❀ We are OPEN for Easter, Sunday, March 31, 2024 ❀ Read More
The Montshire will be open for regular hours (10am - 5pm) on Sunday, March 31, 2024. ❁ ❀ ✿
Gardens are incredible learning landscapes—especially for children. Gardening encourages the development of critical early learning skills in young children. For older students, gardens provide dynamic learning environments in which to explore math, science, history, and culture. This presentation invites you to reimagine traditional gardens as powerful living classrooms.
Bio: Lara Litchfield-Kimber earned her BA from Amherst College and her MS from Cornell University. Formally trained in the agricultural sciences as a plant pathologist, Lara left research and teaching to become an entrepreneur, starting Fertile Minds, Inc., an informal science education group in Ithaca, NY, that developed children’s gardens to teach math and science. She joined the science center field in 2004 at Ithaca’s Sciencenter and later served as the executive director of the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum in Poughkeepsie, NY, for nine years before coming to the Upper Valley in January 2022 to assume the role of executive director of the Montshire Museum of Science.
View Details10:00 AM
Audience: Families, Homeschoolers
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details6:00 PM
Catch the Vermont premiere of a provocative documentary that sheds light on early childhood education. Hear powerful stories and learn stunning truths about the human capacity for early intelligence and the potential for quality early care and education to
Audience: Adults
Location: Community Room
Cost: Free
View Event Details11:00 AM
Learn to build a glider that soars through the air!
Audience: Families
Location: Science Discovery Lab
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details3:00 PM
An activity for adults and children 9 years of age and older.
Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens
Location: Science Discovery Lab
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details11:00 AM
Learn how to mix up colors!
Audience: Families
Location: Science Discovery Lab
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details3:00 PM
Use mirrors to investigate reflection and symmetry.
Audience: Families
Location: Science Discovery Lab
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details9:00 AM
Based on our popular Microscope loan program for upper grades, Montshire has developed a two-week portable Microscope Unit that will bring an entire set of microscopes to your classroom for primary grades too!
Audience: Teachers
Location: Classroom
Cost: $100 (members), $100 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event Details11:00 AM
Use hand lenses and microscopes to magnify different items. Discover a new world that can't be seen with the naked eye.
Audience: Families
Location: Science Discovery Lab
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details3:00 PM
An activity for adults and children 9 years of age and older.
Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens
Location: Science Discovery Lab
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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