❀ We are OPEN for Easter, Sunday, March 31, 2024 ❀ Read More
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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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 Details10:00 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
View Event Details3:30 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 Details10:30 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 Details10:30 AM
Explore what animals are up to in the winter while we read Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner. Then, make your own winter track book to take home.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details10:30 AM
Explore what animals are up to in the winter while we read Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner. Then, make your own winter track book to take home.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details4:00 PM
Celebrate the first year of our leaf cutter ant queen and colony by visiting one of the Montshire’s favorite exhibits from home. Get an up close look at soldier ants, see…
Audience: Children, Families, Animals Up Close
Location: Via Zoom
Cost: Free
This Event is for Members Only
Pre-Registration Required
View Event Details9:00 AM
In this virtual workshop for children ages 4–5 and an adult, we’ll be designing and testing vehicles all month long. From building our own toy cars to testing hot wheels…
Audience: Children, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $85 (members), $100 (non-members)
This Event is Full
View Event Details10:00 AM
In this virtual workshop for children ages 4–5 and an adult, we’ll be designing and testing vehicles all month long. From building our own toy cars to testing hot wheels…
Audience: Children, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $85 (members), $100 (non-members)
This Event is Full
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