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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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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
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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
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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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Learn about the parts of a moon rocket in Tony Mitton’s Roaring Rockets, then make your own stomp rocket to launch skyward.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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Explore forces and motions as we test out a variety of balls and other objects that roll. Each week in this drop-off program will feature an engineering and building challenge.
Audience: Children, Homeschoolers
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Cost: $75 (members), $90 (non-members)
This Event is Full
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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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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)
This Event is Full
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