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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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starting 08/13/2022

Oct
06
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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
07
Special Event

Special Exhibition Opens! I Never Saw It That Way: Exploring Science Through Art

10:00 AM

Audience: Adults, Children, Families, Preteens and Teens, Teachers

Cost: Free with Museum Admission

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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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Oct
11
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Jellybot: 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)

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Oct
16
Program

JellyBot: Robotic Jellyfish

11:30 AM

Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Jellybots on Sundays

Cost: Free

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Oct
20
Program

TogetherTime Tales: Shape and Image

10:30 AM

Explore how simple shapes can be rearranged to make endless combinations after reading Windblown by Edouard Manceau.

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

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Oct
20
Program

TogetherTime Tales: Shape and images

10:30 AM

Explore how simple shapes can be rearranged to make endless combinations after reading Windblown by Edouard Manceau.

Audience: Children, Families, TogetherTime Tales

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Oct
27
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TogetherTime Tales: Worms

10:30 AM

After meeting the worm and caterpillar that star in the book Bob and Otto by Robert Bruel we’ll have a chance to meet and examine a live worm up close.

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

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