Stuck in Congress: A Legislative Branch Digital Escape Room and Genially

 

After all these years, my favorite thing to teach has always been U.S. Government! I adore working my way through the three branches of government and am constantly looking for new ways to engage middle schoolers with content that doesn't make an automatic connection with their lives.

I recently found the Genially website and knew that I could use this to create a super engaging activity! Genially is a website that allows users to create super interactive presentations, quizzes, games, and escape rooms. 

It is free to use in your classroom and includes all the tools I could want! I can record audio right in the website, insert icons, link to other website, make game boards, and more!

I used the tool to make this engaging digital escape room where students got locked into the Capitol Building overnight (I know... we should really talk to the proper authorities!) and they need to learn about Congress and solve puzzles to escape!

I also love Genially because the tools offer me many avenues to differentiate and accommodate for my emerging learners:

• I have added audio reading to pages that contain text.
• Genially works with accessibility extensions like Read and Write for Google and Read Aloud. The hover speech function of Read and write works wonderfully on this game.
• Genially works wonderfully with the Google Translate extensions. It will translate each page separately.
• In order to move through the escape room, students need to answer questions correctly. They are redirected when they are incorrect. This supports executive learning.

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