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47 missions
The Wonder Walk
Everything is interesting if you look slow
did you know · A single teaspoon of soil holds more living creatures than there are humans on Earth.
check it yourself · Smithsonian Institution · Library of Congress
Story Spark
You are a storyteller — start tiny
check it yourself · Project Gutenberg · British Library
Nature, the Engineer
Plants and bugs invented it first
did you know · Velcro was invented in 1955 after George de Mestral pulled burrs off his dog and looked at them under a microscope.
check it yourself · Smithsonian's National Zoo · IUCN Red List
Colors have feelings
Make art that says what you mean
check it yourself · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Rijksmuseum
Creative Detective
Find 10 uses for a paperclip
did you know · In a NASA-commissioned test by Dr. George Land, 98% of 5-year-olds scored as 'creative geniuses' — but only 2% of adults did.
check it yourself · NASA history archive · NIST
Time traveler
History without the boring bits
did you know · The oldest recorded joke is a Sumerian toilet joke, written down about 3,900 years ago.
check it yourself · US National Archives · British Museum
Take it apart
Curiosity > new things
did you know · Repair Cafés, started in Amsterdam in 2009, now run in over 2,500 places worldwide — where volunteers fix broken things for free.
check it yourself · Science Museum, London · USPTO
Money is just a number
How money is really made
did you know · About 97% of the money in the world today isn't paper or coins — it's just numbers in bank computers.
check it yourself · US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · OECD Data
Free tools, real power
Stuff you can use today, $0
check it yourself · US Census Bureau for kids · Science Museum, London
Your brain plays tricks
Feelings ≠ facts
did you know · Your brain uses about 20% of all the energy your body burns, even though it's only 2% of your weight.
check it yourself · US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · MIT OpenCourseWare
Why the game feels unfair
Systems, ladders & hidden doors
check it yourself · UN Statistics Division · World Bank Open Data
Spotting tricks online
Build your BS detector
check it yourself · IFLA — How to spot fake news · US National Archives
Your attention is for sale
Apps, ads & the endless scroll
did you know · The average smartphone user unlocks their phone about 58 times a day.
check it yourself · US National Institutes of Health · World Health Organization
Focus is a superpower
Time, attention & deep work
did you know · After a single distraction it takes on average 23 minutes to fully refocus on what you were doing.
check it yourself · US National Institutes of Health · World Health Organization
How news gets made
Headlines, hooks & who pays
did you know · A study of Twitter found that false news stories spread about 6 times faster than true ones.
check it yourself · IFLA — How to spot fake news · US National Archives
Food, bodies & marketing
What's fuel, what's a logo
did you know · A can of regular soda has about 39 grams of sugar — roughly 10 teaspoons.
check it yourself · USDA MyPlate · World Health Organization
Who decides? (Politics, gently)
Power without picking a team
check it yourself · United Nations — Universal Declaration of Human Rights · UNICEF — Convention on the Rights of the Child
Saying no is a skill
Boundaries, pressure & 'cool' stuff
check it yourself · UK National Crime Agency — CEOP Education · US Census Bureau for kids
Your data is you
Privacy in a world that wants it
did you know · A single popular free app can send your location data to more than 40 different companies in one day.
check it yourself · European Data Protection Supervisor · UK National Cyber Security Centre
Make something. Show somebody.
Tiny projects, real courage
check it yourself · Science Museum, London · USPTO
Pick-a-path deck
Vet, chef, coder, farmer, artist — try 'em on
check it yourself · US Bureau of Labor Statistics · OECD Skills
Allowance jar
Save · spend · share · grow
did you know · Kids who get a regular allowance and manage part of it themselves are more likely to save money as adults.
check it yourself · US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · OECD Data
Two pairs of glasses
How rich and poor eyes see the same day
check it yourself · UN Statistics Division · World Bank Open Data
You are ENORMOUS and tiny
Zoom out — then zoom in — until your brain sparkles
did you know · There are more atoms in a single glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth.
check it yourself · NASA · European Space Agency
The tiny world is weird
Quantum, without the fake mystery
did you know · The screen you're reading this on works because of quantum physics — every transistor inside relies on how electrons behave at atom-size.
check it yourself · NASA Science · NIST
Math is a language, not a test
Patterns, spirals, and why sports work
did you know · The spiral in a sunflower head, a nautilus shell and the swirl of a hurricane all follow the same math pattern — the Fibonacci sequence.
check it yourself · OEIS Foundation · MIT OpenCourseWare
A second language rewires you
50 words is enough to start being brave
did you know · About 43% of people in the world grow up speaking two or more languages.
check it yourself · Merriam-Webster · UNESCO
Books are portals
1000 lives for the price of one
did you know · Kids who are read to just 15 minutes a day hear about 1 million more words a year than kids who aren't.
check it yourself · Project Gutenberg · British Library
How bodies work (kid-sized)
Real biology, honest and calm
did you know · Every human body has two sex chromosomes — usually XX (girls) or XY (boys). This is set at the moment you're conceived and doesn't change.
check it yourself · USDA MyPlate · World Health Organization
A spoon of dirt is a jungle
Tiny fact, huge world
did you know · One teaspoon of soil holds more living creatures than there are humans on Earth.
Bees know your face
One fact, one 'no way'
did you know · Honeybees can be trained to recognise human faces by their pattern of eyes, nose and mouth.
The Sun you see is 8 minutes old
Time travel is normal
did you know · Light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach your eyes — so the Sun you see is always 8 minutes old.
More atoms in a glass than glasses in the sea
Numbers that bend your brain
did you know · There are more atoms in a single glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth.
23 minutes to come back
Every 'quick check' costs you
did you know · After a single distraction it takes an average of 23 minutes to fully refocus on what you were doing.
58 times a day
The average phone-unlock count
did you know · The average smartphone user unlocks their phone about 58 times a day.
You had 300 bones. Now 206.
Bodies rebuild themselves
did you know · A baby is born with about 300 bones. As you grow, many fuse together, so adults have 206.
The oldest joke is 3,900 years old
Kids have always been kids
did you know · The oldest recorded joke is a Sumerian toilet joke, written down about 3,900 years ago.
Beautiful flops
The best inventions started as mistakes
check it yourself · US National Transportation Safety Board · NASA Lessons Learned
The better question
A sharp question beats a memorised answer
check it yourself · NASA history archive · NIST
Fix it before you bin it
Repair is a superpower nobody teaches
check it yourself · USDA FoodSafety.gov · International Federation of Red Cross
One pot, four plates
Cook something real for the price of a snack
check it yourself · USDA FoodSafety.gov · International Federation of Red Cross
Say it in three sentences
Your idea is worthless if it stays in your head
check it yourself · Library of Congress · UNESCO
Find your way without a screen
Landmarks, north, and asking safely
check it yourself · USDA FoodSafety.gov · International Federation of Red Cross
The calm 60 seconds
What to do first when something goes wrong
check it yourself · USDA FoodSafety.gov · International Federation of Red Cross
Grow food from rubbish
A cut-off carrot top is not waste, it's a plant
check it yourself · Smithsonian's National Zoo · IUCN Red List
15 minutes, compounded
Time works exactly like money
check it yourself · US National Institutes of Health · NASA history archive
Your message swims the ocean
The internet is not a cloud — it's glass cables
check it yourself · MDN Web Docs · IETF