Vermont Space Grant Consortium
Montshire Museum

The Montshire Museum of Science provides a variety of STEM programming for families, teachers, and students as part of the Vermont Space Grant Consortium. The Montshire Museum offers a menu of one-hour inquiry-based workshops for visiting students to the Museum. A special suite of four workshops focus on earth processes and climate science are aimed at students in grades 5 – 8. These programs were presented to 23 classes. The Museum also provided 30 one-hour long space science workshops focusing on descriptive astronomy. In addition to the student programs at the Museum, Montshire staff traveled to 10 different schools throughout Vermont bringing day-long earth and space science programs to students living in rural communities. Family activities to the Montshire aligned with the Museums Space Grant program including an Earth and Space special event day in January with guest earth scientists and astronomers presenting hands-on family science activities to over 500 visitors. A Climate Science special event day on November 5, 2016 was held at the Museum that included opportunities for 734 visitors to learn about climate research and even touch an actual ice core collected in Antarctica by climate scientists. Overall, 3,585 students, teachers, and family members engaged in extended space and earth science activities through Montshires VTSGC supported programs.