Summer Fun: Make a Moon Phases Calendar

This free download from NASA contains everything you need to create a 2023 Moon Phases Calendar.

Map and Compass Activities ~ Free

Summer is a great time to get outside and practice orienteering skills!

Summer Fun Activity: Build a Parachute

Keep ’em learning this summer: Easy instructions help you build a parachute and explore the forces of air.

Summer Fun Activity: STEM Challenge Cards

22 experiments each in the fields of science and engineering make a perfect summer fun activity to keep ’em learning!

Summer Fun Activity: NASA Optics Educator’s Guide

98-page download with STEM-focused optics activities for K–12.

Summer Fun Activity: Fold & Fly Paper Airplane Designs

Here is a great summer fun activity to keep hands busy: experimenting with paper these free 47 paper airplane designs!

Summer Fun Activity: 507 Mechanical Movements

Interactive site based on book by Henry T. Brown — summer learning fun!

Summer Fun Activity: Exploring the Extreme ~ Free NASA Educator’s Guide

NASA Educator’s Guide covering gravity, jet propulsion, and more!

10 End-of-Summer Ideas

Summer is winding down. Celebrate the end of summer with these 10 educational and fun ideas!

Summer Fun Activity: Learning Synths

Interactive helps students explore the elements of sound in a fun and engaging way.

Activity: Creative Writing with the Random Word Generator

Use a random word generator to keep your children writing every day!

Summer Fun Activity: Make a Balloon Rocket

Make a balloon rocket with these four items!

Summer Fun Activity: Total Solar Eclipse

From our view the moon moves in front of the sun and for a few minutes covers the sun, casting a shadow on earth.

Summer Fun Activity: Make a Wind Chime

Fun, useful, educational, and creative! Resources to make a wind chime!

Summer Fun Activity: Bug Scavenger Hunt

Certainly plenty of bugs to find in the summer! Here are a few ideas for making your bug scavenger hunt.

Summer Fun Activity: Make a Travel Kit

Let your child make his own travel kit and look forward to using it.

Summer Fun Activity: Photographic Wrap-Up

Here is a summer fun activity with purpose: create a photographic summer wrap-up collage!

Summer Fun Activity: Build Paper Boats

Besides being just plain fun, learn a little math, practice arts and crafts skills, and enjoy races and water fun while building paper boats.

Summer Fun Activity: Scavenger Hunt!

Develop skills in a fun way while staying active: Summer is a great time to enjoy a scavenger hunt!

Summer Fun Activity: Roll-A-Challenge

200 different challenges to keep ’em learning this summer: make, use, and do.

Summer Fun Activity: Radar & Weather Together

71-page educational resource and perfect summer fun activity to keep ’em learning!

Summer Fun Activity: Create Giant Bubbles

Create giant bubbles and find out how bubbles get and keep their shape with this summer fun activity from Exploratorium.

Summer Fun Activity: Teddy at the Beach Cupcakes

Wrap up summer with these teddy-at-the-beach cupcake ideas!

Summer Fun Activity: Watermelon Science

Try watermelon science! Summer fun science experiments with watermelons!

Summer Fun Activity: Build a Sunspot Viewer

A way to view the sunspots on the sun without looking directly at the sun.

Summer Fun Activity: Feel the Heat {Free Download}

Ready to feel the heat of summer? Here is a fun summer activity experimenting with heat.

Summer Fun Activity: Make Your Own Mosquito Repellent

Experiment with different ways of making your own mosquito repellent.

Summer Fun Activity: Solar Observation

Free solar observation lesson from NASA covering ultraviolet and infrared radiation.

Summer Fun Activity: Summer Memory Jar

Memory jar can hold special things collected over the entire summer — memories in the making.

Summer Fun Activity: Tying Knots!

When it gets too hot to stay outside, and little hands are looking for something to do, keep them busy tying knots!

Summer Fun Activity: Explore the Ocean

Summer is a great time to explore the ocean by designing your own ocean unit study.

Summer Fun Activity: Create Pure Water With a Solar Still

Enjoy drinking pure water from your own solar still.

Summer Fun Activity: Make a Nature Walk Bracelet

Make a summer nature walk bracelet by attaching small nature treasures to sticky-tape.

Summer Fun: Easy Homemade Ice Cream {Roll the Can}

Use the “roll the can” method of making ice cream while learning the science behind how it works with these easy directions.

Summer Fun Activity: Build a Solar Oven

Educational and fun, building your own solar oven can provide tasty summer treats!

Summer Fun Activity: Sun Prints

If you put something on the paper to block or obstruct the sunlight from reaching that space, you can make patterns.