Welcome to our growing FFFBI site. Here at the Triple F, our rookie recruits — your students — conduct entertaining investigations with backdrops from contemporary global culture. Agents engaged by our site quickly learn to share the goals of the Fin, Fur and Feather Bureau of Investigation as they read, write and think, while fighting for Truth, Justice, and Stuff Like That. You'll find a wide variety of activities to encourage language arts, math, science, and research skills for kids 8-12. (Our audience is mostly 4th and 5th graders.)

This quick overview will help you find your way around. We're also happy to answer questions about our content or its use.

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FFFBI International

In partnership with National Geographic, we present a series of geography-themed missions. In each, students are introduced to a new country and are given a dossier of documents to help complete a mission.

Each dossier contains maps, forensic information, media and wiretap intercepts, background information, and images. Each mission requires students to exercise geography skills and basic problem-solving in six interactive challenges.

Each mission follows National Geographic's geography standards. Upon completion, a short Coffee Guy quiz debriefs students about the knowledge they have gained.

TIP: These activities may take up to an hour each.

Destination: India

Travel to India on a Bollywood bodyguard assignment. Discover India's neighbors, its food, clothes, and languages. Interpret maps and Hindi script. Along the way, we'll play some cricket and trek into Mumbai, the heart of India's movie capital.

Destination: Japan

The FFFBI is off to the island nation of Japan to thwart CRUST, discovering sumo, and Japanese etiquette and superstition as they go. There'll also be some map reading as we island-hop and even some reading of Japanese script to navigate around the city.

Destination: Australia

Travel to Uluru, in Australia's red desert, to remove a curse. Read maps, and estimate distance and direction. Discover Australian slang and aboriginal beliefs. Interpret symbols and understand jet lag, the international dateline, and exchange rates.

Destination: Mexico

Learn about Mexican history, language, food, and geography while helping Agents McGurk and Huevo track down the wrestler La Langosta. Just what is she up to? Does it involve Mars? Most importantly, will CRUST ever be able to design a decent lair?

Destination: Antarctica

Travel with Deputy Director Napoleon waaaay south for the winter, and learn how cold it is there (very), how much ice is there (lots), and how much mischief the Sandwich-Faced Daddy's Boys can get up to with their giant laser (tons).