Data Storytelling Examples for Grade 5: Real-Life Applications

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🔢 Data storytelling uses information (data) to tell a story.
• 📊 Graphs and charts help show the data in a clear way.
• 📈 Different types of graphs include bar graphs, pie charts, and line graphs.
• 🌍 Real-life examples include tracking the weather, counting pets in a neighborhood, or showing favorite sports.
• 💡 Data stories have a beginning, middle, and end, just like regular stories.
• 📝 Think about what the data means and why it's important.
• 🎨 Choose the right type of graph to match your data.

Practice Quiz

1. What is data storytelling?
   1. A made-up story with no facts.
   2. Using data to tell a story.
   3. Telling a story without pictures.
   4. Making up numbers.
2. Which of these helps show data clearly?
   1. A long paragraph.
   2. Graphs and charts.
   3. A blurry picture.
   4. A complicated equation.
3. What is an example of a graph?
   1. A book.
   2. A movie.
   3. A bar graph.
   4. A song.
4. Which real-life example uses data storytelling?
   1. Making up a fictional story.
   2. Tracking the weather.
   3. Imagining a fantasy world.
   4. Dreaming about the future.
5. What part of a story does data storytelling resemble?
   1. Only the beginning.
   2. The middle only.
   3. A beginning, middle, and end.
   4. Just the conclusion.
6. What should you think about when telling a data story?
   1. What the data means.
   2. Ignoring the numbers.
   3. Making up new data.
   4. Forgetting the story.
7. What should you consider when choosing a graph?
   1. The colors you like.
   2. The type of data you have.
   3. The funniest graph.
   4. The most complicated graph.