🚌 Chicago Cost Shock Simulation

Students launch the project with a fast-paced budget simulation using Chicago-specific cost cards for CTA fares, after-school meals, school supplies, and phone plans against a sample part-time income. They annotate where their money runs short, discuss trade-offs in a whole-class debrief, and capture at least three pieces of evidence from the simulation, a CTA fare chart, and a short teen budgeting quote set. The class closes by identifying who is most affected and what assumptions need to be checked in later phases.