Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.

Give your smart second grader a rich challenge with this activity that combines graphing practice with money!

Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

When you're studying the Mayflower, numbers can be an important part of the history...and a great chance to practice elementary math!