Educational escape rooms are a great way to get students excited about your subject & engaged in classroom discussions. Through this funded teaching and learning project we have developed an adaptable template to customise your own educational escape room. The template offers a structure for five interlinked puzzles, into which subject content is embedded.
The project is designed for educators who want to use escape rooms for learning, but don’t know where to start. By customising your own escape room you’ll understand how puzzles hang together & can be used as part of your educational toolkit.
Budget was a priority in the design, as a result, all resources – including the locks – are printable, you just need to provide a large and small envelope. However, with a small budget (approx. £25 per box) you can make greater use of materials, giving your escape room a polished finish.
If you’re interested in customising your own educational escape room you can download the step by step Resource Pack, or you can work with us to co-create something more bespoke. We’d love to help you bring escape room experiences into your classroom, if you need any support please contact us at:
At Lincoln International Business School, we’ve been exploring new ways to bring the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) to life. With support from the PRME UK & Ireland Seed Funding competition, we co-developed a suite of four interactive card games designed to make sustainability education both meaningful and memorable.
The goal? To turn complex global challenges into accessible, engaging conversations – where students are not just learning about sustainability but actively playing with it.
We’ve embedded the impactful five (i5) principles—Iterative, Joyful, Meaningful, Active, Social – into the design, making the games adaptable for diverse teaching contexts.
The full Educational Packs are now ready to support colleagues across disciplines. If you’re looking for practical, playful ways to bring PRME values into your teaching, drop us a message—we’d love to share ideas. Games developed include:
17 SDG Memory Game (Pair matching game)
Sustainable Development Trumps (Trick taking game, based on Top Trumps)
Cards for Sustainability (Party game, based on Cards Against Humanity)
Concord (Cooperative deck builder, based on Dominion)
17 SDG Memory GameCards for Sustainability
The PRME Educational Packs includes cards, game instructions, and ready-to-use classroom activities. Whether it’s helping students develop awareness of the 17 SDGs through a memory game, debating which PRME-inspired action has the strongest impact, or engaging in strategic cooperation through the deck-building game Concord, each game offers a fresh angle on embedding responsible leadership into the curriculum.
Play them in your own classes, download the Educational Packs below which include free print & play versions of each game and teaching support resources, available below.
We want to help you bring these into your classroom, if you need any support in printing or playing please contact us at:
David Anderson: danderson@lincoln.ac.uk
Davina Bird: dbird@danderson
Educational Packs (Free Downloadable Resources)
Teaching Support Resources Pack
The teaching support pack provides an overview of each game, instructions for setup and game play, as well as suggested classroom activities. We encourage you to adapt these as required to best suit your student needs.
