Mission+US

Mission US //Mission US// is a multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history. This free online resource can be used in a variety of ways (in the classroom, media lab, or as homework).

Register for Mission US Your teacher and students will need to set up a username and password to save their games and to move along the different levels of the game.

Play Mission1: For Crown or Colony Mission 1 Educator Guide The first game, Mission 1: "For Crown or Colony?," puts the player in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a 14-year-old printer's apprentice in 1770 Boston. As Nat navigates the city and completes tasks, he encounters a spectrum of people living and working there when tensions mount before the Boston Massacre. Ultimately, the player determines Nat's fate by deciding where his loyalties lie.

Play Mission 2: Flight to Freedom Mission 2 Educator Guide Mission 2, Flight to Freedom, focuses on resistance to slavery. Players take on the role of Lucy, a 14-year old slave in Kentucky who is trying to escape to to a life of freedom in Ohio. As students make decisions as Lucy, they discover that life in the "free" North is dangerous and difficult.

Other missions are planned for release in 2013 and 2014.