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Order of Operations Escape Room | Earth Day Printable and Digital

Earth Day escape room with printable task cards and a linked digital version: students read a background story and solve 20 order of operations problems to earn clues that move the story forward.
Grades
Grades 5–7, Elementary, Middle School
Pages
20
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated Oct 26, 2026

Subject
Holiday & Seasonal, Math, Order Of Operations, Holidays, Earth Day
Topic
Matemaths, Order of Operations
Resource types
Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
Answer key
Included
Standards
5.OA.A.1

About this resource

What's inside this resource

Looking for a fun and engaging Earth Day Themed activity that will also help your students practice their Order of Operations skills?

In this escape room, students will work together to solve 22 problems involving order of operations (with parentheses and no exponent). As they solve each problem, they will be rewarded with a clue that will help them move forward and save the Planet.

The escape room is completely online and self-contained, so there is no prep required, no google class or Microsoft logins are required.

A printable version (with background story and task cards) of the escape room is also provided.

Simply provide your students with the link and they are off! The escape room can be used in a variety of ways, such as:

  • Additional materials for remediation

  • A reward or "Fun Friday" activity

  • A pre-holiday break activity

  • An emergency sub lesson plan

Features

  • Fun and engaging Thanksgiving theme

  • Rigorous operations with integers practice problems

  • Self-contained and easy to use

  • No prep required

  • No Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams logins necessary

Benefits

  • Helps students practice their operations with integers skills

  • Improves problem-solving skills

  • Promotes teamwork and collaboration

  • Provides a fun and challenging learning experience

How to Use

  1. Provide your students with the link to the escape room.

  2. Students will work together to solve the problems and solve the mystery.

  3. Once they have solved all 22 problems, the thief will be revealed and Thanksgiving dinner will be ready!

Tips

  • Encourage students to work together and share ideas.

  • If students get stuck, allow them to take a break and come back to the escape room later.

  • You can also provide students with hints or clues if needed.

In the download file you will find the link to the activity, share that with your students and each one of them will have his own copy.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Evaluate the Earth Day task card expressions, which use parentheses but no exponents
  • Show each step when simplifying a multi-step expression

Teaching tips

  • The printable version needs its task and clue cards cut apart before use; the digital version needs a device with internet access.

Skills covered

  • Order of operations — solving task card problems to unlock each clue in the Earth Day story

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • 5.OA.A.1 — Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols.

Core concepts

  • Order of operations
  • Parentheses
  • Earth Day

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