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For Kids

for kids includes:

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Click on the flashing NPS arrowhead to view the Junior Ranger Gazette newsletter and to learn about the Junior Ranger Program.

The National Park Junior Ranger Motto is "Explore, Learn, Protect." Now children can be Junior Rangers and learn about the program even if they are not able to visit a national park.

Check out the Children's Story Time program September 22-24, 2009.

 
Do you like to dig in the dirt? Find things that are lost? Put pieces together? Figure out stories from clues? Learn about the past? These are all things archeologists do—maybe you're one, too! Learn about the NPS Archeology Program: Archeology for Kids.
 
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Did You Know?
When you say "going down the valley" you are actually traveling north in the Shenandoah Valley and that when you are traveling south, you are "going up the valley?" The reason for this expression is because the Shenandoah River flows north, so downstream is in that compass direction.

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Last Updated: August 27, 2009 at 17:04 EST