Photosynthesis Escape Room

Description

Looking for an engaging photosynthesis activity? This escape room style review is a great way to get ready for an upcoming test.

Editable task cards  and alternative answer sheets are included to allow substitutions of any of the activities.

Scenario:

You and your team have just arrived at a kids’ conference on gardening and food supply chains. You are part of a team of scientists creating a walk-through simulation of the chloroplast in action. Unfortunately, you’ve lost the password to access your plans on the cloud. In order to make sure that other people didn’t hack into it your team had an elaborate set of clues created and you must figure out the encrypted message in order to reset the passwords and get your plans.

This is a 4 part escape room that can be adapted for your students into anything from seat work to a full blown escape room experience. Depending on your time and your classes.

4 tasks:

1. Students are asked to sort clues into one of two categories: dark or light reactions.
2. Students are given a list of social media posts from a cell experiencing photosynthesis. They are asked to put them order by the post.
3. Students are asked to use their text to answer questions about photosynthesis.
4. Students use the answers in the previous tasks to break the code and solve the encrypted message.