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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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In this virtual workshop, 12-15 year olds will design, test and build your own working, cardboard pinball machine around a theme of your choosing. Engineer a launcher, flippers,…
Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $110 (members), $135 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event Details3:30 PM
Trick your eyes and brain! Each week we’ll try and then make our own optical illusions. From thaumatropes to afterimages, we will discover the science behind each optical…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Cost: $110 (members), $135 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
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It floats, it falls, it flies, it glides! We’ll build and experiment with them all as we make everything from parachutes to rockets to helicopters, to test and play with again…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $110 (members), $135 (non-members)
This Event is Full
View Event Details3:30 PM
It floats, it falls, it flies, it glides! We’ll build and experiment with them all as we make everything from parachutes to rockets to helicopters, to test and play with again…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $110 (members), $135 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
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Join Montshire, along with local educators and experts, for hands-on inquiry-based learning about sustainable design, including green building techniques, renewable energy and…
Audience: Families
Cost: $30 (members), $40 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event Details4:00 PM
Join us for some mealtime fun as we feed the frogs and toads together. Meet the museum’s amphibians, learn how to tell them apart, and see who’s got the fastest tongue this…
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 program for 4-5 year olds and their adult caregiver, we will combine science and math in fun and engaging ways as we explore patterns, geometry and number relationships.…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Programs for Preschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $85 (members), $100 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event Details10:00 AM
In this program for 4-5 year olds and their adult caregiver, we will combine science and math in fun and engaging ways as we explore patterns, geometry and number relationships.…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Programs for Preschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $85 (members), $100 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event Details10:45 AM
In this program for 4-5 year olds and their adult caregiver, we will combine science and math in fun and engaging ways as we explore patterns, geometry and number relationships.…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Programs for Preschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $85 (members), $100 (non-members)
Event Notes: Canceled
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