Investigation Declaration is a history and civics learning game developed to place students in the role of a secret agent investigating the origins of democratic ideas. Players travel across the Atlantic World and over a century of history to trace how Enlightenment principles shaped the United States Declaration of Independence.
Investigation Declaration is a history and civics learning game that places students in the role of a secret agent investigating the origins of democratic ideas. Players travel across the Atlantic World and over a century of history to trace how Enlightenment principles shaped the United States Declaration of Independence and related documents. This investigative gameplay requires players to identify and connect specific philosophical influences to foundational democratic texts.
Enlightenment Philosophy, Democratic Origins, Historical Inquiry, Revolutionary Documents
Examine documents and evidence connected to freedom, democracy, and rights.
Explore the Atlantic World across more than 100 years of history.
Follow how Enlightenment concepts moved between regions and generations.
Reconstruct key ideas by identifying and connecting historical evidence.
Foundational democratic ideas did not emerge in isolation but developed through shared intellectual movements and historical context. Investigation Declaration helps students actively trace these connections, strengthening historical reasoning and civic understanding through inquiry-based play.
200m+ __ total game plays
145k+ __ teachers engaged annually
9m __ students reached annually
26% __ increase to student civic knowledge
36% __ increase to student civic dispositions
95% __ of iCivics teachers note students are more engaged
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