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Lara Litchfield-Kimber, plant pathologist and executive director of the Montshire Museum of Science.

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) for starting 10/16/2021

Mar
24
Program

Homeschool series: Sustainable Engineering for ages 8-11 (4 part series begins)

10:30 AM

Combine engineering design and alternative energy strategies, as we create cardboard structures and fit them with solar, wind and other sustainable energy solutions! In each…

Audience: Children, Homeschoolers

Location: On-site at the Montshire

Cost: $100 (members), $120 (non-members)

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Mar
24
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Science Story Time: Fish Fun

10:30 AM

Relax surrounded by the aquariums in Life in Local Waters as we read the book Pattern Fish by Trudy Harris. After the story time we’ll create our own patterned paper fish to…

Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme

Cost: Free with Museum Admission

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Mar
24
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Homeschool series: Sustainable Engineering for ages 12-15 (4 part series begins)

1:00 PM

Combine engineering design and alternative energy strategies, as we create cardboard structures and fit them with solar, wind and other sustainable energy solutions! In each…

Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Homeschoolers

Location: On-site at the Montshire

Cost: $100 (members), $120 (non-members)

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Apr
05
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Hanover Garden Club: Floral Designs Inspired By Fabulous New England Gardens

1:00 PM

Join Thelma Shoneman in this program, which features floral designs inspired by four New England gardens: Coastal Maine Botanical Garden; Hildene in Vermont; Tower Hill Botanic…

Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club

Location: Community Room

Cost: Free

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May
02
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Homeschool Series: Aquatic Explorations ages 6-8 (3 part series begins)

10:30 AM

Explore our local aquatic world in this three-week series. Using microscope, we’ll learn about the aquatic insects and invertebrates found in ponds. We’ll also be introduced…

Audience: Children, Homeschoolers

Location: On-site at the Montshire

Cost: $75 (members), $90 (non-members)

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May
02
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Homeschool Series: Aquatic Explorations for ages 9-12 (3 part series begins)

1:00 PM

Explore our local aquatic world in this three-week series. Using microscope, we’ll learn about the aquatic insects and invertebrates found in ponds. We’ll also be introduced…

Audience: Children, Homeschoolers

Location: On-site at the Montshire

Cost: $75 (members), $90 (non-members)

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May
03
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Hanover Garden Club: Designing with Ferns

1:00 PM

Learn about the diversity among ferns and how to use these plants in the garden. Speaker Leslie Duthie will also share the important ecological role of ferns in the landscape…

Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club

Location: Community Room

Cost: Free

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Sep
06
Program

The Perennial Plant Collector’s Corner

1:00 PM

Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club

Cost: Free

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Sep
15
Program

TogetherTime Tales: Animal Tracks

10:30 AM

We’ll read Who Has These Feet by Laura Hulbert and afterward explore other local animal tracks and learn which tracks belong to which animals.

Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme, TogetherTime Tales

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