Role-play has been shown to increase student engagement and improve the overall classroom environment. When used effectively, role-play can transform a task or assignment to appear more like play than work. In this four-part lesson, role-play was used as a teaching strategy to engage students in learning the science and application of several physical science devices as they acted as agents in a superhero-like story line. As a result, the students showed a high level of engagement, actively participating in the story line and learning the associated science content. Students acted out their roles as heroes, which placed responsibility on them to learn the science behind a series of gadgets that they had to use in game-play to save a city.