Most of American students find it is hard to learn and remember the history of the United State, a immigrant country. It also is a difficult task to teach history to students, especially when teach the American history to ESL/EFL students. The history of an unfamiliar country and the foreign language create many difficulties when ESL/EFL students learn about American history.
Mission US tries a different way to teach the boring history into an interesting way. Watching the animation of the history stories and events becomes a relaxing and fun way to know the history and the famous people who played important roles in the history. When watching the animation, students are put in the shoes of any history people and they will be asked to complete the history mission along with the character. The whole learning process turns out to be a story-listening and game-playing experience, which is more interesting and engaging than reading and memorizing the history event from textbooks.
Besides the videos, Mission US also offers many interactive games to test students about their knowledge of US history. With the goal to reach a place on the map, they need to choose the right answer to the questions for moving step by step towards the destination.
The resource, covering overview, background, activity, other resources, is very rich for teachers to use in the real class. Teachers can download those printable documents for teaching the history class with using the videos and games in Mission US.
There only have two missions, which is limited. And adult learners may not be interested in it. And most of people are not big fans of history, so the use of this website is also limited.
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