Overview
Teachers are often looking for ways to increase student engagement without adding significant prep time or relying on complex tools. Digital escape rooms are a popular option, but many available versions rely on pre-made templates or surface-level questions that do not fully engage students in meaningful thinking.
This session focuses on building structured, content-driven escape room experiences using tools teachers already have access to: Google Sites and Google Forms.
Participants will learn how to design a simple, multi-page Google Site that houses key information, scenarios, or content for students to explore. They will then build a corresponding Google Form that uses answer validation and multi-step verification to create puzzle-based questions that require students to read, analyze, and apply information from the site.
Artificial intelligence tools such as Gemini or ChatGPT will be used to accelerate the creation of scenarios, questions, and answer sets, allowing teachers to build complete escape room experiences efficiently.
By the end of the session, participants will have the foundation of a fully functional escape room that can be used in their classroom and adapted for future lessons.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn how to structure a Google Site to organize content for an escape room experience
- Understand how to build self-checking, puzzle-based questions using Google Forms
- Explore strategies for designing multi-step verification questions that prevent guessing and require deeper exploration
- Use AI tools to quickly generate scenarios, clues, and question set
- Leave with a working escape room framework that can be reused across topics
Presenter
Tori Hale is a dedicated educator with a passion for empowering teachers and students. As a Business and Technology Teacher at Casey-Westfield High School and an adjunct instructor at Eastern Illinois University, Tori has spent 13 years shaping the future of education.
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