Breakout EDU
Breakout EDU is a great way to engage your students and get them excited about the content you are teaching. It is an awesome way to introduce units or even lessons. It is also good to use after completing a lesson or unit to see how well the students grasped the information. While Breakout EDU does take awhile to plan and put together, it is well worth the work, and your students will love it. Before starting work on creating your Breakout, it is a good idea to try some yourself online and watch some videos about them, simply to get a good background on what it is and how to create one of your own. After getting some more information on Breakout EDU, you need to plan how you are going to create your own. Choose a topic you would like to base it off of, write your story line, and create your locks. You may also want to create hint cards that the students can hold up if they need help. If you are going to do your Breakout in your classroom, you will also need to buy materials. However, if you are doing the majority of your Breakout online, then you can go straight into creating it! Google Forms is a great tool to use for your locks and clues. You can also link clues to other websites with activities.
Our Breakout EDU is about animals and it is being used in a kindergarten class as well as a lower level Spanish class. Even though the Spanish class is a high school class, we were able to use this Breakout because they are in a low level course and are also learning animals, colors, etc. This Breakout is intended for the whole class to complete together. This way they can all collaborate and if the kindergartners cannot read a word, or the Spanish class gets stuck on vocabulary, then they are able to work together to figure it out. This Breakout could take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour depending on the group. The Breakout covers Standard - 3.1.K.A1 Identify the similarities and differences of living and non-living things.
This activity falls under Component 3C because it really keeps students interested in the content and engages them in what they are learning by using episodic experiences. Even if the students do not enjoy learning about the specific topic as much as they would enjoy learning about something else, they will have a lot more fun doing this interactive activity than they would have had listening to a lecture, and they will probably get more out of it.
Our Breakout EDU is about animals and it is being used in a kindergarten class as well as a lower level Spanish class. Even though the Spanish class is a high school class, we were able to use this Breakout because they are in a low level course and are also learning animals, colors, etc. This Breakout is intended for the whole class to complete together. This way they can all collaborate and if the kindergartners cannot read a word, or the Spanish class gets stuck on vocabulary, then they are able to work together to figure it out. This Breakout could take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour depending on the group. The Breakout covers Standard - 3.1.K.A1 Identify the similarities and differences of living and non-living things.
This activity falls under Component 3C because it really keeps students interested in the content and engages them in what they are learning by using episodic experiences. Even if the students do not enjoy learning about the specific topic as much as they would enjoy learning about something else, they will have a lot more fun doing this interactive activity than they would have had listening to a lecture, and they will probably get more out of it.
Danielson, C. (2007). Enhancing professional practice a framework for teaching (2nd ed.). Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.