Digital Escape Room 🧪 The Great Hillgrove Lab Lockdown BCA

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Can your students escape the Hillgrove Lab?
In this high-energy stoichiometry performance task, they’ll balance equations, calculate yield, and reason backward through BCA tables to power up the reactor and open the doors!

Hillgrove Lab Lockdown: A Stoichiometry Escape Room Performance Task
In this immersive performance task, students become chemists trapped inside the Hillgrove Laboratory after a reactor malfunction. To escape, they must apply their knowledge of stoichiometry, BCA (Before-Change-After) tables, and conservation of matter to solve a sequence of “locks.” Each challenge integrates balancing equations, identifying limiting reactants, and calculating theoretical and percent yield.
The final lock requires students to work backward from a desired product to determine the exact quantities of reactants needed to reach 100% reactor efficiency—demonstrating full mastery of quantitative relationships in chemical reactions.
This task aligns with GSE Chemistry Standard SC3, emphasizing mathematical reasoning, modeling, and real-world applications. Designed for use in Formative SSO, it offers instant feedback and collaborative engagement while making complex chemistry concepts exciting and authentic.

Intro / Scenario

Lock 2 – BCA Table Reactor

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Lock 3 – Stoichiometry Challenge

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Lock 4 – Percent Yield Vault

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⚗️ FINAL LOCK: Containment Door Override – The Last Reaction

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Congratulations! Good job!

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