Continuing the BreakoutsSince the previous blog post, the Breakout EDU team has had three other breakouts at New Palestine Elementary. These include three classrooms in the third grade. The best class to Breakout of our puzzle was Mrs. Rush's class. The boys broke out in world record time of around 10 minutes and the girls were not far behind. Mrs. Canada's class did bold strategies that did not pay off and they were the slowest class to breakout around 18 minutes. We had to set up in many different locations around the school with our box so we are learning to adapt and set up quicker. After we finish the fourth graders we will then begin to change our theme and make our clues more reading based instead of the heavy math we are putting on the students now. The Breakout's have been challenging for two of the classes and easy for the other two. We plan to try to make two different types of games to be a the level of the students so they can enjoy the game even more. Feedback The feedback for our project has been great! All grades were asking for us to do a Box for them according to NPE Principal, Katy Eastes. We also have gotten ideas to improve our project by adding different and unusual problems for the kids so they will enjoy it. Also, to try to incorporate the lessons they are learning into it so it will be beneficial to the students. Finally, two of the teachers have told us that when we were with the kids it was the best they behaved in weeks and we are very proud to be involved with this project. A Series of Unfortunate EventsThe Breakout Box has ran into a little bit of bad luck recently because of the amount of drills going on at the Elementary school. During our short periods we have experienced delays for our next period class do to a tornado drill and a fire drill. The worst one was the fire drill because of the negative windchill beginning to happen because of the Polar Vortex. We were fortunate enough to have coats with us this day. We hope these unfortunate events and drills will stop happening when our group shows up. Pictures:
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Our First BreakoutFor our first breakout we visited Mrs. Purciful's fourth grade classroom at New Palestine Elementary. We chose to do a Spongebob theme Breakout Box that we used a variety of clues for the students to Breakout the Secret Formula that has been taken. For the clues we made using google draw. The clues were mainly in the math and problem solving area. Below are a few photos of clues: First TrialWith the unknown in mind for what our project would be. We set up in a empty classroom and spread the clues away from the main box to avoid utter chaos. We split the classroom into two separate groups of the classroom. First we had them solve a silver lunchbox with a clue about perimeter (can be seen in slideshow above) to get the light up pens that they could use to help solve invisible ink clues. The kids were really excited to find the pens. Then, they separated to solve the remaining clues. This group was a very intelligent group that was good with the math problems, but we didn't know what the level would be so we will take that into consideration later on. The first group solved the box in around 14 minutes and the following group beat them with only a few seconds to spare. Overall, the experience was enjoyable giving the kids a break from their daily school work and to extend their brains even further into education with a fun game. Both groups were excited to find the Secret Formula, but were more thrilled with the suckers. What's Next?We are busy for a couple weeks because of a recent bombardment of requests by the teachers who love the idea and want us to do more with them. Word has got out about our recent success and look forward to continuing it through the next couple of weeks. We want to change the theme and the problems in a week or two to be able to give the kids fresh theme and easier problems where they don't need as much guidance. Photos of the Secret Formula Breakout #1 |
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