Four self-contained history escapes for grades 6–8. Students analyze primary sources, trace cause and effect, and evaluate historical claims — cracking four locks each. No logins, no prep, runs in any browser.
Read the Declaration as an argument — principle, grievances, conclusion — and answer straight from the text.
Open breakout ▶Trace the road to revolution — taxes, the Tea Party, Britain's response — and sort causes from effects.
Open breakout ▶Compare "all men are created equal" with the reality of 1776, and trace how amendments extended rights.
Open breakout ▶Fact-check a viral claim about 1776: weigh the sources, catch the fake quote, separate signal from noise.
Open breakout ▶Each breakout works as a bellringer, station, partner activity, or short investigation. Project it for a whole-class analysis, or let pairs work through the sources. Every lock ends with a short why so the reasoning sticks, not just the answer.