The National Park Service is mounting an effort targeted at fourth graders to get them to visit our national parks. Reporter Dan Stork explains how area children can take advantage of the free program—Every Kid in a Park—to visit Joshua Tree National Park or hundreds of other national parks…
With Joshua Tree National Park next door, every child in the Morongo Basin should have the opportunity to take advantage of it. Focusing on fourth graders, the National Park Service is promoting “Every Kid in a Park,” with an Internet-based program. Go online at everykidinapark.gov, and click on “How It Works.” Fourth-graders will be prompted to fill out an individual adventure diary, print out a National Parks pass, which has a unique, nontransferable bar code, and then to plan a trip. Teachers, or any youth leader such as a camp director, or a home-school, after-school, or a religious group leader, who engages fourth-graders, can use the web site to generate passes for an entire class or group. Passes can be used as often as you like through August 30, 2016.
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE “EVERY KID IN A PARK” PROGRAM
