EGU24-6738, updated on 08 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-6738
EGU General Assembly 2024
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Eco-Enigma Expedition Escape Room - The soils and climate change. 

Elsa Salzedas1 and Kelly O'Hara2
Elsa Salzedas and Kelly O'Hara
  • 1High School Afonso de Albuquerque, Guarda, Portugal (elsa.salzedas@gmail.com),
  • 2Beira Interior University, Covilhã, Portugal ( ohara@ubi.pt)

Present an ongoing project named “ Eco-Enigma Expedition Escape Room”. The aim is
to an immersive escape room experience designed to raise awareness and promote
action against climate change. The storyline is about a critical mission, 60 minutes to
Rescue the Planet. By solving a series of puzzles and challenges within a limited
timeframe to prevent an impending environmental catastrophe caused by climate
change. Each puzzle/challenge/enigma reveals important pieces of information or/and
action that can help mitigate the crisis. The Escape room is composed by 6 activities,
each of then relates action for change the climate or behavior to do it and a specific
ODS substantiable goal. In each activity, players will collect a code that will be use to
open the door that drove them to a healthy planet. The escape room will be created
with students from Hight School, given this project a Win-Win situation, not only the
have to investigate, gather information, be creative, reflecting STEAM experiental
learning context, and at the same time, we produce a game that can be played by all
school, representing more that 1000 students.

How to cite: Salzedas, E. and O'Hara, K.: Eco-Enigma Expedition Escape Room - The soils and climate change. , EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-6738, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-6738, 2024.