This little about Dumptown takes you to dirty, yucky looking town where you get to institute recycling programs that help tidy the place up.

The graphics are bright and colorful and there’s near constant animation as garbage trucks keep rolling by. It’s fun and attractive and seems to be designed for elementary kids.

One element of the game may make it appropriate for older kids, too. As you go to Dumptown’s city hall to set up programs to help clean up the town, you also get to see the cost of the programs. That’s one feature I really appreciate. Nothing comes free and cleaning up your neighborhood is no exception. Since we have finite resources, this extra portion could be used to help students see that if they spend money on garbage clean up that will take it away from pleasure spending, or even social spending to help the poor.

Choices are always hard, even when doing something good, and I think this game can help illustrate that.