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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At ROM activity cover showing the museum displayed on a phone

Gallery Trail: ROM Remix

Look closer at your favourite things, and imagine your own display.

  • Grades 1 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
A teacher stands in front of a projector board displaying a virtual clothing store.

Activity: Sustainable Style: Weighing the Value

Investigate and evaluate the items at a local shop to see which is really the most valuable.

  • Grades 4 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
A teacher stands in front of a class. The board behind her shows a paper with a sketch of a sustainable school blueprint, some markers, and a planning sheet. Text says ROM Activity

Project: Sustainable Style: Sustainable School or Community

Redesign your community or school in a sustainable way!

  • Grades 3 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
A teacher stands at the front of a class. The board behind her displays a coloured life jacket surrounded by art supplies. Text says ROM Activity

Activity: Sustainable Style: Design a Lifer

Design your own addition to this inspiring exhibition

  • Grades 1 - 12
  • Ages 4-5, 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
A Minecraft screenshot of a dinosaur dig in a red sand desert

ROM Minecraft

Learn more about our independent, self-guided, and special event Minecraft programs

  • Grades 3 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Computer on a desktop shows A print showing a man dreaming of a farting god and a person on horesback beneath the smiling face of a giant catfish. Words on image read "virtual ROM"

Virtual Exhibition Experience: Aftershocks: Japanese Earthquake Prints

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+
A computer screen displays a Greek statue of a woman with red hair. Text reads Virtual ROM.

Virtual Exhibition Experience: Colours of Kore

See how this amazing sculpture makes us re-think our ideas about the past

  • Grades 3 - 8
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14
Teacher standing in front of a board showing small flowerpots painted with black-figure art

Activity: Painted Pottery

Decorate an ancient Greek-inspired vase.

  • Grades 4 - 8
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14
White sugar crystals

Activity: Sweet Science

Use some sweet kitchen chemistry to grow your own sugar crystals.

  • Grades 3 - 8
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14
Mosaic of a sun made from yellow, blue, and black squares.

Activity: ROMan Mosaic

Create a Roman-inspired mosaic

  • Grades 3 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14
A screenshot of scratch game code

Coding with Copper Workshop

Explore the importance of copper and learn to code a game!

  • Grades 4 - 10
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Text that says Virtual ROM and a computer with sleeping whales on the screen

Virtual Exhibition Experience: Great Whales: Up Close and Personal

Journey into the deep with three great whales

  • Grades 4 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
A line drawing of a dragonfly

Insect Colouring Book

Get creative by colouring 6 different spring and summer insects!

  • Grades 1 - 6
  • Ages
A line drawing of a moose

Indigenous Colouring Pages

Get your crayons and markers to bring these pages to life!

  • Grades 1 - 6
  • Ages 0-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-10
A woman stands in front of an antique drawer of rock specimens

ROM at Home: Ask ROM Anything

Learn the secrets of the museum's collections from the ROM curators and technicians

  • Grades 6 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
A woman and child walk down a gravel path on a nature trail through the forest.

ROM at Home: ROM Around You

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
A woman in a dinosaur dress stands in a gallery of dinosaur skeletons. Next to her is the cover of the book "Burton & Isabelle Pipistrelle."

ROM at Home: ROM Storytime

Join ROM teacher Sarah Elliott for fun stories and creative challenges

  • Grades 1 - 4
  • Ages 0-3, 4-5, 6-7
Chocolate chip cookie on grid paper, some chocolate chips removed or “mined” from the product beside it

Activity: The Most Delicious Mine

Dig into the basics of mining by extracting chocolate chips from a cookie

  • Grades 4 - 8
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14
A young man wears a white toga

Activity: Wear a Toga!

Learn how to step out in style like an ancient Roman citizen

  • Grades 1 - 11
  • Ages 4-5, 6-7, 8-10, 11-14
A feather with red, yellow, white, and black on the tip next to the words Indigenous Voices

Indigenous Voices

Watch our Indigenous Educators and guests share stories about ancestral objects

  • Grades 1 - 12
  • Ages 4-5, 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
A set of doors beneath a golden mosaic archway

Virtual ROM @ Google Arts & Culture

Virtually explore the museum from the comfort of your home

  • Grades 1 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
Water washes over two feet standing on a sandy beach

What Size Footprint Are You Leaving on the Earth?

Calculate your ecological footprint with this resource developed by the ROM for the Biodiversity Education and Awareness Network

  • Grades 9
  • Ages 14+
a model of a blue jay flying through a fall forest

Ontario's Backyard Birds

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
Children and a teacher stand around a tree looking up

Let's ID That Tree!

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
A turtle and fish surround a pipe clogged with zebra mussels.

Invasion of the Zebra Mussels

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+
a phone displays a dating app with a picture of a trilobite

Game: eCambrian

Find your match in the Cambrian dating pool

  • Grades 6 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
a picture of a trilobite with the title "Cambrian Creatures"

Game: Cambrian Creature Creator

Assemble Cambrian creatures to see what makes them tick

  • Grades 4 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
colourful arms pull an organism through water

Game: MicroMash

Will you be the last one standing?

  • Grades 4 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
two red creatures float against a blue background

Game: prOto

Journey through billions of years of evolution

  • Grades 4 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
a man and a cartoon turtle stand in front of a statue of Aphrodite

App: Pokémon GO - #PokeROM PokéStop Tour

Learn more about the museum's PokéStops!

  • Grades 1 - 12
  • Ages 0-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
ancient organisms swim in an ocean

Burgess Shale Virtual Museum

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+
photo of an entelodont skull

Online Collections

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+
curiosity quest gameplay screen

Game: Curiosity Quest

Command the Curiosity rover and see what you discover

  • Grades 2 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
erf gameplay

Game: E.R.F. - Earth Rescue Force

Defend the Erf from incoming asteroids

  • Grades 6 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
a round cartoon astronaut beneath the Astro-Miners title

Game: Astro-Miners

Blast through the asteroid and be the first to grab the minerals

  • Grades 4 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
pluto's revenge title screen

Game: Pluto's Revenge

Pluto is determined to prove itself a planet! But can it?

  • Grades 2 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
robots hunt for rocks on mars

Game: Rogue Rovers

ERROR: Rovers gone rogue! Collect rocks on Mars and keep them away from the astronaut!

  • Grades 3 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
an animated hawk and owl fight over a squirrel

Game: Clash of the Talons

A battle between mighty birds of prey

  • Grades 2 - 12
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14, 14+
coloured blocks form a pyramid

Game: Pyramid Party

Build your pyramid to the sun, but watch out for Sekhmet!

  • Grades 2 - 12
  • Ages
coloured blocks approach a square with coloured sides

Game: Polygrowth

Eat. Grow. Mutate. Evolve.

  • Grades 4 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
an animated dodo stands on a green field surrounded by rats

Game: Dodo A Gogo

Avoid the rats to escape extinction!

  • Grades 2 - 8
  • Ages 6-7, 8-10, 11-14
a dinosaur surrounded by sparkles

Game: Paleo Puzzle

Help Professor Rex assemble a skeleton for the museum

  • Grades 1 - 6
  • Ages 4-5, 6-7, 8-10, 11-14
Screenshot from Relic Ravage

Game: Relic Ravage

Fight in the past to discover treasures in the future

  • Grades 3 - 5
  • Ages 8-10
a shark overhead in the Schad gallery

Project: Big Shark, Big Loss, Big Impact: Sharks are Apex Predators

Use predator-prey games to understand why ecosystems need predators

  • Grades 4 - 8
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14
A hammerhead shark preys on rays

Project: Big Shark, Big Loss, Big Impact: Sharks Change Prey Behaviour

Use predator-prey games to understand how predators shape ecosystems

  • Grades 4 - 8
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14
two sample court hats made by students doing the activity

Activity: Make an Imperial Court Hat

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
a girl holds a paper showing the name "Charlotte" in hieroglyphs

Activity: Write Your Name in Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Learn to write your name like ancient Egyptian royalty

  • Grades 3 - 12
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14, 14+
A mummy lying on a red surface

Activity: Make a Mummy Case

Create a mini-mummy case to learn how ancient Egyptians planned for the afterlife

  • Grades 3 - 8
  • Ages 8-10, 11-14