Heron's Crossing Mobile Escape Residency
It is always exciting when we get to build multiple escape rooms at a school, and Heron’s Crossing was no different! As the students were learning about the Moon and Mars, Eric and Mike spent four exciting days constructing rooms with productive and motivated grade 6 students that were set on the Moon and Mars!
MARS
Welcome to Mars! As you enter the room, an ominous soundtrack sets the scene for a disaster at the ARES 66 Mars base. As the first ever settlers on Mars, you must sift through the wreckage of your base that has been destroyed by a windstorm, but you have to hurry, because another windstorm is incoming! Settlers on Mars require food, water, and oxygen to survive, and the Heron’s Crossing Grade 6 students created puzzles themed after these critical elements. A clever jigsaw puzzle in the shape of a water droplet unlocked the life-saving water bottles for the astronauts and a hidden key unlocked the tanks of oxygen. A number puzzle based on the planets in the solar system would allow the astronauts to unlock the last box to get the keys to their escape vehicle, but not before the nuclear battery was found in a pile of nearby rubble to activate the solution to the very last lock. Finally, they keys found could be used to start the ignition of the rover and let the astronauts flee to safety!
MOON
Uh oh. This is bad. You’ve landed on the moon and your ship won’t start! And to make matters worse, there is an asteroid coming!
So what is an astro-solver to do?
Well, first things first, you gotta work backwards. Clearly, the control panel requires four space keys. Now all we gotta do is locate them!
A natural place to check would be the rover, which, of course, is locked. There are several other locked compartments, doors, etc.
By solving the various diagrams, puzzles, etc. the team of astronauts can locate the 4 keys and blast off to safety!
The artistic precision of the students at Heron’s Crossing was incredible. Everything from the broken door of the Martian base and scenes looking out of a spaceship window from the surface of the moon reflected a level of care that demonstrated their engagement and investment in the project. Students collaborated with teachers, parent volunteers, and Mobile Escape facilitators to create a truly impressive, challenging, and mind-blowing escape room.