Learn about how digital breakouts can create a collaborative, critical thinking environment in your classroom!

1. PCMS Professional Learning: January 3, 2018
Presented by Becky Nipper
Engage Your Students with

2. What is a Digital
Breakout?
• Similar to the "escape room" concept
• Students are tasked with unlocking
clues and passwords to advance to
the next task
• Students have to apply the learning
and content in your class to
determine clues
• You can create digital breakouts that
are specifically tailored to your
content and standards
• It is an engaging way to encourage
collaboration, creativity and critical
thinking skills in your students

4. Using OneNote to Create
Your Own Breakout
• OneNote is basically a digital notebook
divided into sections and pages
• Sections you create can be password
protected
• OneNote can be shared with students
without requiring them to log in to
Office 365
• Let's see how it works!

5. Digital
Breakout
Examples
• Go to the link here to participate in your own
Digital Breakout:
https://tinyurl.com/yboco3r2
• Other examples:
• Constructive and Destructive Forces
• Tides Digital Breakout

6. How to Create a Digital Breakout in OneNote
• PDF Instructions Here
• Important Tip: As you create your passwords for the sections,
be sure to WRITE THEM DOWN as you go.
• Resources/Puzzles to help you build your breakout:
• YouTube videos
• Articles related to content
• Discovery Education videos
• Puzzle and clue creators