Ms. Debbie Coyle, 5th grade teacher at Liberty Magnet School, and Sam Maslow
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Sam Maslow's
National Parks
Junior Ranger Site
Sam Maslow has over 300 Junior Ranger badges, patches, and pins.
Sam Maslow lectured on the Junior Ranger program to the 5th grade classes at Liberty Magent School, Sebastian, Florida, in Jan. 2008.
On his Alaska trip in 2007, Sam Maslow took a tour boat to Holgate Glacier, in Kenai Fjords National Park.
Lectures

In late August 2007, an article about me appeared in
Science Studies Weekly Challenger, a student
newspaper for fifth graders.  Ms. Debbie Coyle's fifth
grade class at Liberty Magnet School, in Sebastian,
Florida, read the article and asked me to come down
to speak to them.  

In January 2008, I went down to Florida and spoke
not only to Ms. Coyle's class but also to the other
three fifth grade classes at the school.  I brought
with me two banners with some of my Junior Ranger
badges and patches on them to show the students.  
In advance of my lectures, I created a special Junior
Ranger booklet for the students to complete before
the day of my speaking.  In each class, I reviewed
the booklet with the students and awarded them all
Junior Ranger badges.  

I also distributed to the students a folder comprised
of several park site Junior Ranger booklets and
brochures and other information about the National
Park Service.  This way they had the opportunity to
earn more badges by mailing in the booklets to the
parks, who would mail back the badges.

While I was in Florida, I visited Everglades National
Park, Big Cypress National Preserve, and Biscayne
National Park.

During the 2008-09 school year, I lectured to fifth
grade students in New York City, in Brooklyn and
Manhattan.  I was also invited by Ms. Debra Jones,
the fifth grade teacher at New Lebanon Dixie Middle
School in Ohio to lecture to her five classes, which I
did in January 2009.  New Lebanon is near Dayton
so I toured the Dayton Aviation Heritage National
Historical Park and also saw the U.S. Air Force
Museum, which has a fascinating collection of the Air
Force One airplanes used by the presidents.

On this page you can see some photos of my talks
to the students.  Click on each photo to see it larger.
Sam Maslow and Toni McCart, 5th grade teacher, Liberty Magnet School
Pete Anderson, 5th grade teacher, Liberty Magnet School, and Sam Maslow
Sam Maslow and Todd Jones, 5th grade teacher, Liberty Magnet School
Sam Maslow with Theresa Wagner, Asst. Principal, and Dale Klaus, principal, Liberty Magnet School
January 2009 lectures at Dixie Middle School, New Lebanon, Ohio
January 2009 lectures at Dixie Middle School, New Lebanon, Ohio
January 2008 lectures at Liberty Magnet School, Sebastian, Florida