Junior Ranger

Ready to plan your adventure? Download the Junior Ranger Park Explorer Booklet and earn your next Junior Ranger Badge.

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.

EXPLORE the natural cycle of fire in parks.

LEARN what wildland firefighters use to fight fires.

PROTECT your home and parks from wildfires

Download the booklet

Listen carefully. Learn about the science of sound. Discover why it is important to parks. Download the booklet

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.

Explore fish and fishing through a Junior Ranger activity book dedicated to things that swim.

NASA and the National Park Service made this booklet of fun activities. The free, printable booklet has math puzzles, thought questions, spot the difference pictures, matching puzzles, scrambled words and anagrams. Take the pledge to become a Spaceflight Explorer Junior Ranger, and put your name on the certificate.

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!

The Junior Ranger motto is recited by children around the country; each taking an oath of their own to protect parks, continue to learn about parks, and share their own ranger story with friends and family. Download and complete the Jr. Ranger Underwater Explorer Guide and join the National Park Service "family" as a Junior Ranger.

EXPLORE the ways that paleontologists work, and the methods and tools they use to understand ancient life.

LEARN about Earth's history, ancient plants and animals, and changes to past climate and environments.

PROTECT our national parks, including fossils and the rocks in which they are found.

Download the Junior Paleontologist Activity Booklet here

The Network to Freedom’s mission is to honor, preserve and promote the history of resistance to enslavement through escape and flight. Underground Railroad History continues to inspire people worldwide. Through its mission, the Network to Freedom advances the idea that all human beings embrace the right to self-determination and freedom from oppression. The program is a catalyst for innovation and partnerships that share the diverse legacy of the Underground Railroad across generations.

The Eclipse Explorer Junior Ranger program is a partnership between the National Park Service and The Planetary Society. Full of interactive activities, the activity booklet helps kids and the young at heart connect with the science and stories of this awesome astronomical event and understand how to view the eclipse safely.