Create a Chemistry Escape Room
Make revision or content review exciting and collaborative.
Teaching context:
Perfect as an end-of-unit activity or energising lesson before assessments in middle secondary science.
Basic AI Prompt:
Design a chemistry escape room for high school students.
Enhanced AI Prompt:
Create a 5-clue chemistry escape room challenge based on acids and bases. Include puzzles, riddles, simple experiments and a final code. Suitable for Year 9.
Spice it up:
Ask AI to theme the escape room — e.g. locked in a lab, saving a scientist, or defusing a chemical bomb.
Lesson implementation:
Set up the classroom with stations or puzzles based on AI-generated clues. Group students in teams and give them a time limit to “escape”. Use real-life materials where safe (pH indicators, vinegar, bicarb soda), and create alternative clues with paper and code.
Scaffold with a clue tracker for students who need help organising information. This task reinforces content in a low-pressure, high-engagement way. Ideal for revision weeks or Science Week celebrations. You can rotate the game through different classrooms, or invite another class in to play as a celebration of learning.
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