Mission US Classroom Guides
Each Mission US interactive experience is accompanied by a Classroom Guide. The guides offer an extensive set of resources to support using the missions in your class. The classroom guide activities fall into four categories:
- Decision Trackers (note-taking)
- Mission Reflections (discussion questions)
- Document Analysis Activities
- Document-based Writing Activities
Other resources in the guides include historical context for both students and teachers, profiles of people and places that appear in the interactive experience, and a curated list of additional resources about the historical focus of the mission.
You can use the Classroom Guide activities as they are or adapt them to suit your needs. The resources may also inspire you to create your own activities.
Take Notes
- Review the available materials and activities in the Classroom Guide for a Mission US interactive experience you are interested in integrating into your class. We recommend you start with the Curriculum Overview chart in the "Teach This Section" of each guide.
- Identify the mission most strongly aligned to your educational objectives and curriculum.
- Write down a preliminary list of the activities you and your students will complete during your use of Mission US.
- Next, identify which of the Essential Questions and Historical Thinking Skills (listed in the Curriculum Overview) would be central to your teaching with the mission.
