About | ThinkTales

How did it start?

For over four years, we have both been part of a vibrant online teacher community (LCoRPs), where the foundations of Science through Storytelling were shaped, debated, tested, and refined.

Deeptha Vivekanand

Over the years, Deeptha Vivekanand has crafted and performed several science stories, including the story of C. V. Raman and the discovery of light scattering — and co-created the CBSE course Storytelling as Pedagogy.

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Neeraja Raghavan

Dr Raghavan has led multiple webinars and workshops on Teaching Science as a Way of Thinking, including an intensive course (with the same name) for middle-school teachers of a leading school in Bengaluru.

Workshops inspire, but inspiration alone doesn’t sustain change.

A teacher needs access to innovative resources that enable teaching science as a way of thinking.

But the typically packed calendar of a teacher gives little room for the intense reading and iterative crafting that the development of such resources demands.

Teachers need ready-to-use, classroom-tested resources that embody this pedagogy.

Between 2020 and 2023, a group of educators from LCoRPs met regularly to do the hard work:

Mapping middle-school science curricula across boards

For example, Galileo’s challenge to geocentrism was mapped to Grade 5 topics like Day and Night and Movement of the Earth.

The next question was not what to teach, but how to carry this story into the classroom, which led us to explore several storytelling formats.

Oral storytelling

Story

Walks

Readers’ Theatre

Videos

But the one that stood out was...

Storycards!

What you have to do is get into the heart. And how do you get into the heart? Through stories.”
Jane Goodall

How ThinkTales Was Built

Creating high-quality Story Cards is demanding work.

Thoughtful topic selection

Deep research across multiple sources

Careful simplification without loss of rigour

Pedagogical alignment with classroom realities

In 2024, a leading school in Bengaluru commissioned Dr Raghavan to run a six-month course on Teaching Science as a Way of Thinking. Twelve teachers were guided through the complete process of creating story-based teaching resources.

The result was:

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15 complete sets of Story Cards (across science topics) were created by the teachers.

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Each set was peer-reviewed and academically vetted.

Many of these were successfully tried out in their classrooms.

Children as well as teachers enjoyed the process of using the story cards, and many asked for more.

Now it became clear: while many educators want to teach this way, they don’t have the time or support to build these resources from scratch.
ThinkTales story cards came into existence to bridge that gap.

How did it start?

Deeptha Vivekanand

Neeraja Raghavan

Workshops inspire, but inspiration alone doesn’t sustain change.

Between 2020 and 2023, a group of educators from LCoRPs met regularly to do the hard work:

For example, Galileo’s challenge to geocentrism was mapped to Grade 5 topics like Day and Night and Movement of the Earth.

The next question was not what to teach, but how to carry this story into the classroom, which led us to explore several storytelling formats.

But the one that stood out was...

Storycards!

What you have to do is get into the heart. And how do you get into the heart? Through stories.”
Jane Goodall

How ThinkTales Was Built

The result was:

Children as well as teachers enjoyed the process of using the story cards, and many asked for more.

Now it became clear: while many educators want to teach this way, they don’t have the time or support to build these resources from scratch.
ThinkTales story cards came into existence to bridge that gap.

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How did it start?

Deeptha Vivekanand

Neeraja Raghavan

Workshops inspire, but inspiration alone doesn’t sustain change.

Between 2020 and 2023, a group of educators from LCoRPs met regularly to do the hard work:

For example, Galileo’s challenge to geocentrism was mapped to Grade 5 topics like Day and Night and Movement of the Earth. The next question was not what to teach, but how to carry this story into the classroom, which led us to explore several storytelling formats.

But the one that stood out was...

Storycards!

What you have to do is get into the heart. And how do you get into the heart? Through stories.” Jane Goodall

How ThinkTales Was Built

The result was:​

Children as well as teachers enjoyed the process of using the story cards, and many asked for more.

Now it became clear: while many educators want to teach this way, they don’t have the time or support to build these resources from scratch. ThinkTales story cards came into existence to bridge that gap.

For example, Galileo’s challenge to geocentrism was mapped to Grade 5 topics like Day and Night and Movement of the Earth.

The next question was not what to teach, but how to carry this story into the classroom, which led us to explore several storytelling formats.

What you have to do is get into the heart. And how do you get into the heart? Through stories.”
Jane Goodall

The result was:

Now it became clear: while many educators want to teach this way, they don’t have the time or support to build these resources from scratch.
ThinkTales story cards came into existence to bridge that gap.