The Mongol Conquest: Digital Escape Room and Engaging Digital Text

This bundle contains a digital escape room and a digital text about the Mongol Conquest. The students will have greater success on the digital escape room if they read the digital text first.

About the Mongol Conquest Digital Text:

This visually engaging digital text about the Mongol Conquest addresses essential content relevant to the history of the Mongol Empire. Topics addressed include life on the Eurasian Steppe, the life and significance of Genghis Khan, reasons for Mongol success in their conquest of Europe and Asia, Kublai Khan, Mongol Rule in China, and Marco Polo.

This Google Slide presentation is fully editable and customizable. Its 17 slides contain a clear and easily readable synopsis of the content listed above as well as maps, images, and a quick and engaging video about life on the Eurasian Steppe.

You could compose questions for the presentation or assign it as an overview reading. I had difficulty finding a text summarizing key concepts about Mongol history in an easily digestible fashion, so I created my own.

About the Mongol Conquest Digital Breakout:

I designed this digital breakout as a way to introduce the Mongols to my 7th graders. This digital escape room is relatively short and straightforward. Most kids can complete it within a half-hour to 40 minutes if working in teams. There are eight locks in total. Please review the pronunciation of some terms prior so that the kids can solve the rubuses. The kids will solve locks including

• a short poem to ponder
• rebuses
• a virtual jigsaw puzzle
• short readings with comprehension puzzles

This product contains a link to a game I created on Breakout Edu. All the clues are already loaded, and the game is entirely ready to go. I made every clue using Google Slides.

I also included a link to my Google Drive folder that contains every clue (slide). This way, you can copy it and edit things to make them your own if you so desire. If you do make changes, you'll need to recreate the escape room in either Breakout Edu, Google Forms, or another format so that you can incorporate the changes that you've made.

And an answer key is also included as well as a victory message.