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Featured Upcoming Event on April 2 at 1:00 pm
Fertile Minds: Children Belong in the Garden with Lara Litchfield-Kimber
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.
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starting 02/22/2019
Sound Science
3:00 PM
Sounds are all around us!
Audience: Families
Location: Science Discovery Lab
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsHoopster Gliders
11:00 AM
Learn to build a glider that soars through the air!
Audience: Families
Location: Science Discovery Lab
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsLab Coat Investigations
3:00 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 DetailsColor Mixing
11:00 AM
Learn how to mix up colors!
Audience: Families
Location: Science Discovery Lab
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsMirror, Mirror
3:00 PM
Use mirrors to investigate reflection and symmetry.
Audience: Families
Location: Science Discovery Lab
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsStraw Rockets
11:00 AM
You've heard of paper airplanes, but how about paper rockets?
Audience: Families
Location: Science Discovery Lab
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsFossils: Evidence of the Past
3:00 PM
You will get a chance to handle real fossils from the Museum's collection and then use a variety of clues to uncover their origins.
Audience: Families
Location: Science Discovery Lab
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsMicroscopic Investigations
11:00 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 DetailsLab Coat Investigations
3:00 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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