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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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Explore how simple shapes can be rearranged to make endless combinations after reading Windblown by Edouard Manceau.
Audience: Children, Families, TogetherTime Tales
View Event Details10:30 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
View Event Details10:30 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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Why does Earth have so many different types of rocks? We’ll explore the rock cycle using the Montshire’s rock collection, comparing igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and how they can transform from one type of rock into another. We’ll do (some messy) experiments on weathering and erosion; and get to examine some of our special collections of fossils and meteorites. This program has three required sessions on November 1, 8, & 15 2022.
Audience: Children, Homeschool Earth Science
Advance: 75 (members), 90 (non-members)
Door: 75 (members), 90 (non-members)
Pre-Registration Required
Event Notes: This program includes three required sessions.
View Event Details1:00 PM
Audience: Adults, Hanover Garden Club
Location: Community Room
Cost: Free
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Why does Earth have so many different types of rocks? We’ll explore the rock cycle using the Montshire’s rock collection, comparing igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and how they can transform from one type of rock into another. We’ll do (some messy) experiments on weathering and erosion; and get to examine some of our special collections of fossils and meteorites. This program has three required sessions on November 1, 8, & 15 2022.
Audience: Preteens and Teens, Homeschool Earth Science
Advance: 75 (members), 90 (non-members)
Door: 75 (members), 90 (non-members)
This Event is Full
Event Notes: This program includes three required sessions.
View Event Details11:30 AM
Audience: Children, Preteens and Teens, Jellybots on Sundays
Location: Classroom
Cost: Free
This Event is Full
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We are going to get inspiration from the book "Rollercoaster" by Marla Frazee and work together to build our own marble coasters all across the Montshire classroom.
Audience: Children, Families, Science Story TIme
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
View Event Details10:30 AM
Audience: Children, Families, TogetherTime Tales
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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