This Relic Room is built to be safe for classroom use by design: the activity collects nothing and sends nothing anywhere.
What we collect
Nothing. There are no accounts, no logins, no analytics, no tracking cookies, and no data sent to any server. Everything runs inside the student's browser. The only things stored are the student's own progress, their typed reflection notes, and the language choice — kept in that browser's localStorage (keys relicRoom.clouds.v1 and tcea.breakouts.lang), which never leave the device. The Reset Activity button erases the saved progress at any time.
Outside requests
None. The activity loads no web fonts, scripts, ad tags, or trackers from outside — every file (the page, styles, images, and the seven-language translations) is served from the same site. The page also sets <meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer">. It works fully offline once loaded. The only outbound links are the optional "Learn more" reference links on each reveal, which open in a new tab only when a student chooses to click them.
A note on student work
Any reflection a student types stays in their own browser and appears only on the page they choose to print. Nothing is transmitted or seen by anyone else. Follow your district's policies for any printed artifacts students create.
How this maps to the rules that protect students
- Texas Student Data Privacy Agreement (TX‑NDPA / SDPC)
- Because the activity collects, stores, and transmits no personally identifiable student information and creates no student records off the device, it falls outside the scope that requires a signed Data Privacy Agreement. It is consistent with the Texas DPA's core commitments: no sale of student data, no targeted advertising, and no secondary use of student information. Administered in Texas through the Texas Student Privacy Alliance, part of the national Student Data Privacy Consortium.
- Texas SCOPE Act — Texas Education Code §32.151–32.156
- No operator data collection, targeted advertising, profiling, or monitoring of minors.
- FERPA (20 U.S.C. §1232g)
- No education records are created, stored, or disclosed by these pages.
- COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act)
- No personal information is collected from children under 13 — there is nothing to collect.
- GDPR / UK GDPR
- No personal data is processed, so there is nothing to access, export, rectify, or erase.
- PPRA (Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment)
- No surveys, and no collection of protected information from students.
- CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act)
- Static, self‑contained educational content with no user‑generated communication, chat, or open web browsing.
Accessibility (VPAT‑lite)
- Semantic headings, keyboard‑operable controls, visible focus outlines, and focus moved to each screen's heading on change.
- Questions use native
<fieldset>/<legend>; correct and incorrect answers are shown with text and a color bar, never color alone.
- Live regions announce progress, feedback, and the final score.
- Full right‑to‑left support for Arabic and Urdu; seven languages via a device‑local switcher.
- Reduced‑motion support, responsive down to small phones, and a print stylesheet that outputs only the student's reflection.
Standards & framing
Content is aligned to, not reproduced from, Science, 19 TAC Ch. 112 for grades 3–5. Alignments are a good‑faith, paraphrased mapping — see the correlation page. Clouds are examined by observable features (shape, height, color) as evidence for predicting weather.