Dinosaur Escape Room! - With Indiana Bones Ages 7-11

Indiana Bones’ Dinosaur Escape Room!

Famed explorer Indiana Bones is embarking on a bone-chilling adventure. Stranded on a Jurassic Island, the explorer has a bone to pick with some deadly dinosaurs standing in the way of his escape. Can you join his quest and fight fearsome foes, crack curious codes and ponder perilous puzzles, all while keeping hidden from the T-Rex?

Excerpt:

*Indiana Bones…

If you’re reading this you ought to know,

We’re really in a jam.

The dinosaurs are on the loose and it’s totally bedlam!

I’m afraid it is bad news, my friend, for now you’re trapped here too.

I’ll tell you once, I’ll tell you twice,

The stories heard were true.

The secrets are SAFE with lock and KEY.

The clues are deftly hidden.

You’ll have to use your wits, good Sir, false entry is forbidden!**

Dinosaur Escape Room Builds Critical Thinking & Logical Reasoning

Using escape rooms in education is a brilliant way to make learning interactive, challenging, and exciting! Research and classroom experience show they encourage multiple higher-order thinking skills: hypothesising, pattern recognition, deduction, reasoning under constraints, and reflecting on strategies.

PaperBox Escape Room games are ideal learning tools because they turn learning content into immersive problem-solving activities that can be tailored to curriculum goals.

Key habits that children will practise include:

• Logical reasoning: Decoding codes, pattern recognition, building links between clues.
• Critical thinking: Interpreting information, eliminating incorrect paths, and adapting strategies.
• Collaboration & communication: Working with peers to share ideas, defend reasoning, and build consensus.
• Persistence & resilience: Facing tricky puzzles and using systematic approaches to solve them.

How It Connects With the UK Curriculum:

Primary Science & Working Scientifically
Dinosaurs and prehistoric life offer a natural link to the National Curriculum’s science content and enquiry skills:

Rocks & Fossils: In Key Stage 1 and 2 science, pupils learn how fossils are formed and recognise that fossils provide evidence of past life as an entry point for dinosaur-themed lessons.

Evolution & Inheritance (KS2): By Years 5–6, children explore how living things have changed over time and how fossils help scientists deduce ancient lifeforms. Dinosaur-themed puzzles can reinforce these concepts while also requiring reasoning and interpretation.

Working Scientifically Skills: Escape rooms demand asking questions, predicting outcomes, testing ideas, and reflecting on results. These are all core components of scientific enquiry in the curriculum.

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