Family Portrait


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Have your child get to know members of your family by collecting information and picturing it on a graph. What you'll need Paper Pencil Crayons What to do 1. Choose an inherited family characteristic: hair colors, for example. 2. Count how many people in the family have the different hair colors. 3. Make a graph. For example, if 5 people have brown hair, draw 5 heads side by side to show these five people. Do the same for the other hair colors. Graphs help everyone, including adults, understand information at a glance. By looking at the lengths of the lines of heads, your child can quickly see which hair color, for example, is most common.