Table 1 Organisation of the Escape Room themes.

From: Analysis of factors influencing the acquisition of sustainable mobility through immersive experience in primary school children

Track

Macro theme

Concepts

Playing tests

1.

Active mobility

• Non-motorised vehicles: skateboards, bicycles, skates, skateboards.

• Walking and running.

• Search an alphabet soup for various ways to actively move around;

• Find the code to decipher the secret message and the first number to unlock the countdown.

2

Means of transport

• Analysis of the different means of transport about their impact on the economic, environmental and social components.

• Public transport and its characteristics.

• Search the room for various types of means of transport;

• Divide the means found into two groups according to the definition of sustainable and non-sustainable and solve the riddle formula: S-NS = C (code).

3

Mobility pyramid

• Analysis of the hierarchy of priority for travel in the city.

• Pedestrians, bicycles, public transport, freight transport, cars and motorbikes.

• A Snote (a secret message in a picture with a hidden text) forces players to watch a video that will help them answer some questions.

4

Carpooling to reduce traffic congestion

• Traffic jams: the causes and the problems that generate them.

• The solution: making the same journey by carpooling.

• Read a newspaper story and, using a cut-out template, find out the message to obtain the secret code number through a mathematical operation;

• Solve the maths puzzles in the newspaper to get the numbers to include in the formula found in the news message.

5

Organisation and planning of a city’s spaces

• Recognition and definition of different types of space in the city to create solutions towards more sustainable mobility: bicycle lanes, bus lanes, pedestrian zones, low emission zones.

• Find out the name of some areas of the road or city written with code red using glasses with red lenses;

• Find the secret number written in invisible ink on the test using a UV light.