National Park Service Junior Ranger Books
Programs and special events offer junior ranger books to engage visitors at an early age. Check out these special interest books that you can download and do at home or at your favorite park.
The activity booklets will remain available for download, along with a virtual badge you can award at home.
With this book in your hands, you are ready to become a Railroad Explorer. This book will teach you about the transcontinental railroad, which helped link the United States from coast to coast. We hope you will accept the challenge—Follow these steps to be a Junior Ranger Railroad Explorer.
- Complete this book—Do your best to finish as much as you can.
- Check your work—Show a ranger, a teacher, or another adult what you completed.
- Become a Railroad Explorer—When you are done, fill out the pledge in the back of this book.
Listen Up! You can become a Junior Ranger Sounds Explorer.
Follow Lucy the Listening Owl on a journey to:
- Explore sounds you hear in parks.
- Learn the science of sound and why sound is important to parks.
- Protect sounds you hear in parks and at home.
The National Park Service has a new Junior Ranger booklet co-designed in partnership with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The project is part of a multi-agency effort to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing on July 20, 2019. The Spaceflight Explorer Jr. Ranger book is available at participating national parks and through NASA.
Go to the NASA Website. Complete the activities while you learn about the Moon, space vehicles that will take humans to the Moon and to Mars, and national parks across the United States. The Spaceflight Explorer Jr. Ranger book is also a free, printable booklet with math puzzles, thought questions, spot the difference pictures, matching puzzles, scrambled words and anagrams. Take the pledge to become a Spaceflight Explorer Junior Ranger, make your own badge, and put your name on the certificate.
No special badges or patches have been created for use with this booklet. A “badge” has been printed on the inside back cover of the booklet for kids who access the booklet online to cut out and create their own reward for completing the activities.
Get reeled into fishing with the new Junior Ranger Let’s Go Fishing! Booklet.
We are looking for young speleologists to become junior rangers. In the Junior Cave Scientist activity book, you will explore the fascinating and fragile underground world of caves, learn about the National Park System, and complete fun educational activities. Participants who complete the booklet will earn a badge, a certificate, and the title of Junior Cave Scientist.
The National Park Service has developed a Junior Ranger Night Explorer program, encouraging young park visitors to explore the starry side of their national parks.
Children can learn how to find the North Star, write their own creative mythology about the constellations, track the phases of the moon, learn about stars and galaxies, and use all their senses to explore the night environment at a national park.
Wondering what archeology is? Or what archeologists do? Are you curious about what people in the past did, or what they were like? Learn all about it in the Junior Archeologist activity booklet!
From fresh water fish to salt water sea turtles there is so much more to discover below the water line.
Learn about ancient life. Complete fun activities. Explore some of the national parks that offer you a look into the prehistoric.
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Programs and special events offer junior ranger books to engage visitors at an early age. Check out these special interest books that you can download and do at home or at your favorite park.
The activity booklets will remain available for download, along with a virtual badge you can award at home.
With this book in your hands, you are ready to become a Railroad Explorer. This book will teach you about the transcontinental railroad, which helped link the United States from coast to coast. We hope you will accept the challenge—Follow these steps to be a Junior Ranger Railroad Explorer.
- Complete this book—Do your best to finish as much as you can.
- Check your work—Show a ranger, a teacher, or another adult what you completed.
- Become a Railroad Explorer—When you are done, fill out the pledge in the back of this book.
Listen Up! You can become a Junior Ranger Sounds Explorer.
Follow Lucy the Listening Owl on a journey to:
- Explore sounds you hear in parks.
- Learn the science of sound and why sound is important to parks.
- Protect sounds you hear in parks and at home.
The National Park Service has a new Junior Ranger booklet co-designed in partnership with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The project is part of a multi-agency effort to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing on July 20, 2019. The Spaceflight Explorer Jr. Ranger book is available at participating national parks and through NASA.
Go to the NASA Website. Complete the activities while you learn about the Moon, space vehicles that will take humans to the Moon and to Mars, and national parks across the United States. The Spaceflight Explorer Jr. Ranger book is also a free, printable booklet with math puzzles, thought questions, spot the difference pictures, matching puzzles, scrambled words and anagrams. Take the pledge to become a Spaceflight Explorer Junior Ranger, make your own badge, and put your name on the certificate.
No special badges or patches have been created for use with this booklet. A “badge” has been printed on the inside back cover of the booklet for kids who access the booklet online to cut out and create their own reward for completing the activities.
Get reeled into fishing with the new Junior Ranger Let’s Go Fishing! Booklet.
We are looking for young speleologists to become junior rangers. In the Junior Cave Scientist activity book, you will explore the fascinating and fragile underground world of caves, learn about the National Park System, and complete fun educational activities. Participants who complete the booklet will earn a badge, a certificate, and the title of Junior Cave Scientist.
The National Park Service has developed a Junior Ranger Night Explorer program, encouraging young park visitors to explore the starry side of their national parks.
Children can learn how to find the North Star, write their own creative mythology about the constellations, track the phases of the moon, learn about stars and galaxies, and use all their senses to explore the night environment at a national park.
Wondering what archeology is? Or what archeologists do? Are you curious about what people in the past did, or what they were like? Learn all about it in the Junior Archeologist activity booklet!
From fresh water fish to salt water sea turtles there is so much more to discover below the water line.
Learn about ancient life. Complete fun activities. Explore some of the national parks that offer you a look into the prehistoric.
What are you looking for?
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Website URL
Type of Resource
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