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Our interactive stories follow a variety of themes and contain embedded challenges. The player's choices shape the story. Tasks include solving math problems, searching for clues hidden in fictionalized source material, and deciphering visual logic puzzles. The ability to follow the story by reading a variety of text genres for meaning is a prerequisite for these entertaining activities.
TIP: Each mission may take up to an hour.
Arts theme.
Financial theme.
Genetics theme.
Ecology theme.
Our monthly research challenge is a partnership with AOL@SCHOOL, America Online's nonprofit site for schools. Although research can be conducted using any search engine, this activity and its clues are geared to using AOL@SCHOOL's search tool.
TIP: Choose between Elementary or Middle School levels.
This is our series of short, geography-themed undercover missions, currently with seven destinations for jinks both high and low. Visit Japan, the Inner Pacific, Iceland, Scotland, Brazil, South Africa, and Kenya.
TIP: Use these games as an introduction to these regions, or as a starting point for doing geography research on the Web.
This is a multiple-round trivia quiz requiring players to sort information into groups. The game becomes more difficult as it progresses.
TIP: This game could be used as a reward for kids completing other classroom tasks. It's fast and fun.
Perp Walk
(requires Flash Player 4.0)
This is a multiple-round alibi game involving five suspects. Agents must compare their five alibis to see which four complement each other, and which one indicates the perpetrator of the dastardly deed. The skills needed vary, as the problems are math based, language based, or chronology based. All are tricky.
TIP: This is very much a pencil-and-paper logic game.
The Coffee Guy — an ex-FFFBI Agent shrouded both in mystery and caffeine — hosts these popular multiple-choice quizzes. He also appears within our main missions, with thoughtful questions to keep the old noodle limber.
TIP: Save this quiz for dessert. The kids will love it.
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This is a fun, Secret Agent-style encoding device. E-mail hencoded messages to confound and delight your friends!
TIP: Players must decode the messages themselves. Hencode their next homework assignment!
Our amphibious journalists, Bunkum and Codswallop, are similar to Woodward and Bernstein (though more likely to eat live insects). They host features on their own site, including a wide selection of puzzles, stories, encoded messages, and humorous activities.
TIP: The Agent Nelson profile, for example, is a great short story to use as a jumping-off point for reading comprehension or to spur on original creative writing.
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