
Create Your Own Digital Breakouts
Using Google Apps for Education
Session Objectives
- To understand what digital breakouts are and how they can be used in the classroom by experiencing the fun for yourself.
- To discover digital breakouts created by others.
- To learn how to use Google Forms and Google Sites in order to create our own Digital Breakouts.
What are Breakouts and why should they be used in the classroom?
This educational craze is about bringing the Escape Room fun into the classroom. Students usually work together to follow clues in order to open a series of locks.
Breakouts encourage:
- Fun in the Classroom
- Collaboration
- Critical Thinking
- Inquiry-based Experience
- Builds inference skills
- Enhances communication
Examples of Digital Breakouts
- Coding Digital Breakout (Using the old sites)
- Scratch Digital Breakout
- PETE&C Digital Breakout
- Breakout Edu's Digital Sandbox (May need to use password: showyourwork)
Using Google Forms as your Breakout Locks
Using the New Google Sites to build your Breakout
Links that will be helpful for building your Digital Breakout
Stephanie Coleman
Computer Science Teacher
Technology Integrator
Google Trainer
Email: colemans@sesdrams.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/sesdrams.org/mrscoleman/home?authuser=0
Location: South Eastern Middle School-East, Main Street, Fawn Grove, PA, United States
Phone: 717-382-4851 ( 2137)
Twitter: @StephColeman4