Google Escape Room
If you use Google Suite in your classroom, this Google escape room activity is for you! This is a lesson I love using at the beginning of the year as a fun way for students to learn skills with Gmail, Drive, Docs, Drawings, Slides, Sheets, and Forms. But it’s a great refresher really for anytime!
Lesson Description
Summary: This lesson helps students build basic skills in Gmail, Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Drawings, and Forms. Codes are hidden throughout each of these Google Tools, which students find & submit in a Google Form. Each code unlocks a new section of the Form until they have successfully “escaped” from Google Suites!
Learning Objective: Students will practice organizational technology skills that will enrich learning in our classroom.
Time Required: ~45 minutes
Materials Needed:
- Teacher Instructions – everything you need for this activity is linked in this Google Doc, plus all the details on how to set it up. The activity is guided by a set of Slides with tasks clearly outlined and links provided to all the different google tools. Check out the video below to preview the lesson materials!
Building Google Skills for the Classrom
What Google Skills will students need in your classroom?
Before creating this google escape room, I carefully reflected on what technology skills my students would need for my 7th grade science classroom. Here is the list of skills I came up with, and also the list of skills that your students will practice as they complete my escape room…
- GMAIL: Send & respond to emails politely.
- DRIVE: organize files, create new folder, name folder, add folders within folders, color code folders, share folders with teacher, organize new docs/slides etc within DRIVE folders, search in Drive using advanced search.
- DOCS: Create new/make a copy of DOC, name the Doc, type in the Doc, use highlighter tool, change text color/font, add Images, add Google Drawings, insert links, change editing/viewing access.
- SLIDES: Create new/make a copy of Slides, name Slides, choose layout/theme, insert text box, insert image, add new slides, insert a link.
- SHEETS: Make a copy of Sheets, add text in cells, add image in cell, sort A to Z, add new/change between tabs, rename tabs, change row/column size, insert row/column.
- DRAWINGS: Add image from web, add shapes/lines, edit drawings, insert drawings
- FORMS: Input answers, save, submit
- ALL: How to share, change edit/viewing access so it’s not on “restricted”
Editable Google Escape Room
Now, I realize that you and your students’ needs will likely be somewhat different from mine. And that is why every part of this escape room is completely EDITABLE. I wanted to give you a detailed template to start with because well… if you’ve ever tried to make your own escape room, you know that it can get pretty complicated.
All the links in the teacher instruction page will force copy so that you can freely edit as needed for your own classroom!
Google Escape Room Feedback
This is a brand-new lesson, and since I am no longer teaching full time in a classroom, I need your feedback!
I am currently offering this lesson for free for the first 50 downloads!
While I love sharing nearly all of my lessons free, this one took many hours to create… And so after those first 50 downloads this lesson will be for sale on my Teachers Pay Teachers store for a small fee.
Be sure to snag it now for free! And shoot me a quick email ([email protected]) after you’ve tried it to let me know how it went!
More Free Lessons
Love this Escape room?
Check out more highly engaging lessons on my blog! One of my favorites is this Alien Invasion: Writing Skills Activity, where students learn the importance of carefully following instructions. And who doesn’t want more of that in their classroom??
Also for more hands-on science activities, check out my science lesson library here.
