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One real problem your whole class can only solve with what you just taught them. The classroom becomes a spaceship, the crisis is built from your unit, and you take the helm. Five minutes of prep. Free for teachers.

 

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The Mission does the heavy lifting.
You take the helm.
(The kind of class teachers and students rate above a field trip)

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100+ Missions built from the units you already teach.

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Connect the Class

Easily connect the entire class with a simple session code.

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Launch

The Mission runs the scenario. You lead the thinking.

The first time a class runs one, they don't want to stop.

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“This is the only thing I have used in 24 years of teaching that I love just as much as my students do.”
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Evelyn Fowles
6th Grade Teacher
“My students love Mission.io so much! It is absolutely their favorite thing to do in my class.”
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Britt Candelaria
STEM Specialist
“For any school focused on preparing their students for the future, this is a no-brainer.”
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Principal

100+ missions for grades K-8...

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Illustrated view of a toxic pond ongoing treatment from futuristic machinery.
Kinder | Environment

Tackling Toxins

When the water of a nearby planet is contaminated, students will identify how living things are affected and find a solution.

Standards: NGSS K-ESS2-2, NGSS K-ESS-3

View from a mission of deep sea creatures glowing in a dark underwater setting.
3rd Grade | Science Literacy

The Abyss

The crew embarks on a journey to the unexplored Abyssal Zone of Tellenor’s ocean to study its bizarre deep-sea creatures.

Standards: NGSS 3-LS3-2, NGSS 3-LS4-3, CCSS.W.3.2, CCSS.RI.3.1...

A mission snapshot of a futuristic power plant in the direct path of a falling asteroid.
5th Grade | Coordinate Graphing

Brace for Impact

Using their knowledge of coordinate grids, students will protect their town's power plant from an incoming asteroid.

Standards: CCSS 6.NS.C.8

...built from the standards you already teach.

 

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(Mission.io meets ESSA Level II standards, as validated by Instructure)

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A test shows what a student remembered.
A Mission shows what they can do with it.
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Knowledge

Performance on integrated and customizable quiz questions
Knowledge

Application

How learning was applied through in-mission decisions and solutions
Application

Initiative

Measure of how well students engage in tasks and activities
Initiative

Collaboration

How effectively students engage in and complete tasks with others
Collaboration

Critical Thinking

Ability to navigate and utilize data in the decision making process
Critical Thinking

Resilience

Measure of how well students respond to failure and difficult moments

Resilience
Analytics dashboard showing different knowledge and skills scores that progressively increase throughout the year with usage.

We help you make your students more capable

What they know, what they can do, and who they become when the work gets hard. A Mission builds all three and measures them as they happen.

Students working together on a problem as a team.
COLLABORATION
Students work together to solve problems, analyze data, and make decisions
Scene from a mission showing objects defying gravity with graph readings measuring their activity.
CRITICAL THINKING
Each scenario requires students to synthesize and analyze various types of data (graphs, charts, etc.)
Students fist bump during mission
INITIATIVE
As a student-led experience, each participant can engage flexibly in their role
Two futuristic astronauts characters and a robot look bravely into an opening doorway that is illuminated with light.
RESILIENCE
The storyline of each mission adapts in real time as students make choices and solve problems
Student team speaking and reading in front of their class.
LITERACY
Each mission provides students with a compelling reason to read, write, and speak in order to be successful
Data readings from various fictional planets showing different planetary layers from crust to core.
SUBJECT MASTERY
Missions are aligned directly to state and national Math, Science, and ELA standards
Image of various cliffs from a mission scenario where students have to engineer a solution together using STEM practices.
S.T.E.M.
Students use the engineering design process to create solutions to mission scenarios

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