Evidence
Students begin with what the chart, map, or report actually shows.
Coming Soon
Data Story special investigation
Who Gets What?
A coming classroom kit where students use math, social studies, and leadership judgment to examine opportunity, income, and inequality.
Subject
Social Studies
Grade Band
Grades 7-8
Pilot Issue
Summer 2026
Class Time
45-60 min. sections
What it is
Data, ideas, and real-world insight in one classroom-ready investigation.
Data Story helps students move beyond finding numbers. They read maps, charts, and public reports as evidence, then decide what the evidence can and cannot say about a community problem. Schools get a resource that connects quantitative reasoning, civic learning, discussion, and leadership.
Context
They add the surrounding civic, historical, and community conditions.
Interpretation
They compare patterns, limits, tradeoffs, and missing information.
Judgment
They make a case for an authentic decision using evidence responsibly.
Why teachers will notice
It makes the chart the beginning of a decision, not the end of a worksheet.
It starts in social studies.
The pilot issue gives teachers a civic question students can investigate through population, housing, transportation, health, and income evidence.
It pulls math into meaning.
Students do not calculate in isolation. They compare rates, read maps, interpret distributions, and use quantitative evidence to support a claim.
It develops leadership judgment.
The path is visible on the cover: what the data shows, what context explains, and how students use evidence to support a position.
What schools get
One investigation can serve multiple school priorities.
Data Story should be marketed to schools as more than a subject resource. It is a structured way for students to practice the kind of reasoning schools say they value: numeracy, civic understanding, communication, and responsible judgment.
Leadership
Students practice recommendation-making, tradeoff analysis, public reasoning, and evidence-based communication.
Mathematics
Charts, percentages, rates, neighborhood comparisons, map scales, and distribution patterns become tools for real decisions.
Social Studies
Students investigate civic systems, community resources, inequality, policy choices, and the evidence behind public priorities.
ELA And Discussion
Students read complex informational text, define terms that matter, discuss competing interpretations, and make a written case.
Preview the resource
The pilot issue follows one city from overview to action.
Students encounter department-style reports on population, transportation, health, housing, and community tradeoffs before making a case.
Planned format
Classroom kits will be available when Data Story is complete.
The planned kit model separates reusable classroom materials from consumable student journals and artifacts. Schools will be able to build a durable classroom set, then refresh student-facing materials for each cohort.
Sign up for kit notificationInvestigation Kit
- Student Investigation Magazine
- Teacher Guide
- Shared Brief Packet
- Student Investigation Journal
- Leadership Artifact
- Presentation Resources
For schools
Data Story classroom kit questions
What are Data Story classroom kits?
Data Story classroom kits are coming Chart-Ed investigations that use real-world charts, maps, public reports, and student-facing tasks to help students reason from evidence and make a case.
Which subjects can use Data Story?
The pilot issue begins in social studies, but the classroom value is cross-curricular. Schools can use it for social studies, mathematics, ELA discussion and writing, leadership, and data literacy.
What will schools be notified about?
Signups will receive updates when Data Story classroom kits are complete, including kit availability, preview pages, teacher guide news, pilot updates, and release details.
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Built for teachers
Clear sections, visible report scope, and questions that help students notice what matters.
Built for civic reasoning
Students connect data to tradeoffs, public choices, and the limits of evidence.
Built for discussion
The resource gives students shared evidence before they make or defend a position.
Data Story is in prelaunch preparation. Classroom kit details, pricing, and availability will be finalized after review.
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