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Part of our guide: Free online games for homeschoolers
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
2. Practice making decisions
3. Encourages critical thinking
4. Allows students to apply what they have learned
5. Creates discussion around a topic
6. Creates empathy
7. A creative way of learning new material or reviewing
Don’t forget to sign up your homeschooled high schoolers for sponsor FundaFunda’s annual summer High School Challenge for homeschoolers in rising 9th – 12th grade. This contest gamifies the learning and offers gift card rewards – as well as an overall cash prize.
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Take a look at show sponsor, FundaFunda Academy to see what they offer for online classes and web-based unit studies.
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Using Choose Your Own Adventure Games Across Your Homeschool
Choose your own adventure games aren’t just for screen time—they’re genuine teaching tools. Whether you play them online or reach for a board game or card deck, these interactive stories let kids make decisions that shape the outcome, which builds critical thinking and problem-solving in a way worksheets rarely do. They also make wonderful independent work.
Best of all, they stretch across every subject. You’ll find choose-your-own-adventure style games for social studies, math, language arts, and science topics like the rock cycle. Younger students can explore early history or the United States, while older kids dig into world history or a closer study of Native American cultures. Because most online versions run right in Chrome, Firefox, or Edge—and tools like Google Slides let kids build their own—they’re easy to weave into any homeschool day, from first graders through high schoolers.
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