Escape the Bubonic Plague: A Tale From the Middle Ages
You are surround by great sickness and you're running out of hope. Can you find the cure to survive?
Nicole Naughton
Average rating:
4.8
Number of reviews:(126)
What's included
1 live meeting
45 mins in-class hoursClass Experience
In this immersive, interactive Digital Escape Room Challenge, learners will be wandering through England in the year 1348. It may be fascinating to finally meet a real knight in shining armor. However, England is not the best place to visit right now due to the Bubonic Plague! Learners will have to decode messages, solve puzzles, encounter obstacles, and utilize their memorization skills to escape before they catch the disease. Beware of the plague doctor, he only comes when you run out of time! The Digital Escape Room will utilize an application called nearpod. Learners will have access with a digital link to make the experience more immersive, yet still paced and overseen by the instructor. After unlocking 5 locks, a secret message will be revealed to grant you the ability to find a cure and time travel out of the Middle Ages. No prior knowledge of the Middle Ages or Bubonic Plague is needed to successfully escape. Learners will need to be able to navigate through the nearpod software, but the instructor will be able to support and guide the learner through a shared screen.
Learning Goals
Learners will
>Decode hidden messages through word scramble
>Utilize memorization skills while making observations
>Locate a secret word in a short text
>Illustrate using a drawing tool
Other Details
Parental Guidance
This digital escape room is inspired by true events that took place in England in 1348 when the Bubonic Plague took the lives of many people. The following topics will be discussed lightly throughout the escape challenge: The cause of the disease, the symptoms, the effects of the disease (more than 1 million died), and the reason behind the plague doctor's attire. Learners will be guided from lock to lock. In the end, they will successfully escape the Bubonic Plague.
Supply List
Please provide paper and pencil if your child wishes to take notes while solving each task of the escape challenge.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
- Nearpod
Joined June, 2020
4.8
126reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
Hi! I have been teaching for 15 years. I started out as a museum educator at a whaling museum. There, I taught ages preschool to senior citizens on a wide variety of topics. My students and I have explored the history of whaling, nautical navigation, ocean sciences, dinosaur fossils, erupting volcanoes, and even made slime! We would discover new vocabulary and extraordinary facts through the use of real artifacts, experiments, games, and a craft.
While teaching at the museum, I also received a Bachelor's Degree in Child Study enabling to teach general education and special education from birth to grade 6. In the classroom setting, I have taught preschool and grades 2-5. With my passion for science from being a museum educator, I was also a science teacher for one year for grades 2,3, and 4. When I became an Emergency Medical Technician for my local fire department, I received a Master's Degree in Health Education for Kindergarten to 12th grade. Fire rescue and emergency medical services is a fascinating world that I hope to teach you all about here at Outschool! We will investigate the human body and navigate through the different bodily systems, organs, and much more!
Lastly, I am excited to share with you how to enjoy working with numbers and become a mathematician! I am currently a 5th grade Math and Science teacher. We will dive into place value, operational expressions, fractions, decimals, geometry, measurement, and all the math rules you’ll need to know to be as successful as you can be!
Learning should be fun, engaging, interactive, and student centered. Building upon students' interests, needs, and curiosities fosters a love for learning. I hope to inspire and be inspired by others of the unlimited treasures waiting to be explored and shared. It all starts with you exploring those curiosities!
I live in the United States. Originally from New York, but I now live in Florida. I have two dogs, a Great Dane and Golden Retriever. I’m not too far away from Walt Disney World and I completely obsessed with anything Disney.Reviews
Live One-Time Class
$15
per classMeets once
45 min
Completed by 13 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 9-12
3-9 learners per class
