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and history, as well as park protection strategies. The program is either free or available for a small fee. At the comple- tion of the booklet, your child can earn a special certifi cate and/or an offi cial junior ranger badge unique to that park.
ous your children can delve into this summer? Consider sending them to spy camp while you explore our nation’s capital. The Spy Museum (
www.spymuseum.org) in Washington, DC, offers a weeklong day camp ex- ploring the science of spy craft, includ- ing training missions, development of disguises, making and breaking codes, escape and evasion strategies and creating spy gadgets. This camp is limited to kids ages 10 to 13 years. Cost for the fi ve-day camp is $445.
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observatories throughout the U.S. can provide great single-day trips to enable your family to learn more about stars and the universe. Arizona is well known for clear skies that draw amateur and professional astronomers alike. The Lowell
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Gaze at the Stars Planetariums and
Engage in Espionage Looking for something adventur-
Observatory (
www.lowell.edu) is a private, nonprofi t research institution in Flagstaff. Family day visits can include guided tours featuring the Alvan Clark refractor and the Pluto Discovery Tele- scope, solar viewing, multimedia shows and nighttime viewing of planets, the moon and star clusters. Admission is $12 for adults and $6 for children ages 5 to 17. For school-age kids, weeklong day camps focus on the application of science, technology, engineering, art and math to astrology while teaching how to use telescopes to collect, analyze and draw conclusions from data. The cost of kids’ camp is $200. Arizona has many other opportuni-
ties for stargazing, including the Atmospheric Research Observatory at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff (
www.nau.edu/observatory), with Friday and Saturday public viewings; the Flandrau Science Center and Plan- etarium at the University of Arizona
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