Can You Escape East Berlin?

Escape rooms involve critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration; all excellent skills to build in an academic experience.  8th grade Humanities is learning about the Cold War.  Throughout the hallway and the classroom, small groups of girls were intensely focused on escaping from the communist, East side of the Berlin Wall to the West side of Germany during this escape-room-style learning activity.  In this picture, the group is using Google Translate to understand German documents to help them on their journey. It was amazing to see these girls engaged in such a creative and valuable way while learning!