❀ 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.
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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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Audience: Adults, Families, Preteens and Teens
Cost: Free
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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
Pre-Registration Required
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Join other families to learn about air and engineering.
Audience: Families, Homeschoolers
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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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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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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Audience: Families
Cost: Free
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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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