, High School, Adult
- As a member of the Hawkins MS AV club, you are distraught to hear that your friend Will has gone missing. You and the remaining members of the party find yourselves in the principal’s office, where you discover a police file along with a strange locked box that you realize contains the mysterious portal between you and Will. Upon closer examination of the evidence in the file, you realize that Will is trying to communicate with you from the Upsidedown. Can you decipher his messages, and get him back to the portal before it closes for good
- Tricks Not Treats
- CONTENT AREA: HOLIDAY, HALLOWEEN
- GRADE LEVEL(S): K-1
- Wanda Witch and her friends, ghost, spider, and pumpkin are excited about their favorite holiday, Halloween! Most kids love Halloween because of the treats, but these friends love the tricks! It looks like they are playing a trick on our class. They left us treats but tricked us and locked them in these boxes! Can you help solve the puzzles to open the boxes?!
- Ya Vienen Ios Reyes (Three Kings Day)
- Content Area: Spanish, Three Kings Day
- Ideal Group Size: Whole Class / Suggested Time: 45 minutes
- Recommended Ages: Middle School/High School
- Decades ago Three Kings Day was banned in the country of Cuba. Since then it has not been safe to celebrate. For their protection, families locked up their decorations and heirloom pieces. Finally some families are beginning to celebrate again and one little girl only wants her grandfather’s special Nativity Set this holiday season. BUT, it has been locked up for so long, no one can get into it. She will be awake in 40 minutes and this is all she wants from the Three Kings! Can you make her King’s Day dream come true before she wakes up?
To request kits, email or call Marcia.
District Escape Rooms
These escape rooms have a kit of supplies, and a how-to guide to follow. Cheers to the libraries who have developed these and donated them!
Haunted Escape Room (donated by Corry Public Library)
Harry Potter Themed Escape Room (donated by Corry Public Library)*
To request kits, email or call Marcia.
*For copyright reasons, I recommend not using Harry Potter's name exactly. Universal Studios has been known to sue small entities and even individuals over infringement.
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