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Adjust your height, speed, and angle to see if you can hit a home run.
If the weather's nice, try this outside activity- Thrown for a Curve.
If the weather's not nice- find out more about the history of baseball and the people who had the ideas to make it what it is today. Click here to start your investigation.
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Dribble through the neighborhood and sink as many baskets as possible in 60 seconds!
Basketball was invented in America. In 2006, the NBA thought it was time to make a better ball. Click here to learn all about it.
The new basketball didn't last so long- but why? Click here to start your investigation.
Invention Lesson: Not all improvements work out- you have to make sure the people who are going to use your invention like it!
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Not only was Michael Jordan one of the best basketball players of all time, but also an excellent golfer. Tiger Woods once said he’d give MJ a two-stroke lead and regret it. We’re not sure about his ping-pong game, but here you can play basketball, golf, and pong all at the same time.
Did you know: Golf was invented almost 700 years before basketball, in Scotland, and has pretty much remained the same ever since. Basketball, invented in Massachusetts, used to be played with a volleyball, inside a steel cage.
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Try this challenging mountain bike game. You must keep your bike upright or you'll skin your knee!
Learn more about the history of the bicycle. Think about what improvements you would like to make to your bike. Draw it or write about it and send it into the Inventor's Gallery.
Did you know that the bicycle has a very important connection to the airplane? Find out how they are connected in the Investigation Zone.
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Drive down the speedway, dodging cars and other items.
Tires are made from rubber, but without a process called vulcanization rubber would not be useful for cars at all. Click here to find out about the inventor of vulcanization.
Many times, like as in vulcanization, different people make the same discovery or invent something similar at the same time. So be a smart inventor and keep notes with dates, and find out if you can apply for a patent. Learn more about protecting your ideas in your Inventors Zone.
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Jump out of a plane, check the wind, then pull the cord to open your parachute and aim for the target!
Click here to learn more about the history of the parachute and the first brave people to try it!
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Use your mouse to control your character in several inline skating games. Make sure to do the kids game so you can answer the question!
Inline skates as we know them today were “invented” by a pair of young brothers, Scott and Brennan Olson. They started the company that became Rollerblade, the first big manufacturer of inline skates.
However, skates similar to rollerblades had been around much earlier. The Olson brothers discovered a pair of these and were inspired to improve them for today.
Click here to find out more about inline skates.
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Pick one of the 32 qualifying World Cup teams to enter the soccer tournament and take home the trophy!
A soccer ball seems pretty simple, doesn’t it? But look closely, it’s pretty complicated- the black and white pattern is made up of hexagons and pentagons!
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Surfing was invented by the Pacific islanders of Polynesia and was known in old Hawaiian as “he’e nalu”, which means wave sliding. Test your wave sliding skills with this game!
To get inspired to create the next great surfing innovation you'll need to know about the Science of Surfing. Check it out!
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How do you play beach volleyball with no net or beach? It just takes a little ingenuity!
See how many times you can spike the ball!
Click here to learn more about volleyball- who invented it and the name that the game had first.
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Poke around the Sports Nut tree to find out the true beginnings of important sports innovations.
Was the catcher's mask inspired by a spaghetti strainer? Did pirates invent surfing? Find out these thing and more with this activity at Sports Illustrated for Kids.
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You probably know from playing real sports that a quick, almost automatic, reaction time is very important.
Here is an online game that will clock your reaction time and help improve it!
When you're warmed up, click here for an in-person test to challenge your friends.
