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Lara Litchfield-Kimber, plant pathologist and executive director of the Montshire Museum of Science.

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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Program(s) for Families starting 03/02/2019

Mar
29
Program

Homeschoolers Day Science Fair

10:00 AM

Need some ideas? Here are some recommendations to get you started. Start with a question! 
Have a question that’s stumped, puzzled, or baffled you? Make a list of them.…

Audience: Families, Homeschoolers

Cost: Free with Museum Admission

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Apr
18
Program

Film Screening of "Albatross"

6:00 PM

Audience: Adults, Families, Preteens and Teens

Cost: Free

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Oct
27
Program

FIRST Lego League Scrimmage

1:00 PM

Want a chance to practice with your robot before the FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) state events? How about the opportunity to learn from other teams and see how they’re…

Audience: Children, Families, Preteens and Teens

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Nov
07
Program

Homeschoolers Day: Air and Engineering

10:00 AM

Join other families to learn about air and engineering.

Audience: Families, Homeschoolers

Cost: Free with Museum Admission

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Nov
09
Program

Take Apart Day

12:00 PM

Ever wonder what’s inside the household objects you use every day?

Audience: Families

Location: Classroom

Cost: Free with Museum Admission

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Mar
05
Program

Science Story Time: Making Music

11:00 AM

Explore the Montshire’s “Making Music: Science of Musical Instruments” exhibition as we read Play this Book by Jessica Young and Daniel Wiseman. Young children will have…

Audience: Families, Science Story TIme

Cost: Free with Museum Admission

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Apr
06
Program

Montshire at Home: Chain Reaction

7:30 AM

Audience: Families

Cost: Free

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Apr
13
Program

Montshire at Home: Eggs

7:30 AM

Audience: Families

Cost: Free

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Apr
20
Program

Montshire at Home: Cardboard Creations

7:30 AM

Join us for a week of videos, home projects, downloadable activities, and other learning resources as we build cardboard creations!

Audience: Families

Cost: Free

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