When creating this escape room quiz I learned just how important it is for the teacher to have a good understanding of what they are teaching. It is difficult for students to get a proper understanding of the lesson if the teacher is not able to describe the main points in detail, answer questions, create scenarios, and ask critical questions of the students. It is important that the teacher reads, understands, and can recite the details of a lesson before they teach it so that their students have a better chance of understanding it for themselves. Teachers that understand their lessons are able to engage students in critical thinking, blend creativity into their lessons, foster collaboration between students, and create chances for social interactions between students. It is difficult to do all of this if the teacher does not have a proper understanding of what they are teaching nor a proper relationship with their students. Not only is it important that the teacher can tell students about the lesson, but it is also important that students can connect the lesson to their current knowledge and that they can apply the lesson to real life. Jean Piaget says that students should be able to connect their lessons to previous knowledge in order to make sense of how it applies to them, he calls this schema (Berkeley, nd). Piaget also believes in constructivism or that students learn by doing rather than being told (Berkeley, nd). Lessons that include scenarios, like the escape room and experiments allow students to apply their lessons to real-life in a safe environment. This creates a deeper connection to the topic and engages them for much longer than lectures do.