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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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Science Story Time: Toppling Towers
10:30 AM
Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty features a kid that can never stop building and building! We’ll make our own towers with 100’s of cups and other oddities as we reach for…
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: Toppling Towers
10:30 AM
Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty features a kid that can never stop building and building! We’ll make our own towers with 100’s of cups and other oddities as we reach for…
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsMessy Mixtures Virtual Program (for ages 4-5 with a caregiver)
9:00 AM
In this virtual program for children ages 4-5 and an adult, we will mix, experiment and get messy with science. Each week we will focus on a different experiment, use a variety…
Audience: Children, Families, Programs for Preschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $100 (members), $125 (non-members)
This Event is Full
View Event DetailsElectricity Virtual Workshop (for ages 9-12)
10:00 AM
Grow your understanding of circuits and make electricity work for you as we create switches, capacitors, and more! Design challenges will guide our investigations and develop…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $100 (members), $125 (non-members)
This Event is Full
View Event DetailsHanover Garden Club: Designing with Proven Winners (2021 Selections)
1:00 PM
Join a discussion with Russ Knowles, the regional retail account manager at Proven Winners. Proven Winners operates out of Pleasant View Garden and serves multiple large,…
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
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 DetailsLight and Mirrors Virtual Workshop (for ages 6-8)
3:30 PM
Use mirrors as a fun science tool to experiment with reflections, angles and symmetry. Together, we’ll create everything from kaleidoscopes to periscopes. In the dark we’ll…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $100 (members), $125 (non-members)
This Event is Full
View Event DetailsScience Story Time: Books Rock
10:30 AM
Explore the museum’s volcanic rock collection after reading the beautiful book A Rock is Lively by Diane Hutts Aston.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event DetailsNature Photography Virtual Workshop (for ages 11-14)
1:00 PM
Become a better observer of the natural world, using photography as your tool! Explore how changing your perspective and framing can alter what you notice and what you are able…
Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $100 (members), $125 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsElectricity Virtual Workshop (for ages 6-8)
10:00 AM
Explore circuits and uncover the basics of electricity through hands-on engineering. We’ll build simple-to-complex electrical components as we play with the power of the…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $100 (members), $125 (non-members)
This Event is Full
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