Breakout EDU for Sixth Grade Library Orientation

With the advent of Breakout Rooms, Escape Rooms and the like, education has followed suit and is creating Breakout EDU challenges for students. I am a middle school librarian that prides myself on challenging and questioning students to think, so I thought Breakout challenges would be the perfect way to start my Sixth grades out in Middle School!

The past 10 years at Southwest Middle 6th grade orientation has evolved from the lecture, slideshow, scavenger hunt, Amazing Race, etc. I’m never happy with orientation…. I know students just want to choose a books, checkout the different Makerspace activities I have and get on with it. This year I have created a Breakout Orientation Challenge. Our Industrial Technology teacher built for the school six breakout boxes, so our groups can be small and all students can help in solving the puzzles. The puzzles to the six locks have the students use, the library website, the library guide, the library catalog ( fiction and nonfiction), and a map of the library. I am very excited to see how it goes and will submit the Breakout to Breakout EDU after I have “run” it by the students. Wish me luck!

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