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Screen-free data activities for curious kids

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Stories from the field

Abbu! This looks like the Dome of a Mosque
Word Trees

Abbu! This looks like the Dome of a Mosque

How a word tree visualization sparked a conversation about data, architecture, and wonder with a 4-year-old.

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From Chocolates to Bar Graphs
Bar Graphs

From Chocolates to Bar Graphs

When your child threatens to graph your late-night chocolate habit and send it to your team — that's data literacy in action.

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Paratha Patterns & Scatter Plots
Scatter Plots

Paratha Patterns & Scatter Plots

A morning paratha becomes a lesson in scatter plots, patterns, and the poetry of everyday data.

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Power of DataViz in Board Games
Board Games

Power of DataViz in Board Games

What if the board game you played last weekend was secretly teaching your child about data? Spoiler: it was.

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The Drought is Walking | Heatmaps for Kids
Heatmaps

The Drought is Walking | Heatmaps for Kids

Using Gulzar's poetry and the science of heatmaps to help children see climate data in a new light.

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Baby Shark dododo | Sankey Diagram
Sankey Diagrams

Baby Shark dododo | Sankey Diagram

If you've heard Baby Shark a hundred times, here's how to turn it into a Sankey diagram your child will love.

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Maps & Cherry Blossoms
Maps

Maps & Cherry Blossoms

It was the year 2008 and I had just moved to Seattle, the city of rain and confusing roads — and cherry blossoms that taught me about maps.

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Chocolates, Vowels and Stacked Bar Graphs
Stacked Bar Graphs

Chocolates, Vowels and Stacked Bar Graphs

My kids can hear the sound of unwrapping chocolate from miles away — and that superpower became a stacked bar graph lesson.

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Letter Patterns in Days of the Week
Letter Patterns

Letter Patterns in Days of the Week

Tamaam safhey kitaabOn ke fadfadaney lagey — and in those fluttering pages, we found letter patterns hiding in plain sight.

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Hands-on activities

Chocolate Bar Graph

Count your candy and build a bar graph on paper. Works with any collection of objects.

Ages 5+15 min

Family Scatter Plot

Plot family members by height and age on a hand-drawn grid. Spot the pattern!

Ages 7+20 min

Word Tree from a Story

Pick a favourite book. Find all the words that follow 'the' and branch them out like a tree.

Ages 8+30 min

Heatmap of Your Week

Draw a 7×24 grid and colour in when you feel most energetic. Discover your personal heatmap.

Ages 9+Ongoing

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