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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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Events starting 11/03/2020
Artful Insects Virtual Workshop (for ages 6-8)
10:00 AM
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
View Event DetailsPlayful Patterns Virtual Workshop (for ages 9-12)
1:00 PM
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
View Event DetailsHanover Garden Club: Artist Gardens in New England
1:00 PM
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.
View Event DetailsHomeschoolers 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
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