{"id":8535,"date":"2022-07-15T17:57:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T17:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mission-us.org\/?page_id=8535"},"modified":"2025-04-11T20:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:54:35","slug":"why-mission-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mission-us.org\/why-mission-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mission US?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<header class=\"header-page header-default pt-xs pb-xs\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n    <div class=\"header-inner\">\n      <div class=\"pagination-wrapper pb-sm\">\n        \n              <\/div>\n              <h1 class=\"page-title title-colored\">Why use <i>Mission US<\/i>?<\/h1>\n          <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"block-default-content py-md\">\n    <div class=\"default-content\">\n              <p><iframe id=\"partnerPlayer\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 16\/9; width: 100%; border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.pbs.org\/partnerplayer\/5Vl-1hJQd88YMlhqsrar_g==\/?start=0&amp;end=0&amp;topbar=false&amp;autoplay=false&amp;muted=false&amp;endscreen=false\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Used by over 140,000 teachers and more than five million students to date,<em>\u00a0Mission US\u00a0<\/em>is part of an expanding body of \u201cserious games\u201d that immerse users in historical and contemporary problems in ways that encourage perspective-taking, discussion, and weighing of multiple kinds of evidence. Hallmarks of\u00a0<em>Mission US<\/em>\u00a0include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Proven effectiveness: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multiple research studies have shown that playing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission US<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> improves historical knowledge and skills, leads to deeper student engagement, and promotes richer classroom discussion. (Read about our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-us.org\/about\/proven-impact\/research-and-outcomes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research Studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Deeply and collaboratively researched:\u00a0<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission US <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is created by a team that includes historian educators and scholar advisors, to ensure the games and educator materials are guided by rigorous scholarship, and involves members of communities portrayed to ensure they are active participants in telling their own stories. (See our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-us.org\/about\/creating-mission-us\/process-and-development\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Development Process<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Ethical and age-appropriate design: <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission US<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> uses feedback from teachers, students, and an advisory board of experts in culturally responsive education, adolescent development, ethics and game design, and other relevant areas, to help make our games effective and engaging. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The games are constructed so that students identify with characters, make decisions, and take risks, but maintain critical distance from the situations depicted. (See our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-us.org\/about\/creating-mission-us\/ethical-design-principles\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethical Design Principles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Accessible and easy to use (in classroom and out):\u00a0<\/b><b> <\/b><i style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Mission US<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> games are designed for a wide range of learners and instructional settings. The games are available for free, online, include vocabulary and other reading supports, and are accompanied by comprehensive, standards-aligned classroom materials. (See more about <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-us.org\/teach\/\">Teaching with Mission US<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange SCXW232226169 BCX8\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW232226169 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232226169 BCX8\">Learn <\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"TrackChangeTextDeletionMarker TrackedChange SCXW232226169 BCX8\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW232226169 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun TrackChangeTextDeletion SCXW232226169 BCX8\">more about <em>Mission US <\/em>at<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW232226169 BCX8\" href=\"https:\/\/about%20our%20goals%20and%20the%20missions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"FieldRange SCXW232226169 BCX8\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW232226169 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232226169 BCX8\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">About Our Goals and the Missions<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW232226169 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW232226169 BCX8\">.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW232226169 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n          <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block-default-content py-md\">\n    <div class=\"default-content\">\n          <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission US is a deeply-researched, award-winning educational media project with proven positive impact on history learning.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7970,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8535","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Mission US? 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