In May 2023, I was teaching at a MiniStix Hockey Camp when a curious kid called me “Isaac Newton’s enemy.”
It made me laugh, but it also made me wonder.
What if I could use frisbee to introduce kids to some of the greatest minds in history? Not simply as famous names and discoveries, but as real people who asked questions, experimented, made mistakes, changed direction, and kept trying.
That one comment started an idea I’ve now been working on for more than three years.
I’m excited to finally introduce The Adventures with Frisbee Rob.
Every Adventure Begins With a Question
The series follows Frisbee Rob as the Wind carries him through time to meet scientists, inventors, explorers, and other Great Minds.
Each adventure begins with a question and uses something familiar — often a frisbee — to explore ideas about the world around us.
Why doesn’t a frisbee fall immediately when you throw it?
Why can a heavy ship float while a small stone sinks?
What can a failed flying machine teach us about building the next one?
The goal isn’t to simply give kids the answers. It’s to encourage them to notice things, ask questions, experiment, make mistakes, and keep wondering.
The Adventures Have a New Home
What started as a series of stories on FrisbeeRob.com has grown into something much bigger.
The Adventures now have their own home at AdventuresWithFrisbeeRob.com.
It’s a place built specifically for kids, families, and educators to explore the entire series — the illustrated stories, audio Adventures, free guides, activities, classroom resources, and whatever the Wind carries us toward next.
Visit The Adventures with Frisbee Rob:
A New Adventure Every Week
A new illustrated Adventure will take Rob and the Wind somewhere new each week.
Every story is also released as an audio Adventure on Spotify and YouTube, giving kids and families another way to experience the stories at home, in the classroom, in the car, at bedtime, or wherever curiosity happens.
The stories themselves are free to read and listen to.
And as the series grows, I’ll also be adding free Wonder Guides, activities, puzzles, colouring pages, and other ways for kids and families to keep exploring after the story ends.
Bringing the Adventures Into the Classroom
The education side of this project has grown far beyond what I originally imagined.
Teachers can start with a free Core Implementation Guide and Reading Guide designed to help turn the Adventures into richer classroom conversations, questions, and learning experiences.
Selected Adventures also include deeper Alberta Curricular Connections for Kindergarten through Grade 6.
Each grade-specific Teacher Guide connects one Adventure across five areas of the Alberta curriculum:
- English Language Arts and Literature
- Mathematics
- Physical Education and Wellness
- Science
- Social Studies
Instead of trying to build a complete curricular package for every weekly story, new Alberta Curricular Connections will be released monthly. That gives each one the time and attention it deserves — and gives teachers time to actually use and explore it before another arrives.
The Teacher Guides for the first two curricular Adventures are available free, giving Alberta educators a chance to see exactly how the stories, questions, movement, and curriculum can work together.
More Than Something to Read
One of the things I love most about this project is that the Adventure doesn’t have to end when the story does.
Some stories connect to custom FlightPlans in the Frisbee Playbook, taking the questions into movement and hands-on exploration.
Kids can listen.
Families can wonder together.
Teachers can take the ideas deeper.
And sometimes the best thing anyone can do is simply notice something strange and ask:
Why?
The Wind Is Just Getting Started
There have been a lot of versions of this idea since that hockey camp in 2023.
Stories have changed.
Characters have developed.
Questions have led to more questions.
Which seems appropriate.
What began with one kid making a joke about Isaac Newton has become an entire world that I’m incredibly excited to keep building.
The Adventures now have their own home.
And the Wind is already stirring.
Every adventure begins with a question.
Keep wondering.
And let the Wind guide you.
