The following are links to activities and projects available on Cable in the Classroom members' Web sites. This page contains more than a dozen suggestions for fun, summer learning activities for kids, including visiting museums and historic sites, getting involved in community service, picnics, nature walks, and swimming parties. This site contains star charts, tips for observing the sky, and much more. This site contains ideas to get kids started on their own science projects. Suggestions include finding where a stream's current is fastest, studying the effects of acid rain on soil, and discovering which vegetables make the best color dyes.
Teachers can modify the lesson plan into a student handout.
Projects include interviewing elders in the community to find out what events of the past they witnessed or were a part of, visiting historic neighborhood homes to see how people used to live, and finding out how women made an impact on their community and its history. Teachers can encourage parents to use the activity ideas in their own way to create opportunities for outdoor summer fun and learning activities for their preschoolers. This project includes information and instructions for setting up a backyard weather observation area, a glossary of common weather observation terms, and weather maps. This site can be used to find fun and educational outdoor summer projects for kids. This site contains ideas to get kids started on agricultural projects, studying topics such as soil erosion, how insecticides affect plants, and the differences between the same crops planted in different soils.