Escape experience Aeroseum: a classical mechanics escape room
Journal article, 2024

Classical mechanics has long been a conceptually challenging topic for students. Escape Experience Aeroseum offers a novel approach to help address this issue by integrating classical mechanics into an educational escape room (EER). The escape room creatively combines physics with aerospace engineering principles, with the aim of aiding learners in making more sense of classical mechanics concepts through solving interactive, hands-on challenges. In the paper, we discuss the design and educational potential of Escape Experience Aeroseum, including the need for adaptability and appeal across different educational settings. By introducing an EER centered around classical mechanics, this work contributes to the growing interest in developing and evaluating EERs as a possible means to increase students learning, engagement, and interest in physics.

Newtonian mechanics

classical mechanics

game-based learning

undergraduate physics

educational escape room

interactive physics problems

upper-secondary school

Author

Sebastian Kilde Löfgren

University of Gothenburg

Merel Wevers

University of Twente

Jonathan Weidow

Chalmers, Physics, Materials Physics

Magnus Karlsteen

Chalmers, Physics, Materials Physics

Jonas Enger

University of Gothenburg

Physics Education

0031-9120 (ISSN) 13616552 (eISSN)

Vol. 59 4 045021

Subject Categories

Didactics

Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics

DOI

10.1088/1361-6552/ad4443

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Latest update

6/10/2024