Q5 Fake or Real News: Digital Breakout

9. Search Strategies

Fake or Real News Digital Breakout

Note: If you do not know what a 21T4S Digital Breakout Activity is, open the green content box on the right (What is a Digital Breakout?) above the Printer icon, read and watch the video for hints.

Check with your teacher about working with a partner or with others as a team.

Locate the five keys to solve this Digital Breakout Challenge Activity. Remember to look the page over first, then launch your timer and jot down the time it took to solve it.

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Screenshot of the Opening image of Fake or Real: Can you tell? Breakout activity.

Once you unlock it, you might want to take a screenshot of the Award for your portfolio or check with your teacher.

Please tell us what you think of this Breakout Activity so we can meet your needs. Teachers and students can use this link for a short survey about this breakout. 

MITECS  Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and

ISTE Standards for Students

2. Digital Citizen
a. Students manage their digital identity and understand the lasting impact of their online behaviors on themselves and others and make safe, legal and ethical decisions in the digital world.
b. Students demonstrate empathetic, inclusive interactions online and use technology to responsibly contribute to their communities.

3. Knowledge Constructor
a. Students use effective research strategies to find resources that support their learning needs, personal interests and creative pursuits.
b. Students evaluate the accuracy, validity, bias, origin, and relevance of digital content.


A Digital Breakout may also be called a Digital Escape Room.

This is a web-based, game-like activity where students use clues to unlock a series of puzzles or activities to solve a challenge (or to escape a digital room).

Students frequently work together, (conference, or chat) as they work to locate and solve clues.

For additional help  to solve a breakout view this short video (3:44).