EXPLORER MAGAZINES

SCOUT GRADE

What cheetahs need (learn what cheetahs need to survive) – On the move (many animals go on long trips, find out how and why they move) – Walking with camels (take awalk with an explorer, and see how camels help him on his trip)

What changes in Fall? (read about what changes in Fall) – Is it a bird? (find out what body parts all birds share) – Clouds (not all clouds are the same, find out how they are alike and different)

Dinosaurs (discover how some dinosaurs ate meat and other dinosaurs ate plants) – Volcanoes (learn about volcanoes) – A wetland (accompany an explorer as she explains what a wetland is)

Chameleons (learn how chameleons use their body parts) – Making music (explore some music and sound) – Let it glow (find out why some ocean animals light up)

Puffin parents (see how puffins raise their chicks) – A giant cactus (find about the animals that depend on a cactus) – Mirrors (read about how light bounces to make a reflection)

Mud is cool (how animals use mud to keep cool) – A butterfly is born (how this insect grows from egg to butterfly) – We need Earth (how Earth provides the things we need to live)

Saving sloths (how people are helping orphan sloths) – The problem with plastic (single-use plastics and our oceans) – Super sunflowers (growing tall sunflowers)

Rainforest (plants and animals in a rainforest) – Where food grows (where our food plants grow) – A rare rhino (a baby rhino grows up)

Stone giants (find out about the mysterious stone statues on Easter Island) – Whale food (read about the tiny food giant humpback whales eat) – The best beak (discover why similar birds have different shaped beaks)

Making crayons (see what steps it takes to make crayons) – P is for Park (find out what lives in Gorongosa National Park in Africa) – Along came a polar bear (see how a photographer soved a problem when he lost his camera)

I spy black bears (join scientist Rae Wynn Grant as she studies black bears) – Snowman weather (discover new words that contain the word “snow”) – Manatees (learn about these lovable, slow moving marine mammals from scientist Jamal Galvez)

On the move (find out how plant seeds move from one place to another) – Dog on wheels (read about Norman, the bicycling dog) – Nice to greet you (see how people around the world greet each other)

Meet a river otter (playful river otters) – Hot rocks (lava is liqud and rock is solid) – Great gifts for Earth (reduce trash for Earth Day)

Caring for wombats (how people care for homeless wombats)  – Village in the sky (what it is like to live high in the mountains?) – Life in a box (how many living things are in one small space?)

Animal groups (find out reasons why some animals live in groups) – Off to school (see how children around the world go to school) – Maps of the world (view how different maps can show us the world)

Spiders at work (see how spiders catch food) – Making pasta (learn the steps to make stuffed pasta) – Hiding in corals (find animals that live and hide among corals)

Seasons change (follow an arctic fox as its fur changes with the seasons) – Dancing dragons (see how people celebrate Chinese New Year) – Flamingo Bob (meet Flaming Bob, a wildlife ambassador)

Dragonflies (learn more about dragonflies) – Water all around (see how water moves and changes forms) – Too many snails (discover how farmers solved a problem)

Here comes the sun (see how the sun warms Earth) – Plant for the planet (meet Felix, who wants to plant trees around the world) – Dig (learn from an explorer who digs)

PIONEER GRADE

Extreme animals (discover how some animals go to extremes to survive) – Amazon adventure (journey into the rainforest with a teen explorer) – Wedges (learn about the wedge and how we use this simple machine)

Birds (read an opinion piece abut why we should care for birds) – My long walk (journey with an explorer as he follows in the footsteps of our ancestors) – Animal migration (discover how and why animals migrate)

Extreme plants (read about some plants that have extreme adaptations) – Lava domes (join three explorers as they investigate a volcanic landscape) – Screws (learn about the screw and how we use this simple machine)

WOMEN IN SCIENCE: Becoming Jane (find out what Jane Goodall discovered about chimpanzees) – Weaving words (see how a scientist researches languages in Peru) – Frozen: South Pole Challenge (join a young exploreer on her journey to the South Pole)

Lionfish (lionfish are an invasive species, can scietists stop them?) – Wheel and axl (learn about the wheel and axl and how we use this simple machine) – Abraham Lincoln (discover the importance of primary resources and how they are preserved)

Parrots (how the pet trade endangers wild parrots) – Pulley power (how pulleys make work easier) – Food for the future (saving plant seeds to save our future food supply)

Plastic (our plastic trash problem) – The scoop on poop (what scientists learn from animal poop) – New species (the discovery of new species)

Rhino rescue (saving the rare Sumatran rhino) – Hot and cold (what it means to be “cold-blooded”) – Ocean plastics (a scientist “profiles” plastic pollution)

GALÁPAGOS: Islands born of fire (how these islands formed) – Home only here (their plants and animals) – Darwin (the naturalist Charles Darwin and his connection to the islands) – Unwanted guests (living things that don’t belong here) – Land of the giants (the giant tortoise)

Everest (join the geographer Alex Tait on an expedition to Everest) – The Pearl (learn how an author uses primary sources to write an attempted escape by slaves from Washington, DC) – Glaciers (glaciologist, M Jackson is studying how climate change is affecting Earth’s glaciers)

WOMEN IN SCIENCE: To catch a thief (biologist Kim Williams is protecting sea turtles) – Gorongosa’s elephants (Ecologist Dominique Goncalves is focused on elephant conservation in Mozambique) – Deep dive (Beverly Goodman explores how humans and nature interact on coastlines)

Ocean supercrop (learn about growing seaweed for food) – Whale sharks (is tourism good for whale sharks?) – Snapshot of space (join scientists as they explore the solar system)

Green careers (is a green career right for you?) – Digging up history (how scientist recreate Washington’s gardens) – Out of the water, into the lab (what is making sharks sick?)

WETLANDS: Balance for the bogs (Irish peat bogs are important to people and the environment)  – Flying flowers of Rwanda (a scientist assesses the health of a wetland) – Protecting the marsh (local people are protecting their wetland home) – About mangroves (protection of the Brazilian coast)

Dragonfly (discover how a dragonfly transforms itself) – Spinosaurus (follow a scientist’s quest to reveal the secrets of this mysterious dinosaur) – Trash into treasure (meet Arthur Huang, architect, engineer, and explorer, who has bold plans for trash)

Make the world a better place! (creating postive change in our world comes in all shapes and sizes) – Tasmanian devils (will the Tasmanian devil win its fight against a mysterious disease?) – Artificial reefs (what looks like a natural coral reef really isn’t)

WOMEN IN SCIENCE: Waiting to be discovered (Analyn Cabras in her search for beetles in the Philipinnes) – Seeking solutions (Marisa Cuevas works on solving water pollution) – Protector of the Amazon (Nemonte Nenquimo, leader of the Waorani nation, is protecting the Amazon)

Platypus (this egg-laying mammal is full of surprises) – Newfoundland wildlife (tour with the explorer Justine Ammendolia) – Iguazú Falls (travel to South America to experience one of the natural wonders of the world)

Curing what ails you (read about how plants and humans use plants as medicine) – Nature’s mysteries (follow scientists as they try to solve mysteries in nature) – Lake tour (take a tour of Earth’s unusual lakes)