Game Night!
Creating the breakouts was fun for me! I love these types of puzzles, so it was fun to think about what I could put together. Gamifying lessons is not something I am a stranger to; I worked as an English teacher for teens in Spain and I found for many of my students, the only way I could get them to engage in the material was to gamify things (I made lots of Kahoots and Jeopardy boards). Getting all these resources for creating breakouts almost made me angry because I really wish I knew these existed when I was teaching. It would've made my life so much easier. I ended up choosing The Hunger Games as my topic since that is a book/movie I really love and because I had been thinking a lot about my teaching experience, where I did actually teach a unit on The Hunger Games . My biggest problem with creating the breakouts was that I decided I wanted the puzzles to feed into each other. Since it was brought up that there should be a purpose for each puzzle, I thought, ...
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