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.

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

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.

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!

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

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