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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.
View Details10:00 AM
Enjoy FOUR DAYS of savings in the Museum Store
Audience: Adults, Families
Location: Museum Store
Cost: Free
View Event Details10:00 AM
Enjoy FOUR DAYS of savings in the Museum Store
Audience: Adults, Families
Location: Museum Store
Cost: Free
View Event Details10:00 AM
Visit the Montshire to enjoy free admission and 25% savings on all Museum Store purchases for Montshire Business Partnership employees!
Audience: Adults, Families
Cost: Free
View Event Details10:00 AM
Visit the Montshire to enjoy free admission and 25% savings on all Museum Store purchases for Montshire Business Partnership employees!
Audience: Adults, Families
Cost: Free
View Event Details10:00 AM
Enjoy FOUR DAYS of savings in the Museum Store
Audience: Adults, Families
Location: Museum Store
Cost: Free
View Event Details10:30 AM
Explore how shapes, from rectangles to circles, can be transformed into endless combinations in Dayle Ann Dodds’ book The Shape of Things. We’ll practice combining and…
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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Become an artistic astronaut! Explore outer space through crafting constellations, making moons, and painting planets. Discover where science and art meet.
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $90 (members), $105 (non-members)
This Event is Full
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Learn about the intricate beauty, anatomy, and adaptations of insects during this three week series as we meet the museum’s live insect collection up close on your screen,…
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers, Virtual Workshop Series
Location: Via Zoom; details to follow after registration
Cost: $90 (members), $105 (non-members)
This Event is Full
View Event Details10:30 AM
Together, we’ll read the book The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins. Afterward, you can build your own contraption to test in the museum’s wind tube.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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