
DataTales uses your science standards to create short, high-interest stories paired with real graphs or data tables. Each card helps students read, interpret, and analyze data—building the same literacy and reasoning skills measured on state tests. Perfect for bellringers, warm-ups, or station rotations, DataTales makes science practice engaging, relevant, and easy to teach.
Build Data Skills That Boost State Test Scores—One Story at a Time
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Halloween DataTales Gr. 4-6
Make science spooky and fun with the Halloween DataTales Elementary Set! Each card features a short Halloween-themed science story—like zombie ants, toxic fog, or haunted sound waves—paired with a simple graph or data table. Perfect for grades 4–6, these printables build data and literacy skills while making October lessons delightfully eerie!
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Halloween DataTales Middle School
Make science spooky and fun with the Halloween DataTales Elementary Set! Each card features a short Halloween-themed science story—like zombie ants, toxic fog, or haunted sound waves—paired with a simple graph or data table. Perfect for grades 6-9, these printables build data and literacy skills while making October lessons delightfully eerie!
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Middle School Matter Set
Bring real-world science into your classroom with the DataTales: Middle School Matter Set! Each card features a short, high-interest story—like rust eating a bridge, salt forming mountains, or a plane freezing its fuel—paired with real data or graphs. Students analyze information, interpret evidence, and connect it directly to your science standards while building the literacy and data skills needed for state test success.
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Middle School Forces Set
Bring physics to life with the DataTales: Middle School Forces & Interactions Set! Each card features a real-world story—like rockets launching, trains braking, or satellites orbiting Earth—paired with a graph or data table for students to analyze. These engaging, print-ready activities build data literacy, critical thinking, and test-ready science skills while connecting directly to your standards. Perfect for bellringers, warm-ups, or small-group investigations!
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Middle School Energy Set
Bring energy concepts to life with the DataTales: Middle School Energy Set! Each card features a real-world science story—like record-breaking home runs, frozen airplane fuel, or meteors lighting up the night—paired with a data table or graph for students to analyze. These engaging, print-ready activities build data literacy, critical thinking, and test readiness while connecting directly to your science standards. Perfect for bellringers, warm-ups, or lab extensions!
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Middle School Waves Set
Make waves meaningful with the DataTales: Middle School Waves Set! Each card features a real-world science story—like earthquakes, Wi-Fi interference, or photos beamed from Mars—paired with a graph or data table for students to analyze. These engaging, print-ready lessons help students connect wave behavior to real technology while strengthening data, literacy, and test-ready science skills. Perfect for bellringers, warm-ups, or STEM stations!
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Middle School Molecules to Organisms Set
Turn data into discovery with DataTales: Molecules to Organisms! This set of NGSS-aligned science storytelling cards uses real-world mysteries—like the teen who lived with two artificial hearts and the desert flowers that trick flies—to make data analysis exciting and meaningful. Each card combines a short, engaging story with a graph or data table and critical thinking questions, helping middle school students connect evidence to explanation while building science literacy and data skills.
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Middle School Ecosystems Set
Bring ecosystems to life with DataTales: Middle School Ecosystems! Each NGSS-aligned card tells a fascinating, true science story—like wolves transforming Yellowstone or coral farms rebuilding reefs—paired with real-world data for students to interpret. Perfect for test prep or daily literacy practice, these storytelling cards make data analysis engaging, meaningful, and unforgettable.
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Middle School Heredity and Evolution Set
Bring evolution and genetics to life with DataTales: Middle School Heredity and Evolution! Each NGSS-aligned card tells a fascinating, real-world science story—like moths that changed color during the Industrial Revolution and goats engineered to spin spider silk—paired with authentic data for students to analyze. Perfect for science literacy and test prep, these storytelling cards help students connect evidence, data, and explanation while exploring mutations, inheritance, natural selection, and the technologies shaping modern genetics.
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Middle School Earth in Space Set
Explore the universe with DataTales: Middle School Earth in Space! Each NGSS-aligned storytelling card combines a real-world science mystery—like the day the Sun disappeared during a total eclipse or the comet that refused to leave our solar system—with authentic data and critical-thinking questions. Students analyze graphs, interpret patterns, and connect evidence to explanation as they explore gravity, motion, eclipses, scale, and the vast history of Earth and space.
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Middle School Earth Systems Set
Explore how our planet constantly changes with DataTales: Middle School Earth Systems! Each NGSS-aligned card turns real-world Earth science stories—like the volcano that built an island, the storm that circled the globe, and the current that keeps Europe warm—into data-driven investigations. Students read engaging short stories, analyze authentic graphs, and make evidence-based explanations about Earth’s materials, energy flow, and dynamic systems that shape our world.
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Middle School Human Impact Set
Explore how humans shape the planet with DataTales: Middle School Human Impact! Each NGSS-aligned storytelling card turns real-world environmental challenges—like rivers catching fire, shrinking lakes, and melting glaciers—into data-driven investigations. Students analyze authentic graphs, interpret evidence, and build scientific explanations about natural resources, pollution, population growth, and climate change while discovering how science and technology can help restore balance to Earth’s systems.
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5th Grade Data & Graph Set
Make science storytelling come alive with DataTales: 5th Grade Science Data & Graph Storytelling Cards! Each NGSS-aligned card pairs a fascinating true science story—like exploding soda cans, shadow-tracking experiments, and trees that gained 150 pounds—with real data for students to analyze. By reading, graphing, and interpreting evidence, students practice science literacy and data skills while connecting directly to grade 5 standards in physical, life, and Earth science. Perfect for bell ringers, weekly literacy, or test prep, these ready-to-use cards turn data into discovery.