TEACHER-LED, WHOLE-CLASS SIMULATIONS

Turn your lesson into a Mission

Give every lesson somewhere to go: a real problem your whole class solves with what you just taught.

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Run your first Mission this week. 5 minutes of prep. Free, no credit card.

Students

Nobody shows up for a worksheet. They’ll show up for a Mission.

Inside a Mission

  1. An astronaut lies unconscious in a medical chair wearing an oxygen mask.

    Same lesson. Now it has somewhere to go.

    IN CLASSMATH · 6.G.A.1
    Finding the area of triangles and composite shapes.
    IN THE MISSION
    Infection. Dr. Ortiz was hurt in a rover crash, and an infection is spreading through the wound. Teams calculate its exact area, so the laser removes the infection and spares the healthy tissue.

    Teams use complex shapes tomap the area of theinfection.

    A student Chromebook shows a team's plan for mapping the infected area with shapes.
  2. A volcano erupts in an animated scene.

    Human skills belong right next to the ABCs.

    IN CLASSSCIENCE · 2-ESS1-1
    Some Earth changes happen fast. Some take ages.
    IN THE MISSION
    The Speed of Change. The AI that runs Earth’s surface has fast and slow backwards: erosion that should take ages happens in seconds. Teams analyze the evidence together and retrain it before it reshapes anything else.

    The AI got these backwards.Teams decide:quick or slow?

    A student Chromebook shows four before-and-after landscape pairs, each labeled as a quick or slow change.

100+ Missions, built from what you already teach.

Science, math, ELA, and social studies, K through 8, mapped to NGSS, Common Core, and your state's standards. Find the unit you're teaching next.

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1,000,000+ students.1,000+ schools.

  • “This is the only thing I’ve used in 24 years of teaching that I love just as much as my students do.”
    Evelyn Fowles6th grade teacher
  • Students cheer at their Chromebooks, arms in the air.
  • “Unlike other tech programs in the district that often have students working in isolation or in pairs, Mission.io emphasizes true collaboration.”
    Lorilee JohnsonDistrict specialist, Alpine School District, UT
  • “At the end of the year last year, every group in my classroom listed Mission.io in the ‘Top 10 Things about Sixth Grade.’”
    Sharla York6th grade teacher, Heritage Elementary School
  • “Observe a Mission in another classroom. It will change the way you think about them.”
    Danica PuenteTeacher, Holbrook Elementary, UT
  • Two students lean in together over one screen.
  • A teacher high-fives a student in a lab coat at her computer.
  • “I even sent an email to my whole building encouraging everyone to try it.”
    JenVeteran teacher, OH
  • “Even my quiet or reluctant students participate because the Missions are structured in a way where everyone’s voice matters.”
    Adriana LopezJunior high teacher, Clint Jr. High School
  • A teacher reacts in surprise as her class works at their laptops.
  • “This is the most fun they have all week, and they’re learning the whole time. I’m not going back.”
    Lisa FreeMission Lab specialist, Cook Elementary School, UT
  • “It’s been a while since students left my period saying that was the best class ever.”
    Will CrowtherMiddle school teacher, Canyon View Middle School, UT
  • “My students ask every time they walk in the door, ‘IS IT A MISSION DAY?’”
    Kate FallonTeacher, St. Amelia School, NY
  • “Unprompted, the students all began to applaud like you see in the videos of NASA control rooms. It made my day.”
    Charity PerryKindergarten teacher, Pony Express Elementary, UT
  • A student laughs mid high five.
  • “The Missions are so engaging and entertaining my students don’t realize I am giving them an assessment.”
    Savannah WatsonTeacher, Orchard Elementary, UT
  • A teacher grins as her class reacts to the big screen.
  • “What I love most is that it’s low-prep but high-impact.”
    Ginger MarshMiddle school teacher, Cedar Middle School
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Keep your curriculum. Change what it points toward.

Now you get to say “you’re going to need this” and mean it. The lesson is the preparation. The Mission is where it gets used.

  1. Choose a Mission

    Pick from 100+ Missions and find the one that matches the unit you're about to teach.

    EXPLORE THE LIBRARY →
  2. Teach your unit

    Teach what you already planned. Every lesson now builds toward Mission day, when your class has to use it.

  3. Launch the Mission

    Students join with one code, no passwords. The Mission carries the story, so you lead the moments that make it stick.

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Free for teachers. 5 minutes of prep.

A teacher smiles at the front of the room while the Mission screen behind her reads Paused: Eyes on your teacher.

Everyone promises human skills. Every Mission measures them.

Most programs put one kid behind one screen. A few group them and call it collaboration. In a Mission, the whole class works through one story shaped by their choices, and the Mission measures the skills each student shows.

Mission.io class analytics on a four-point scale: Knowledge 4 and Application 3, shown faded, then the four human skills highlighted, Initiative 4, Collaboration 3, Critical Thinking 3, and Resilience 2.
  • Initiative

    Do they start or wait to be told?

  • Collaboration

    Do they move the team or ride along?

  • Critical Thinking

    Do they weigh evidence before they commit?

  • Resilience

    What happens after their first answer fails?

The more Missions a class runs, the more students grow.

In an independent study of 1,039 fifth graders across 53 classrooms, students who ran Missions knew more, wrote better, and were more engaged. In knowledge and writing, gains grew with every Mission run.

Knew more (g = 0.335, p < .001), wrote better (g = 0.269, p = .015), more engaged (g = 0.173, p = .009).

Content-knowledge gain, percentage points
  1. +0.91MISSION
  2. +8.59MISSIONS, STUDY AVERAGE
  3. +18.820MISSIONS, TOP OF THE RANGE

+0.94 percentage points per Mission run (p < .001). Writing also climbs per Mission (p = .049).

FOR SCHOOL & DISTRICT LEADERS

Same teachers.
Same curriculum.
More impact.

Your two biggest investments are your teachers and your curriculum. Missions map into the units you already teach and make both hit harder. And we're the only tool that measures the skills your plan promises.

ALREADY RUNNING MISSIONS

  • Los Angeles Unified School District
  • Orange County Public Schools
  • Granite School District
  • Alpine School District
  • Muskegon Area Intermediate School District
  • Calhoun Intermediate School District
  • Utah Rural Schools Association
  • Piute County School District
  • Rumson School District
  • IGNITE Entrepreneurship Academy
  • Early Light Academy
  • Columbia Elementary

STUDENT DATA PRIVACY

  • COPPA compliant
  • FERPA compliant
  • Student Privacy Pledge
  • Project Unicorn
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Most screen time makes kids look down, alone. A Mission makes the whole class look up.

At each other, at the problem, at their teacher.

FOR PARENTS →
  • Young students look up from their Chromebooks, one pointing toward the front of the room as a classmate grins.
  • Three students in lab coats point up at the Mission screen, one talking as he points.
  • A student stretches her hand high while classmates look up at her and the question on the wall screen.
  • Three young students at lab computers look up at the wall screen, a girl laughing.

Common questions

Don't see yours? Ask us anything, from your first Mission to a district rollout.

What devices do we need?

Chromebooks or tablets for your students and a projector for you. Students join with one code, and there are no student passwords to set up.

How much prep does it take?

5 minutes. Watch the Teacher Preview and you're ready to lead. Missions typically run 30 to 45 minutes.

Which grades and subjects?

K through 8: science, math, ELA, and social studies. 100+ Missions, mapped to NGSS, Common Core, and your state's standards.

Is it really free?

Yes. Your teacher account is free, never expires, and needs no credit card. It starts with unlimited access to every Mission. After that, your free account keeps a rotating set of Missions all year. School and district licenses are for leaders who want every classroom in.

How do you protect student data?

Mission.io is COPPA and FERPA compliant and a Student Privacy Pledge signatory. Need a signed DPA for your district? Talk to us.

The world is racing to make technology smarter. We help you make your students more capable.

Every lesson gets somewhere to go. Every student gets seen. It starts the next time you tell your class they're going to need this.

Free for teachers. No credit card. Independently validated.