Chemical Escape Room

Leading team:

• Dr. Malka Yayon
• Dr. Shelley Rap
• Prof. Ron Blonder

Project team:

• Vered Adler
• Hagit Levy
• Inbar Haimovich

Secretariat and Administration:

Shani Motsa

Brief

A chemical escape room is a chemistry-inspired escape room that has been adapted for the education system. Five escape rooms have been developed by the chemistry group, and are currently operating in many schools all over Israel. Some of these escape rooms are premade to be operated by teachers in their school own lab, and are designed around specific topics in chemistry (e.g., acids and bases or basic chemistry); others are DIY escape rooms that teachers can build themselves (the periodic table, energy, and sustainability sources); and one is a virtual room (“The Masked Scientist”). The puzzles in all the rooms are based on the subjects that are included in the curriculum, and aim also introducing additional content for further enrichment of students. The rooms consist of experiments and “dry” puzzles. Managing the escape rooms and solving the puzzles, require perseverance, cooperation, and out-of-the-box thinking. The escape room team also studies and analyses the development of current skills’ levels of individual students and classes who participate in the chemistry escape room activities.

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