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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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Does your little one like to experiment and create things? If so, join us in our Mini-Makers program. This three-part in-person program is for children ages 4-5 and an adult to…
Audience: Children, Families, Programs for Preschoolers
Cost: $60 (members), $70 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
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Audience: Adults, Teachers, Health Research Live!
Location: via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
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Ages 4-5 + caregiver Does your little one like to experiment and create things? If so, join us in our Mini-Makers program. This three-part virtual program is for children ages…
Audience: Children, Programs for Preschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom
Cost: $75 (members), $85 (non-members)
This Event is Full
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Explore the diversity and adaptations of insects in this three week virtual workshop series that combines natural history and making. In your materials kit you’ll have…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Virtual program via Zoom
Cost: $75 (members), $85 (non-members)
This Event is Full
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From stripes on a crosswalk to stripes on a zebra, we live in a world of patterns. In this three part maker-based series, we will explore the science, beauty and utility of…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Virtual program via Zoom
Cost: $75 (members), $85 (non-members)
This Event is Full
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Join the Hanover Garden Club at the Montshire for the program, Artist Gardens in New England, with Jana Milbocker and Joan Butler. Some of our most beloved painters, sculptors…
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
Event Notes: This program will be conducted on Zoom. Once you have registered, a link will be sent to you the day before the program.
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Explore force and motion as we apply scientific principles of equilibrium, stability, center of balance, and gravity to our focused engineering and tinkering time together.…
Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Homeschoolers
Cost: $75 (members), $85 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
Event Notes: Currently we are only able to accept participants who live in Vermont due to Vermont travel restrictions
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Celebrate the end of fall as we play and get creative with leaves. To get inspired, we’ll read about the adventures of Leaf Man in Lois Ehlert’s colorful book of leaf collages.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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Up, Up, and engineer your way through a variety of challenges! Explore the science behind your favorite superhero or super-shero, build your own superhero action figures, and…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Cost: $75 (members), $85 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
Event Notes: We are currently only enrolling participants who live in Vermont due to Vermont travel restrictions
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