Get Me Out of Here challenges students to apply their critical thinking skills in a number of ways. Students develop deductive reasoning and critical reading skills by classifying, organizing, and sequencing information in order to write a series of specific instructions. Students must analyze information about the date, time, and weather conditions given for each game and determine how this information pertains to the specific events, tasks, and road hazards listed for the game.

Students use creative thinking to determine the route and sequence of tasks that take the least amount of time. Based on the information given, students must list instructions to run the vehicle and to perform the tasks in the most appropriate order.

Students develop spatial reasoning, figural analysis, and directionality by locating and marking specific places on the map while plotting their final escape route. They must write directions using east, west, north, and south. Given possible alternatives, students must identify the shortest possible route on the map.