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Episode 185: Online Choose Your Own Adventure Games

Host: Meryl Van de Merva | Podcast: Homeschooling with Technology

Welcome!
This episode explores online choose-your-own-adventure games, ideal for homeschoolers to engage in reading, decision-making, and critical thinking.

What are Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Games?

These games offer stories where players make choices that shape the narrative. Traditionally available as books, they are now accessible as online games. Meryl recalls playing a text-based version called Adventure Game in her youth—and many similar options are still available today.

185: Online Choose Your Own Adventure Games

This episode explores the benefits of using Online Choose Your Own Adventure Games as part of your homeschool and gives some specific examples of some you can use.

In a previous podcast episode, I shared ways your children can create their own Choose Your Own Adventure game

To start with – homeschool parents here is one you can “play” – Choose Your Own Homeschool High School Adventure is an interactive slideshow to help both new and veteran homeschoolers with topics relating to homeschooling high schoolers.

Benefits of using Online Choose Your Own Adventure Games

1. Reading practice

• Sesame Street book builder
• Castaway

2. Practice making decisions

• Time for Payback

3. Encourages critical thinking

• Total Darkness

4. Allows students to apply what they have learned

• Harmony Square
• Lifesaver interactive films

5. Creates discussion around a topic

• Tech start up

6. Creates empathy

• Syrian Refugee Game 1