If your school is within a one-hour driving radius of the Park Education Center or located in a Gateway Community just outside the park, you may be able to arrange to have an education ranger come to your classroom. For classroom programs as well as in-park programs, we have a class size policy and will work with one class (up to 30 students) at a time but are happy to do multiple programs to accommodate more than one class. We are, however, unable to do assemblies.

Programs are limited to a single topic related to curriculum the students have been or will be studying. Current program topics include:

National Park Service: Mission, History, or Careers
Geology of Mount Rainier: includes Glaciers or Volcanic Processes & Hazards
Life Zones Ecology: includes plant and animal adaptions
Leave No Trace

To arrange a program in your classroom, call the park Education Office at (360) 569-6039 at least one month in advance of your desired program date; please have alternate dates available as well.

We hope to expand the travel radius in the future as staffing allows.