Data Escape Rooms: Find the Secret Lair!

Join us for this interactive online live lesson event aimed at upper primary and lower secondary students, hosted by Data Education in Schools at the University of Edinburgh.

 Briefing for Agents: The evil high-tech VIKINGS are trying to build a new secret mega lair. Discover the location to foil their plans! We don’t have enough DATA Agents to check out all the possible locations. Use information to narrow down the possibilities so that we can send out Agents to the most likely target.

 Description of learners’ task: Learners plot sets of information (bunkers, wind farms and data centres) onto a map of Scotland to work out possible locations of the secret lair. Along the way they are introduced to the basics of how the internet works with data centres and undersea fibre optic cables.

 Resources for this activity can be found at https://dataschools.education/resource/find-the-vikings-secret-lair/. We recommend printing out A3 maps prior to the activity. If you would instead like free resources posted to you before the event (colour maps and certificates for learners), please make sure to register with your address one week before the event. 

Date: 7th November
Time: 11am - 12pm