Tips for Teaching with Ranger Rick
Get off to a good start with these general teaching tips for using Ranger Rick in an educational setting.

• Tips for Teachers

Ranger Rick Activities
Look here for a wide variety of ideas to strengthen reading skills, enhance comprehension, and explore the topics in the magazine in greater depth.

• Activities

Student Pages
Each of the pages below is ready to copy and distribute to students.

• First Impressions Scavenger Hunt
  Students new to Ranger Rick get acquainted with the magazine through a series of questions.
  
  
  
• Look Closer Scavenger Hunt
  Students explore an issue of Ranger Rick with questions that guide them to look closely and read carefully.
  
  
• Question Everything
  Students list comprehension questions and open-ended wonderings as they read a Ranger Rick story.
  
  
• Venn Diagram
  Students compare and contrast animals, places, or other topics featured in Ranger Rick with this graphic organizer.
  
  
• Basic Concept Map
  Students organize the key information from a Ranger Rick story by filling in the bubbles on this "map."
  
  
• Complex Concept Map
  Students organize key information and the relationships between concepts in a Ranger Rick story by filling in the bubbles on this "map."
  
  
• A Day in the Life
  Students write about a day in the life of a featured animal.
  
  
• Postcards
  Students compose a postcard to a featured animal and imagine a reply.
  
  
• Creature Conversations
  Students invent a conversation between two animals or plants featured in Ranger Rick.

National Education Standards
Ranger Rick magazine content and corresponding educational activities can help you meet a number of national education standards. This chart lists standards regularly addressed by Ranger Rick articles and activities.

• Education Standards