Activities & Resources
A comprehensive series of gallery trails, videos, crafts, virtual tours, and other activities and resources are found below. Find what you need to engage with ROM’s collections before, during, and after your Museum visit. Whether you’re visiting with a school group, researching a project, or looking for fun games and activities to enjoy, there’s something here for everyone.
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Discover the secrets of these incredible dinosaurs
- Grades 4 - 12
- Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Discover the world's most striking wildlife photos!
- Grades 4 - 12
- Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Discover how humour and satire can be used to address the impacts of disaster
- Grades 3 - 12
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
See how this amazing sculpture makes us re-think our ideas about the past
- Grades 3 - 8
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14
Dive into a virtual, self-guided, annotated 360 tour of Great Whales: Up Close and Personal
- Grades 3 - 12
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Use some sweet kitchen chemistry to grow your own sugar crystals.
- Grades 3 - 8
- Ages 8-10, 11-14
Explore the importance of copper and learn to code a game!
- Grades 4 - 10
- Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Journey into the deep with three great whales
- Grades 4 - 12
- Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Get creative by colouring 6 different spring and summer insects!
- Grades 1 - 6
- Ages
Get your crayons and markers to bring these pages to life!
- Grades 1 - 6
- Ages 0-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-10
Learn the secrets of the museum's collections from the ROM curators and technicians
- Grades 6 - 12
- Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
ROM Teacher Julie Tomé guides us through new discoveries about the objects all around us
- Grades 3 - 8
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14
Join ROM teacher Sarah Elliott for fun stories and creative challenges
- Grades 1 - 4
- Ages 0-3, 4-5, 6-7
Dig into the basics of mining by extracting chocolate chips from a cookie
- Grades 4 - 8
- Ages 8-10, 11-14
Learn how to step out in style like an ancient Roman citizen
- Grades 1 - 11
- Ages 4-5, 6-7, 8-10, 11-14
Watch our Indigenous Educators and guests share stories about ancestral objects
- Grades 1 - 12
- Ages 4-5, 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Virtually explore the museum from the comfort of your home
- Grades 1 - 12
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Calculate your ecological footprint with this resource developed by the ROM for the Biodiversity Education and Awareness Network
- Grades 9
- Ages 14+
Get to know your backyard birds with this resource developed with the ROM for the Biodiversity Education and Awareness Network
- Grades 4 - 6
- Ages 8-10
Learn to identify trees around you with this resource developed with the ROM for the Biodiversity Education and Awareness Network
- Grades 3 - 4
- Ages 8-10
Analyze data sets to study invasive species in this resource developed by the ROM for the Biodiversity Education and Awareness Network
- Grades 12
- Ages 14+
Assemble Cambrian creatures to see what makes them tick
- Grades 4 - 12
- Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Dive into the Schad Gallery of Biodiversity and explore life beneath the waves
- Grades 2 - 12
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Learn more about the museum's PokéStops!
- Grades 1 - 12
- Ages 0-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Download the MagnusCards app to access guides about visiting the ROM and touring the Dinosaur Gallery
- Grades 4 - 12
- Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Discover some of the earliest, most unusual forms of life on Earth found in this Canadian World Heritage Site
- Grades 2 - 12
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Explore the ROM's vast collections and learn more about selected objects and specimens
- Grades 1 - 12
- Ages 4-5, 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Command the Curiosity rover and see what you discover
- Grades 2 - 12
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Defend the Erf from incoming asteroids
- Grades 6 - 12
- Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Blast through the asteroid and be the first to grab the minerals
- Grades 4 - 12
- Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Pluto is determined to prove itself a planet! But can it?
- Grades 2 - 12
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
ERROR: Rovers gone rogue! Collect rocks on Mars and keep them away from the astronaut!
- Grades 3 - 12
- Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
A battle between mighty birds of prey
- Grades 2 - 12
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Help Professor Rex assemble a skeleton for the museum
- Grades 1 - 6
- Ages 4-5, 6-7, 8-10, 11-14
Discover the stories that art and objects tell about the people connected to them
- Grades 6 - 12
- Ages 11-14, 14+
Use predator-prey games to understand why ecosystems need predators
- Grades 4 - 8
- Ages 8-10, 11-14
Use predator-prey games to understand how predators shape ecosystems
- Grades 4 - 8
- Ages 8-10, 11-14
Discover what a Chinese court hat tells you about its owner by creating your own
- Grades 1 - 6
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14
Learn to write your name like ancient Egyptian royalty
- Grades 3 - 12
- Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Examine the objects used by common people, nobility, and royalty to discover more about China's vast history
- Grades 2 - 12
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Discover fossil clues from that help us understand how dinosaurs lived millions of years ago
- Grades 2 - 12
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Discover the treasures from the Earth we use every day, from the ordinary to the extraordinary!
- Grades 2 - 12
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Discover the amazing and diverse adaptations that help living things survive and thrive
- Grades 2 - 12
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Investigate the lives of the Ancient Egyptians
- Grades 2 - 12
- Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Create a mini-mummy case to learn how ancient Egyptians planned for the afterlife
- Grades 3 - 8
- Ages 8-10, 11-14