Scenario Builder

Branching scenarios are choose-your-path activities where students make decisions that lead to different outcomes. Students step into a situation (a lab, a moment in history, a conflict with a friend, a character's dilemma) and see what their choices lead to, which builds critical thinking and judgment.

Good scenarios follow scenario-based learning principles: a believable situation, real choices (not obvious right and wrong answers), natural consequences rather than punishment, and a chance to recover from mistakes. Students remember what they decided, and why it worked or didn't.

This tool writes a branching scenario tree with decision points, realistic dialogue, and feedback at each step. Download it to run as a class discussion, a paper choose-your-path activity, or an interactive page in your course.