Making a Plan
Now that you have been introduced to Mission US, learned about the design principles embedded in the interactive experiences, and considered some best practices in preparing to launch the mission with your students, you are ready to outline a plan to use it in your classroom.
Click on MY WORK above to review your notes and reflections from throughout this module. The following questions can help you build on the thinking you have already done and begin to create a concrete implementation plan.
- Which mission do you think is the best candidate to try first with your students? Why?
- Which unit in your curriculum does it fit into? When in the school year do you teach that unit?
- How do the themes and skills developed in the interactive experiences and classroom guides (i.e., primary source analysis, civic engagement, historical thinking) support the dominant themes and skills of your social studies instruction?
- What content and skills do you think your students will need to learn and practice before beginning the mission?
- How much class time do you usually dedicate to the events and concepts presented in the mission?
- Make a rough estimate of how much classroom time you’d like to dedicate to this mission.
- Based on your answers to the previous questions, do you think that incorporating the interactive experience will require you to modify or extend your unit? Explain why or why not.
Take Notes
- Use the space below to respond to the questions above and begin to outline a plan for implementing one or more Mission US interactive experiences in your classroom.
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