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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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starting 10/14/2020
Homeschoolers Series: Kinetic Art (ages 12-15)
10:00 AM
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
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: Falling Leaves
10:30 AM
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
View Event DetailsHomeschoolers Series: Superhero Science (ages 6-8)
10:30 AM
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
View Event DetailsHomeschoolers Series: Superhero Science (ages 9-12)
1:00 PM
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.
View Event DetailsMessy Mixtures
10:30 AM
In this three-part in-person program for children ages 4-5 and an adult, we will mix, experiment and get messy with science. Each week we will focus on different experiments…
Audience: Children, Programs for Preschoolers
Cost: $60 (members), $70 (non-members)
Event Notes: Canceled
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: Falling Leaves
10:30 AM
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
View Event DetailsVirtual Author Talk with David Macaulay
4:00 PM
Join us for a virtual conversation with award-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay. Signed copies of his new book, Mammoth Science: The Big Ideas That Explain Our…
Audience: Adults, Families
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
Event Notes: Registration is now closed
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: Air Play
10:30 AM
We’ll read the playful book Windblown by Edouard Manceau, then explore shapes and air as we build paper contraptions to blow in the wind.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsHealth Research Live! Vaccine Research and Initiatives
12:00 PM
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on vaccinations in the larger conversation of public health. Elizabeth Talbot (New Hampshire’s Deputy State Epidemiologist) and…
Audience: Adults, Health Research Live!
Location: via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
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