Celebrate Junior Ranger Day at Home and in Your Own Backyard

Saturday, April 18th, 2020 is Junior Ranger Day and the first day of National Park Week. Unfortunately, we are under a state home orders due to COVID-19 so this is a different sort of Junior Ranger Day and National Park Week that we will be celebrating from our homes and virtually. In this bonus episode I talk with my two little pink junior rangers about being a junior ranger. #nationalparkweek #findyourpark #FindYourVirtualPark

Discussion includes the following:

• Why they like being a junior ranger

• Fun fact about palm trees

• Fun Fact about roadrunners

• Fun Fact about Javelinas

• Responsibilities of a junior ranger

• Favorite junior ranger activities

• Promo for upcoming episode on Night Skies with Tyler Nordgren

• How to celebrate junior ranger day at home

• Junior Ranger joke

• Clip from Shenandoah Trip Report from March 2017 of kids talking about astronomy program and volunteering to save monarch butterflies.

• National Park Creative Exchange collaboration

For Everybody's National Parks Junior Ranger Day Activities go to https://www.everybodysnationalparks.com/juniorranger

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For complete show notes and archive, visit everybodysnationalparks.com.

Celebrate National Parks Week with the National Parks Creative Exchange. Each day from April 18 through April 26, 2020 explore the National Parks with a host of podcasters, bloggers, vloggers and parks enthusiasts. Follow along on their websites, with their podcasts, and on their Instagram accounts.

Everybody’s National Parks

Gaze At The National Parks

Parklandia Podcast

America’s National Parks

Our Wander Filled Life

Park Chasers

The Parks Expert

Moon Travel Guide author Becky Lomax

@headalongwithheart

Resources to #FindYourVirtualPark:

Junior Ranger Day Backyard Activities and "Backyard National Park" Badge

America’s National Parks: Virtual Passport Cancellations

Google Arts and Culture: Hidden Worlds of the National Parks

Google Arts and Culture: Explore more from the National Park Service

Google Earth National Park Virtual Tours

Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy: Kid Crafts that bring the National Parks Home

Happy 150th Birthday Golden Gate Park Virtual Celebration

NPS Celebrates: Games and Challenges

NPS Celebrates: Earth Day 2020 Going Digital

NPS: Junior Ranger Programs and Books

NPS: (More) Junior Ranger Books

NPS: Teacher Resources

Parkasaurus: Tracking #NPSLIVE Events

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