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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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Program(s) for starting 04/12/2019
FIRST® LEGO® Rookie Coaches Training
1:00 PM
Interested in starting a FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) team, but have more questions, or are not sure where to start? This workshop is for you!
Audience: Adults
Location: Classroom
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsTraining for FIRST® LEGO® League coaches—FLL® Programming Workshop
2:00 PM
Worried that you don't know anything about programming and have a gaggle of kids to teach? Well, put your mind at ease!
Audience: Adults
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsRock Gardens
1:00 PM
Marianne Kuchel will demonstrate how you can utilize the Upper Valley’s abundant ledge and stone for even a small rock garden or lovely troughs, as well as plants you might…
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Location: Community Room
Cost: Free
View Event DetailsAfterschool Adventures (for K-2) — Fall Session Begins
3:30 PM
Explore science and nature using hands-on experiences and real experiments. We will hypothesize, test, observe, and use our creativity. Explore a different theme each week!…
Audience: Children, Afterschool Programs
Location: Classroom
Cost: $150 (members), $165 (non-members)
This Event is Full
View Event DetailsMontshire Makers: Amplify It!
6:00 PM
Anything can be an instrument with a contact mic! Learn how to amplify and record sounds with contact mics and an iPad. Back at the Makers studio, use Garage Band to layer…
Audience: Preteens and Teens, Montshire Makers
Location: Classroom
Advance: $8 (members), $10 (non-members)
Door: $12 (members), $15 (non-members)
View Event DetailsSoil Health & Edible Landscapes
1:00 PM
Can we as gardeners and land managers help to slow water down, deepen watersheds, increase biological soil health and create conditions for thriving ecosystems, all while…
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Location: Community Room
Cost: Free
View Event DetailsMontshire Makers: Monster Heads
6:00 PM
Design and construct a wearable monster head, just in time for Halloween! Glowing LED eyes encouraged.
Audience: Preteens and Teens, Montshire Makers
Location: Classroom
Advance: $8 (members), $10 (non-members)
Door: $12 (members), $15 (non-members)
This Event is Full
View Event DetailsHealthy Eating During Childhood
6:30 PM
Health Research Live! is a program produced and organized by Dartmouth Synergy, the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, and the Montshire Museum of Science. It aims to bring community…
Audience: Adults, Health Research Live!
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsMaking Observations: Identifying, Observing and Communicating Local Learning Values
8:30 AM
Learn about the ways in which museums and libraries across the country are working to evidence learning. Discover their processes to create valid, reliable, useful and usable…
Audience: Teachers, Professional Development
Cost: Free
This Event is Full
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