There are 21 national parks in the United States where you can see at least part of the solar eclipse on Monday, and the parks service has partnered with the Planetary Society and Bill Nye to teach kids all about it with a special Eclipse Explorer Junior Ranger experience.
Kids who visit parks in the path of the eclipse can get an educational booklet about the eclipse and complete the activities to earn an eclipse badge.
But the booklet is available online, too (this is a link to the PDF), and has some great information in it about why eclipses happen, the different kinds of eclipses and how to view them safely.
There are also activities such as thinking about how what your senses experience might change during an eclipse, calculating how old kids will be for the next eclipse and drawing an eclipse petroglyph, among other things.
This would be fun for kids outside of the parks to complete as well and to connect what they’re learning about eclipses to their own lives.
Are you traveling to see the eclipse? I’d love to hear about your plans!
[Photo: Planetary Society.]
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