Are your students struggling with executive functioning, academic skills, or study strategies — finding it hard to stay organized, manage time, or persist through challenges? Support them with this bundle of 12 Academic & Study Skills Digital Escape Challenge Games for PowerPoint!

Each interactive game provides an engaging, SEL-aligned adventure that teaches executive functioning, study habits, and self-management skills in a fun way. Perfect for middle school classrooms, small group counseling, Lunch Bunch activities, or whole-class lessons, these challenges help students strengthen the skills they need to succeed in learning and in life.

What’s Included

12 Digital Escape Challenge Missions, each with a unique academic/SEL theme:

Organization – Backpack Challenge
Collaboration & Teamwork – Build a Bridge Together
Working Memory – Treasure Hunt: Remember the Map!
Self-Monitoring – Detective Agency: Solve the Case
Time Management – Turtle vs. Hare
Flexibility & Adaptability – Pirate Voyage: Adjust Your Sails
Ignoring Distractions – Laser Focus Mission
Giving Your Best Effort – Reaching the Summit
Emotional Regulation (Managing Feelings in Learning) – Volcano Explorer
Task Initiation – Ready, Set, Go Race!
Perseverance & Grit – Space Mission: Reach the Stars
Goal Setting – Soccer: Score Your Goals!

Why You’ll Love It

Interactive & Engaging: Each escape room uses a fun adventure theme to capture student attention and make academic skills practice exciting.
Executive Functioning Focus: Builds key skills like organisation, self-monitoring, time management, perseverance, and emotional regulation.
Counseling & SEL Ready: Ideal for school counselors running small groups, individual sessions, or Lunch Bunch activities.
Academic & Study Skills: Supports middle schoolers (and upper elementary) with strategies that boost classroom success.
Easy to Use: Runs in PowerPoint with no prep required. Students click, choose answers, and earn keys to “escape” each challenge.
Replayable: Perfect for re-teaching, reinforcement, or repeated practice — students can play again and again.

Perfect For:

Middle school and upper elementary classrooms
Small group counseling or individual intervention
Lunch Bunch and advisory lessons
Teaching executive functioning, academic, and study skills in a fun, digital format

Give your students the tools to succeed — while keeping learning fun and interactive — with these 12 Academic & Study Skills Escape Room Challenges!

IMPORTANT TECH NOTE

This resource requires the desktop version of Microsoft PowerPoint (Windows or Mac). It is not compatible with Google Slides, PowerPoint Online, or Chromebooks without PowerPoint installed.

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