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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) starting 05/07/2022
The Perennial Plant Collector’s Corner
1:00 PM
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Cost: Free
View Event DetailsTogetherTime 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
View Event DetailsTogetherTime 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
View Event DetailsTogetherTime 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
View Event DetailsHanover Garden Club: Unearthing The Secret Garden with Marta McDowell
1:00 PM
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Location: Community Room
Cost: Free
View Event DetailsTogetherTime 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
View Event DetailsJellybots: Underwater Propulsion
11:30 AM
Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Jellybots on Sundays
Cost: Free
This Event is Full
View Event DetailsJellybot: 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)
This Event is Full
View Event DetailsJellybot: Soft, Aquatic, Bio-inspired Engineering (Ages: 12-15)
1:00 PM
Audience: Preteens and Teens, Jellybot
Location: Classroom
Advance: 50 (members), 50 (non-members)
Door: 75 (members), 75 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
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