Rack Your Brain

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Scenario: “You and your friends are lost. What started out as a short hike in the forest has turned into a nightmare. Darkness has descended and a snowstorm is stirring. The temperature has dwindled to dangerous degrees. No one was prepared for such conditions as these. Luckily, you found shelter in an old cabin where you stay the night. However, the days pass and the storm rages on. With no snow equipment or warm clo

This worksheet helps students recognize the importance of the bison for the Plains Native Americans. Every part of the bison was used for some purpose. Suggested answers are included. Students can either work on this by searching online or this could be done together as a whole class with student input. Students can color the bison when finished filling in all the sections.

These are small prayer guides for Eucharistic Adoration. The purpose of these is to guide students' prayers during the silence. Print on cardstock and laminate to use again and again.

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Scenario: "You and a team of archeologists have just discovered a long lost ancient tomb! As you begin exploring the treasures and artifacts, you find some modern items that don’t belong. You quickly realize that you aren’t the first to discover the tomb after all. It was discovered 100 years ago by a man named R. Morley, but he never made it out alive! As you are rummaging through the remnants of his bag, the tomb do

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms! There are 2 versions of this game: one using a UV flashlight and invisible ink & one without these items. Scenario: “You and your team are members of the Culper Spy Ring during the height of the Revolutionary War. Some of you are responsible for mingling within enemy territory to gather top-secret intelligence. Others of you are couriers who transport this information to a specific person at a predetermined location

Engage your students with this strategic card game using critical thinking skills! This is a simple game to learn and lots of fun to play! It is highly educational. Students will learn about actual food chains/food webs in 5 different biomes! -Marine (Pacific Ocean) -Desert (Mojave Desert) -Rainforest (Amazon Rainforest) -Grassland (Serengeti Plains) -Tundra (Northern Arctic) Contents: -Rules -80 cards (16 in each biome) All you need to do is print the cards, cut them out, and play! You can lami

Transform your classroom or bulletin board with Colonial broadside posters! This resource contains 16 printable posters (to be printed on 8 x 11.5 inch paper). A broadside is a large piece of paper printed on one side only. During Colonial America, people would hang broadsides up in the town square for all to see. Typically, these posters would include advertisements, job opportunities, new inventions, information about meetings, newspaper articles, commentary in the form of ballads, political

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms! Students will be working together to solve a mystery! Scenario: “You and a group of friends have been invited to attend a masquerade party to celebrate Mardi Gras. Upon arrival, you see people wearing colored masks to participate in the festivities. Barely recognizable, you try to find some others you may know. Throughout the evening, you socialize, play some games, make new friends, and eat a delicious dinner. However

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Scenario:“Pirates have sailed into your school and have taken your teacher hostage! You and your classmates try to run after the pirates, but they locked the door behind them! You are trapped inside! You notice a small leather bag on the floor that must have fallen off the waist of one of the pirates during all the commotion. Search through the bag, solve the puzzles, and escape the classroom before your teacher walks

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Scenario: “In 1587, colonist John White landed in Roanoke and was named governor of the settlement. Shortly after, he left the New World and traveled back to England to retrieve more supplies. However, due to the Anglo-Spanish War, Governor White and his crew were delayed in returning to Roanoke until 1590. You are a passenger aboard Hopewell, one of the two ships returning with supplies. Upon arrival, you find the se

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Scenario: “On the night of April 14, 1912, as the SS Californian was approaching a large ice field, Captain Stanley Lord decided to stop the ship and wait out the night. Wireless operator, Cyril Evans, tapped a message warning other nearby ships about the dangerous icebergs. This message was received by the RMS Titanic wireless operator Jack Phillips, but he was busy clearing a backlog of messages. Ten minutes later,

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Scenario: “You and a team of archeologists are sent on a secret mission to locate a long lost artifact inside the Temple of Kukulkan. While you are searching, the door slams shut behind you! You are trapped inside! You have 60 minutes to discover the secrets of the temple, locate the artifact, and escape before you and your team become a sacrifice to the gods.” Instructions: Each of my digital breakouts includes a lin

In this bundle, you will receive 4 digital breakouts! Ancient Rome: Escape the Colosseum Ancient Egypt: Escape the Tomb Ancient Greece: City-State Escape Ancient Mesoamerica: Escape the Mayan Temple Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Instructions: Each of my digital breakouts includes a link to the Google form, a reference sheet, instructions, and an answer sheet for the teacher. PLEASE NOTE: The Google form is editable. The reference sheet is not. Eac

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Scenario: “You are a citizen in the ancient Greek city-state of Athens. Each year an ostracism ceremony occurs in which every Athenian votes to banish one citizen for 10 years. You have been falsely accused of treason and now the Athenians want you ostracized. Time is short! You have only 60 minutes until the voting begins! Complete the tasks and solve the puzzles in order to clear your name, escape your fate, and dis

In this bundle, you will receive 4 digital breakouts! Pueblo Indians: Escape the Cliff Dwellings Roanoke: Escape the Lost Colony American Revolution: Culper Spy Ring Lewis and Clark: Escape the West Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Instructions: Each of my digital breakouts includes a link to the Google form, a reference sheet, instructions, and an answer sheet for the teacher. PLEASE NOTE: The Google form is editable. The reference sheet is not. Eac

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Scenario: "It is officially Spring Break! You and your friends are walking home from school when a gust of wind whistles by. It lifts all the flowers from a Magnolia tree, blowing them into the air leaving the rest of the tree bare. A beautiful display of pink flowers float all around expected to fall and blanket the soft ground. However, the flowers don’t descend, but seem to flutter in another direction. Intrigued b

This is a Star Wars themed scavenger hunt that you can do online with your students during a live Zoom or Google Meets session. All you need is a free Google account (which gives you access to Google Slides). During your live meeting, simply share your screen with your class and you're ready to go! There are 15 items that students will need to find. Each item has a riddle that goes with it, such as: "Repairing the Millennium Falcon is a difficult job to do. What do you have to fix a piece of pap

These are Virtue in Action cards to reward students showing positive actions. These could be entered into a raffle or just given to each student to keep and collect. There are 2 types of cards included. The first type is specifically Catholic with an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The second variation is appropriate for Christian schools with an image of a dove. Included with this resource is a teacher's guide to help teachers look for specific actions that correspond with the virtues. V

Engage your students with this strategic card game using critical thinking skills! This is a simple game to learn and lots of fun to play! It is highly educational. Students will learn about actual food chains/food webs in the Pacific Ocean. Contents: -Rules -16 cards (3 primary producers, 3 primary consumers, 3 secondary consumers, 3 tertiary consumers, 3 quaternary consumers, 1 decomposer) All you need to do is print the cards, cut them out, and play! You can laminate if you prefer more dur

This is a fun game to see how much your students know about these two new saints: Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis. There are 49 prompts. (100 slides altogether) You can use this resource however you want, but in my classroom I put students into groups of 4. Each group comes up with the team name. Going around to each group in order, read one prompt to a group. They can discuss for 20 seconds. If they get it correct, they get a point. They have the possibility of getting a 2nd point if the