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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 02/24/2022

May
03
Program

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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Sep
22
Program

TogetherTime Tales: Fish Patterns

10:30 AM

Enjoy the wonderful book Pattern Fish by Trudy Harris and create our own patterned fish with stamps and creativity.

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

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Sep
29
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TogetherTime Tales: Float Your Boat

10:30 AM

Build, test, and sink your own boat as we learn about balance and weight (along with the silly antics of some cute critters) in Pamela Allen’s Who Sank the Boat.

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

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Oct
04
Program

Hanover Garden Club: Unearthing The Secret Garden with Marta McDowell

1:00 PM

Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club

Location: Community Room

Cost: Free

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Oct
06
Program

TogetherTime Tales: Caterpillar Craft

10:30 AM

Create your very own fuzzy caterpillar after reading the Eric Carle classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

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

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Oct
09
Program

Jellybots: Underwater Propulsion

11:30 AM

Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Jellybots on Sundays

Cost: Free

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Oct
11
Program

Jellybot: Soft, Aquatic, Bio-inspired Engineering (Ages: 9-12)

10:30 AM

Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Jellybot

Location: Classroom

Advance: 50 (members), 50 (non-members)

Door: 75 (members), 75 (non-members)

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