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

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

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

Put your kid in charge of her own survey! She'll poll her relatives and friends, collect information, and then create a colorful chart to display her findings.

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

Hone observational skills and introduce the basics of data interpretation with this data gathering activity all about the different colors people wear.

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

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!

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