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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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We’ll explore what makes us feel safe as we read the book Parachute by Danny Parker and then make our own miniature parachute to launch off the museum balcony.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details10:30 AM
Enjoy the amazing illustrations in Steve Jenkin’s Prehistoric Actual Size before exploring the museum’s own fossil collection.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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Discover insect diversity and adaptations, while meeting a new live insect at each class. Explore their behaviors and life cycles and examine them up close using magnifying…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Location: On-site at the Montshire
Cost: $75 (members), $90 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
Event Notes: Program is canceled
View Event Details1:00 PM
Discover insect diversity and adaptations, while meeting a new live insect at each class. Explore their behaviors and life cycles and examine them up close using magnifying…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
Location: On-site at the Montshire
Cost: $75 (members), $90 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
Event Notes: Program is canceled
View Event Details1:00 PM
Learn about current and emerging pests and plant diseases in the garden and landscape that can impact the home gardener. Ann will also discuss the best approach to management…
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Location: Program offered on Zoom
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
View Event Details10:30 AM
Join us as we read the book Stop! Bot! by James Wang. Afterward, we’ll have fun building our own fences to keep scurrying mechanical bots under control.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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Meet the bull moose in the Discovering the Natural World exhibition as we read Looking for a Moose by Phyllis Root. We’ll then have the chance to practice our own tracking…
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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Experiment with creating gravity-powered toy cars after reading Mo Willem’s book Let’s Go for a Drive.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details1:00 PM
Explore the history of Bedrock Gardens, a dairy farm turned into a remarkable garden oasis by founders Jill Nooney and Bob Munger. Today the garden is evolving into a premier…
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Location: Will be held on Zoom
Cost: Free
Pre-Registration Required
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