Finding Missing Angles 4th Grade Escape Room Activity Additive Angle Measures

Recognizing angle measures as additive, identifying angle types and parts, and finding the measures of unknown angles will be the key to escape in this 4th grade geometry digital escape room activity. Practice and review math skills in an engaging way that encourages active learning and collaboration. Can your fourth graders use their knowledge of geometry and measurement to escape the locker room in time for the championship game? In this online breakout, students race to find the right locker by finding a missing angle measurement. The combination to a safe will be found by identifying obtuse angles, parallel lines, rays, and more. Take a break from worksheets and let your 4th grade students enjoy this exciting, rigorous, standards-based online activity.

Escape rooms are great for reviewing material before tests, providing enrichment, assessing students and encouraging collaboration. Best of all, this online breakout has virtually no prep for teachers! It is very easy to implement with no clues to hide and the automate, self-checking online form frees up the teacher to observe students' problem solving methods. This is a rigorous activity that makes students think outside the box to find solutions.

What do students need to know in order to complete the puzzles?

• Students need to be able to find the measurement of a missing angle by recognizing angle measurements as additive (not by using a protractor)
• Create equations to solve for unknown angles
• Recognize right angles and know that they measure 90°
• Recognize a straight angle and know that it measures 180°
• Identify parallel lines, perpendicular lines, rays, obtuse angles and acute angles

What is included in the PDF?

• Quickstart guide
• Link and QR code to get to the online breakout
• Option to create a copy of the Google Form™ to save to your own drive (ideal for distance learning).
• Detailed Answer Key
• Optional success signs to print
• Optional student recording page including QR code leading to the form.

FAQ

• Do students need to have Gmail™ accounts? NO! Anyone with internet access and a tablet, computer, or even phone can complete the breakout.
• How long will this take? That is the hardest question as the answer varies depending on each classroom, student, or group. Some students with a firm grasp on the concepts covered in this escape room will be able to complete the challenge very quickly (15 minutes), others will take longer. The majority of students will take between 25-45 minutes. Requiring students to use the recording form will increase the amount of time required to complete the puzzles. The form will not save student data, so if you are worried about your students not finishing on time, simply have them write their answers on scratch paper. They can then come back and quickly re-enter their answers and pick up where they left off.
• Will students have to search the web to figure out the puzzles? NO! All of the information needed will be provided in the Google Form™. The math in this activity is all standards-based.
• Can this be used for distance learning? Yes! The PDF includes directions and tips to help you successfully implement this activity remotely or in a virtual academy setting.

Online breakouts aren't only for classroom teachers. Math tutors can use these fun activities to engage reluctant learners or challenge high flyers. Homeschooling families can take a break from worksheets and spice up their lessons.

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