Escape Room Zombie Teacher Breakout Game Activity - Team Building Challenge

Bring excitement to your classroom with this fun and creative Zombie Teacher Escape Room! In this engaging team building activity, the teacher has turned into a zombie, and students must work together to decode puzzles, riddles, and challenges to collect the ingredients needed to change them back into a human. This interactive activity fosters classroom community while building critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills. It’s perfect for English class, featuring ELA concepts like spelling and homophones, but can also be used in any subject area. Best of all, your purchase includes a hand-drawn introductory video by the talented John Spencer that sets the scene and hooks students with the zombie backstory before the escape begins. Watch a short preview of the included video on this page.

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How the Escape Room Breakout Game Team Building Activity Works:

The Escape Room Zombie Teacher Team Building Activity begins with students watching a hand-drawn video that introduces the escape room backstory. When they arrive at school, they discover that their teacher has been transformed into a zombie. In the library, they find a book about zombies, but the page with the ingredients needed to save their teacher has been ripped out. To reverse the effects, students must work together to solve puzzles and riddles hidden within the book and throughout the classroom to uncover the missing ingredients.

Students will circulate around six different zombie-themed stations, using a response booklet to record their answers as they go. The included stations are:

• Word Maze: Students navigate a maze to reveal a riddle that leads to the first ingredient.
• Homophone Cipher Wheel: Students correct homophone errors and use a cipher wheel to uncover the next ingredient.
• Jigsaw Puzzle / Riddle: Students assemble a jigsaw puzzle to reveal a riddle and find another ingredient.
• Spelling Search: Students identify and correct spelling errors to uncover a hidden ingredient.
• Pictographs: Students decipher pictograms to reveal hidden words, then organize them in a table to find the next ingredient.
• Encrypted Message: Students locate zombie-inspired code images hidden around the room to decode a final message that will help them save their teacher.

Included in the Escape Room Breakout Game Team Building Activity:

➡️ Teacher Instructions: Use the detailed teacher instructions to help you set up the classroom and facilitate the escape room with ease. The guide walks you through organizing materials, arranging stations, and managing the flow of the activity so everything runs smoothly from start to finish.

➡️ Escape Room Introductory Video and Narrative Backstory: Begin the activity with an engaging, hand-drawn video by John Spencer that immediately hooks students’ attention and introduces the backstory. Also included is a written version of the story so you can read it aloud to set the stage for the escape room.

➡️ Student Instructions Story and Station Signs: Set up each of the six stations with clear, easy-to-read signs that indicate the task number and type, along with detailed student instructions for how to complete each challenge successfully.

➡️ Escape Room Station Activities: This resource includes all the materials students need to complete the six engaging station activities, including mazes, rebus puzzle cards, homophone strips, spelling search cards, jigsaw puzzles, student instruction cards, envelopes, station markers, and more.

➡️ Student Answer Booklet: Have groups record their answers for each puzzle in the included student answer booklet. When they complete all sections, they’ll uncover the hidden ingredients and final message needed to reverse the zombie effects on their teacher.

➡️ Teacher Answer Key: Use the included teacher answer keys to check students’ work and identify the winning team. The keys can also be used after the escape room to review each station’s puzzles and solutions together as a class.

What Teachers Are Saying About The Zombie Teacher Escape Room Team Building Activity:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students loved this resource. They were engaged the entire class. They worked in teams against another classroom to complete all of the challenges and were genuinely disappointed when class was over and they had to wait until the next time to finish the escape room.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Engaging and truly had students thinking together. Not simple puzzles, but actual fun and ELA skills. Great break day for students without it being a "break."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students were so engaged! I love Presto Plans! I used it the last week of school and they were so focused and engaged — they didn't want to stop working on it!

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