Detective Lab - Critical Thinking Escape Room
By Micah's Learning Resources
A digital escape room with a forensic science crime lab theme. Students solve five puzzles in order before a ten-minute timer runs out, racing to collect all five pieces of evidence and close the case. What's inside - Five puzzle cards: Fingerprint Analysis, Crime Scene Protocol, DNA Evidence, Evidence Collection and Case Closed - Three typed-answer puzzles and two multiple-choice puzzles - A ten-minute countdown timer and an evidence counter showing progress out of five - Three clues per run that students can request on the current puzzle - A finish screen showing time taken with a restart button - A Teacher Resources panel with objectives, discussion questions and differentiation ideas How it works - Only the current puzzle card is open; each correct answer unlocks the next card and lights one of five fingerprint icons - Solve all five and the case is closed; let the timer reach zero and the case goes cold and can be reopened - Students read a short forensic science passage and answer the question about fingerprint patterns, securing a crime scene, DNA shape, gloves for evidence collection or physical evidence - The same five puzzles run each time, making it repeatable for warm-ups or reviews Topics covered - Fingerprint pattern types and crime scene procedures - The shape of DNA and evidence collection protocols - Physical evidence and the scientific method What you download - One file that opens in a web browser. No account and no installation. Grade Level: Grades 5 to 9
Find it on: Gumroad, Kitchen Table Curriculum