Perplexed
Perplexed Overview _ MIT Challenges _ May2020.pdfVIRUS PANDEMIC
STEAM ESCAPE ROOM ACTIVITY
On the last STEAM Club day, we created a little Escape Room Activity. The theme was Pandemic! Other than the Pandemic Headquarters, the students had 4 rooms to find clues in, that would lead them to a number that would open a locker door.
During the activity, students had to decipher secret messages, binary numbers, create a scientific reaction to make medicine, program robots to deliver medicine, identify medicinal plants outside and find the vaccine.
Ahh - we found the key to the PPE Gear!
What do these messages say...wait we have candles and matches...
Ahhh - invisible ink!
Virus? Oh no...let's contact trace...we might get sick
Let's make some medicine...
Now take the medicine to the contagion room via robot transport...
Oops - we can't go in to the contagion room!
OK We've answered the quiz - false and true patterns...we have FFFFFFFT
I know, let's represent this pattern with binary digits...
Now what does the number 00000001 represent in binary....
Finally, the vaccine - it's tasty!