Community Budget Board

Use fictional community cards to compare how public money choices can support services, tradeoffs, fairness, and needs.

Economics - Economics/Environment Pack 7

Symbolic civic finance model Community Budget Board symbolic public-service visualizationEducational toy model only

Needs signal0.45 s

Community card9.8 cards

Service area1 areas

Tradeoff marker0.05Fairness lens5 levels

Activity objective

Use fictional community cards to compare how public money choices can support services, tradeoffs, fairness, and needs.

Teacher guidance

Ask what is gained and what is given up.
Keep money, time, and resources distinct.
Use concrete counters before abstract graphs.

Evidence checklist 0/5

Prediction before moving the community card.
Public services, tradeoffs, fairness, and community needs compared.
Evidence note and uncertainty recorded.
Fictional community cards stayed fictional.
No-advice boundary confirms no real tax or personal data was used.

Cross-platform readiness3/3

Web demo playusable

tax-allocator renders as a economics toy model with adjustable controls, a checklist, and public safety copy.

Keep rendered route, console, network, and safe-copy checks attached before release embedding.

Native mobile screencontract ready

The surface uses touch-sized controls, a single-column mobile layout, no hover-only actions, and no raw child media capture.

Port the same controls into the native shell and verify phone, tablet, offline resume, reduced motion, and bottom-rail navigation.

ChromeOS input paritycontract ready

The web surface keeps range controls, stepper buttons, evidence capture, and review links available to keyboard, pointer, and touch users.

Capture Chromebook-class keyboard, pointer, touch, reduced-motion, and timing proof before widening classroom rollout.

Public copy and safety

Keep the activity local-first, age-appropriate, and behind teacher review before public sharing.
This is a symbolic classroom civic finance model using fictional community cards and invented public services. No tax advice, no filing guidance, no refund estimate, no legal advice, no financial advice, no eligibility decision, no real income data, and no personal financial data is involved.
No raw device data, child media, or biometric input.

Build packet status

Teacher review focuses on public services, tradeoffs, fairness, community needs, and the no-advice boundary before classroom sharing.

Asset assemblyControl wiringEvidence captureRelease gate

Cross-platform readiness3/3

Web demo playusable

tax-allocator renders as a economics toy model with adjustable controls, a checklist, and public safety copy.

Keep rendered route, console, network, and safe-copy checks attached before release embedding.

Native mobile screencontract ready

The surface uses touch-sized controls, a single-column mobile layout, no hover-only actions, and no raw child media capture.

Port the same controls into the native shell and verify phone, tablet, offline resume, reduced motion, and bottom-rail navigation.

ChromeOS input paritycontract ready

The web surface keeps range controls, stepper buttons, evidence capture, and review links available to keyboard, pointer, and touch users.

Capture Chromebook-class keyboard, pointer, touch, reduced-motion, and timing proof before widening classroom rollout.

Public copy and safety

Keep the activity local-first, age-appropriate, and behind teacher review before public sharing.

This is a symbolic classroom civic finance model using fictional community cards and invented public services. No tax advice, no filing guidance, no refund estimate, no legal advice, no financial advice, no eligibility decision, no real income data, and no personal financial data is involved.

No raw device data, child media, or biometric input.