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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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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
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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)
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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 Details6:00 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 Details6:30 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 Details8:30 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
View Event Details1:00 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
Pre-Registration Required
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Using unconventional textures, flowers and fruit as well as traditional holiday greenery, learn how to create an unexpected winter arrangement. You will be shown how to arrange…
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Location: Community Room
Cost: Free
View Event Details10:00 AM
Join other families to learn about air and engineering.
Audience: Families, Homeschoolers
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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