GALAXY SPY AGENCY PART 1: CRACK THE CODE
(18 pages incl. answer key, ages 9-11)
Someone has stolen a top-secret document from the Galaxy Spy Agency, putting all the Secret Agents in danger. You, Agent Moon, are the only Secret Agent who can crack the code to get the document back! But you only have one hour to save your colleagues from certain danger. Can you do it?
Learning points include:
• perimeter and area
• figurative language
• homophones (their/they're/there and two/too/to)
• angles
• the solar system
• basic math and logic
• a bit of beginner French
• and lots of fun codes to break!
GALAXY SPY AGENCY PART 2: FIND THE ACCOMPLICE
(18 pages incl. answer key, ages 9-11)
The Galaxy Spy Agency and Agent Moon are back! This time you’re investigating three suspects, one of whom was an accomplice to a crime. You must prove which suspect is guilty, but you only have one hour to do it! Can you identify the accomplice?
Learning points include:
• fractions and decimals
• tricky word spellings
• grammar terms
• parts of speech
• the 24-hour clock
• basic maths operations
• a tiny bit of beginner French
• and many more fun puzzles and codes to break.
GALAXY SPY AGENCY PART 3: THE SECRET FORMULA
(18 pages incl. answer key, ages 9-11)
The criminal Moonlight Squad have created a chemical formula that can open any lock or safe, and they’re planning to sell it to other criminal gangs. Your mission is to retrieve the formula, but you only have one hour before the other gangs arrive for a secret midnight meeting. Can you do it in time?
Learning points include:
• statements, questions, exclamations, and commands
• apostrophes of possession and contraction
• times tables
• addition and subtraction calculations
• reading and calculating volume in millilitres/fl oz (both measuring systems are available)
• phases of the moon
• visual and spatial puzzles
• and more fun codes to break.
GALAXY SPY AGENCY PART 4: AROUND THE WORLD
(18 pages incl. answer key, ages 9-11)
The criminal Moonlight Squad have escaped and are on a private jet to a secret location somewhere in the world. Agent Moon must track them down with the help of secret agent allies in countries all over the globe.
Learning points include:
• capital cities of the world (no knowledge required, but kids will learn 20+ capital cities!)
• calculating fixed and variable costs
• division problems
• use of capital letters
• use of tricky words (who’s/whose, it’s/its, his/he’s, and more)
• reading and understanding information from a table
• cubic structures
• logic and reasoning
• and fun visual puzzles and codes to break.
THE CASE OF THE STOLEN SAPPHIRE
(18 pages incl. answer key, ages 9-11)
The Case of the Stolen Sapphire is set in Victorian London. You are the famous Detective Scarlet, and your mission is to find the stolen sapphire before the hour is up!
Learning points include:
• coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
• adjectives and adverbs ending in -ly
• addition with 4- and 5-digit numbers
• division with 2- and 3-digit numbers
• reading graphs
• calculating times in hours and minutes
• and fun word puzzles and codes to break!
DESERT ISLAND ADVENTURE WITH THE TREASURE SEEKERS
(18 pages incl. answer key, ages 9-11)
A map with a missing piece… secret messages from a mysterious source… and a rival team of treasure hunters at your heels! Hurry - you only have one hour to find the buried treasure on the desert island and make it back to your ship!
Learning points include:
• basic math operations
• lines, angles, and lines of symmetry
• world flags
• inverted commas
• 3D shapes
• factors
• types of nouns
• and fun word puzzles and codes to break!
THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING BIRTHDAY CAKE
(13 pages incl. answer key, ages 6-8)
It’s Posy the cat’s birthday, and she and the rest of the Kitty Cat Gang are about to have a party. But they’ve misplaced the birthday cake! Can you help them find the cake before the party begins?
Learning points include:
• addition and subtraction
• multiplication and division (2, 3, 4, 5, and 10 times tables)
• 2D shapes
• phonics
• word problems
• logic problems
• and fun codes to break!
THE MARTIAN GAMES
(13 pages incl. answer key, ages 6-8)
Team Awesome is one of three teams left in the finals of the Martian Games! They’ll need all their speed, strength, and skill to beat Team Fab and Team Unstoppable. Can you help them win the Martian Games Trophy?
Learning points include:
• addition and subtraction
• ordering numbers
• multiplication (2, 3, and 5 times tables)
• fractions
• grammar and word problems
• logic problems
• and fun codes to break!
THE SWEETLAND WOODS PIE COMPETITION
(14 pages incl. answer key, ages 6-8)
Four woodland friends want to make a delicious apple pie to enter into the World-Famous Sweetland Woods Annual Pie Competition. They need to find a recipe, pick some apples, measure their ingredients, and bake their pie. Can you help them do it in time?
Learning points include:
• addition problems
• doubling numbers
• reading measurements on a scale
• looking up information in an index
• looking up information in a table
• telling time on an analog clock
• phonics - words with the /o/ sound
• understanding how to use questions (who, what, when, where, why, how)
• putting instructions in the correct order
• and fun codes to break!
Hi, I'm Nadia!
Escape Rooms for Kids was born in March 2020, just before lockdown hit the UK. I was a Teaching Assistant in a Year 6 classroom (that's the same as Grade 6 in the US and Canada), and we were preparing for a series of standardized Year 6 tests that happen every May (but of course, didn't happen that year due to Covid-19).
I had just created a fun homework exercise for the kids in my class to practice for the test questions. I was so pleased that I had made that homework assignment, because when school shut down that week, I was able to offer it in a few Facebook groups of distressed parents who didn't know how long their kids would be out of school.
They loved it, their kids loved it, and I had many requests for more. That's how Escape Rooms for Kids was born!
