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

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

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!

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

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

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

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

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

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

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

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

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

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