This Escape Room breakout activity is an exciting and engaging way to give students an overview of four key Ancient Civilizations. Students work together in groups to crack codes whilst finding out about the Mayans, Aztecs, Romans and Egyptians. Ideal as an introduction to Ancient Civilizations. The activity requires students to read texts closely for information but in a competitive and fun environment.

An engaging hot seating activity which encourages students to use their problem-solving skills to find out who the murderer is. This is a great speaking and listening activity for English classes or can be used as an introduction to historical investigation.

Use this as an introduction to the greatest detective of all time. It will also encourage your students to widen their vocabulary as they need to think of as many adjectives as they can to describe Sherlock Holmes. Use of thesauruses encouraged!

A fun way to review the use of on/at/in as time prepositions. In groups of two or three students deal out the cards face down. Students take their cards but must not look at them. Players turn over their cards together and look at them. If the cards use the same preposition the students need to shout ‘Snap!’. First player to do so keeps the cards. The player with the most cards at the end of the game wins.

Get your students moving and thinking at the same time with this interactive quiz answering questions about 5 of the main ancient civilizations. Place the names of the civilizations around the class. As you ask each question students answer by moving to the correct civilization. It can be used to introduce a unit in order to find out what they already know or during a unit as an engaging formative assessment.