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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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Special Event(s) starting 03/05/2019
MBP Executive Networking Breakfast
8:00 AM
Audience: Adults
This Event is by Invitation Only
View Event DetailsDay for Science
10:00 AM
Enjoy a day packed with hands-on science activities for all ages and celebrate the importance of science during this special event — free admission and open to all members of…
Audience: Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
Cost: Free
View Event DetailsMember Preview of Mindbender Mansion
5:30 PM
Enter an eclectic world of puzzles, brainteasers and interactive challenges guaranteed to test the skills of even the most experienced puzzlers. Visitors of all ages will enjoy…
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
Cost: Free
This Event is for Members Only
View Event DetailsMindbender Mansion opens
10:00 AM
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsBotanical Investigation Day
11:00 AM
11:00 Nature Up Close – Head outside to collect local plant samples and use our portable microscopes to find the unexpected. Science Park Pavilion. 12:00 Dissecting…
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsApollo 11 50th Anniversary
10:30 AM
Participate in hands-on science activities Learn about the technology used to send a person to the Moon Speak to an astronaut about life in space Discover the history behind…
Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsMontshire Block Party: An Outdoor Engineering Weekend
10:30 AM
There are no limits to your imagination when the Montshire’s outdoor space is transformed into a building site for your big, bold, and beautiful creations.
Audience: Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsMontshire Block Party: An Outdoor Engineering Weekend
10:30 AM
There are no limits to your imagination when the Montshire’s outdoor space is transformed into a building site for your big, bold, and beautiful creations.
Audience: Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsMontshire Block Party: An Outdoor Engineering Weekend
10:30 AM
There are no limits to your imagination when the Montshire’s outdoor space is transformed into a building site for your big, bold, and beautiful creations.
Audience: Children, Families, Preteens and Teens
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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