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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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Program(s) starting 07/01/2021
Hanover Garden Club: Nature’s Best Hope
1:00 PM
Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have…
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
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Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsNature Inspired Design for Homeschoolers ages 6-8
10:30 AM
Come ready to explore inside and out, using the Montshire’s teaching collections, 110 acres, and your creativity to engineer mechanisms and structures inspired by nature.…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Location: On-site at the Montshire
Cost: $100 (members), $120 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsNature Inspired Design for Homeschoolers ages 9-12
1:00 PM
Come ready to explore inside and out, using the Montshire’s teaching collections, 110 acres, and your creativity to engineer mechanisms and structures inspired by nature.…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Location: On-site at the Montshire
Cost: $100 (members), $120 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsCars Go Zoom Virtual Workshop for ages 4-5 with a caregiver
10:00 AM
Design and test cars all month long. From building our own toy cars to testing hot wheels under scientific conditions, we’ll bring out the car mechanic and engineer in every kid!
Audience: Children, Programs for Preschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $70 (members), $85 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
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View Event DetailsCars go Zoom Virtual Workshop for ages 6-8
1:00 PM
In this virtual workshop for children ages 6-8, design and test cars all month long. From building our own toy cars to testing hot wheels under scientific conditions, we’ll…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $120 (members), $140 (non-members)
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View Event DetailsHanover Garden Club: Designing a Right-Sized Foodscape
1:00 PM
Foodscaping is all about making the most of the square footage that is available. Discover strategies to cultivate a smaller footprint while still growing the flowers and food…
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsTest Tube Science for ages 4-6
10:00 AM
Predict, experiment, and make observations as we create our own unique mixtures each week. It’s the perfect blend for a gleeful and messy science time.
Audience: Children, Programs for Preschoolers
Location: On-site at the Montshire
Cost: $100 (members), $120 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsAirplay for Homeschoolers age 6-8
10:30 AM
Explore air, including its physical properties, how objects interact with it, and how moving air can be a force that behaves in interesting ways.
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Location: On-site at the Montshire
Cost: $100 (members), $120 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
View Event DetailsAirplay for Homeschoolers ages 9-12
1:00 PM
Explore air, including its physical properties, how objects interact with it, and how moving air can be a force that behaves in interesting ways.
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Location: On-site at the Montshire
Cost: $100 (members), $120 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
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