Have some summer fun traveling, reading, touring, exploring, and generally making good use of the summer sun!
- Celebrate the 4th of July!
- Have a summer scavenger hunt or a bug scavenger hunt.
- Explore with map and compass.
- Travel the Oregon Trail (July 4).
- Make a wind chime!
- Tackle these STEM challenges!
- Become a Junior Secret Service Agent (July 5).
- Tie some knots.
- Build a parachute.
- Learn about mechanical movements (about 507 of them…).
- Read along with E.B. White (July 11).
- Draw something.
- Write something.
- Discover wireless telegraphy with Marconi (July 13).
- Explore synthesizers with a virtual musical playground.
- Enjoy these poems (and associated activities) from our Online Poetry Anthology:
“Fog” by Carl Sandburg
“The Lamb” by William Blake
“Trees” by Joyce Kilmer - Explore the compass with Wrong-Way Corrigan (July 17).
- Learn more about an artist (free notebooking pages download).
- Make a balloon rocket.
- Land on the moon with Apollo 11 (July 20).
- Explore light, color, and optics with this free NASA Educator Guide!
- Practice using spoonerisms (July 22).
- Practice bike safety.
- Ride the rails with the first steam locomotive (July 25).
- Blow some bubbles.
- Fold and fly an airplane.
- Learn more about diabetes (July 27).
- Build and float your own paper boats!
- Download these free eBooks {and go-alongs!}:
- Free eBook on the Reconstruction
- The Outdoor Handy Book {Free eBook}
- Burgess Bird Book {Free eBook}
- The Original Boxcar Children {Free eBook}
- The Sea Shore {Free eBook}
- The Life Savers {Free eBook}
- Stories of Luther Burbank and His Plant School {Free eBook}
- The Children’s Book of Birds {Free eBook}
- Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft {Free eBook}
- A-B-C of Electricity {Free eBook}
- Observe the sun — safely!
- Make use of these great finds:
- Create a summer memory jar to memorialize your summer fun.
Enjoy our Things to Do each month:
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