Last week, my team organized an Amazing Race for our kids. We had clues throughout the school that students had to find and interpret. My favorite clue was probably the one with a riddle that led them to a locker in the building. Then they had to solve 3 math problems to get the combination to get the next station card. This card was really hard for them, but I liked it. The clues sent them a variety of stations setup in various rooms around school. All of our stations were somehow academic. For math we had a giant Sudoku station and some logic/math puzzle stations. Our students just finished maps in social studies so they had to solve some riddles to identify note worthy attractions around the world, like the Eiffel Tower. They then had to find the location on a map and provide the longitude and latitude. The students even solved tangrams up in the office with the principal. It was a fun way for them to move around the school and interact with him.
Overall, students did well. The hardest part for them was understanding that they had to solve the riddles to get clues and not just pick up cards anywhere they saw them. We had the kids in groups and each group was a different clue "track" so that we never would have more than 3 groups at a station. This got a little messed up when they started picking up random clues...
This took a lot of set-up, but I am hoping now that it is finished that it will be easier next year. All the cards and things are in a box stored away till next year.
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| Clue Cards and Station Cards |
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| another clue card |
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| Clue Envelopes |
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| group envelopes... they kept their clues and score cards in here. |
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| giant Sudoku cards |
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| station manager cards |
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| more station envelopes |
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