Interactive Scenarios - For Kids

I just stumbled across this lesson plan for middle school and high school students to think about scenarios for UN inspections in Iraq. (The page is from 2002 - at least someone was thinking in such flexible terms.) The steps they outline are relatively generic, but largely correct:

1. Brainstorm possible outcomes...
2. Learn about the most recent findings...
3. Create flow charts to show possible chains of events that might lead to several potential outcomes...
4. Write interactive scenarios based on the flow charts designed in class.

I find it encouraging that scenario thinking is finding its way into classrooms. I also take this as a sign that scenario thinking is reaching a certain level of maturity. How long that maturity persists is another matter. If only this kind of thinking were more pervasive inside large organizations...