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  • 4-5:30pm Monarch Tagging Program

    Family Programs

    The monarch butterflies are back and their cycle continues! Come for a small group, in-person, class to see them up close, learn about their fascinating life cycle, tag and release […]

    Donation

  • 4-5:30pm Monarch Tagging Program

    Family Programs

    The monarch butterflies are back and their cycle continues! Come for a small group, in-person, class to see them up close, learn about their fascinating life cycle, tag and release […]

    Donation

  • 10:00am-12:00pm Nature-based Field Trip: Life in a Stream

    Family Programs

    Streams are an excellent place for the science of discovery and investigation. The critters who make their home in the stream demonstrate a beautiful web of life, from algae and […]

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  • Fall Birding Series with Scott Surner

    Adult Programs

    Join Scott Surner for outdoor birding this fall. Good news,  in spite of all that isn’t safe right now watching birds outdoors is still to be enjoyed. Field trips will meet at the locations rather than at the Hitchcock Center and there will be no carpooling. Masks will need to be worn when 6ft distance […]

    $216 – $360

  • 9am-12pm Nature All Year: Insect Tracks and Signs

    Adult Programs

    Join us for an in-depth natural history course to develop your naturalists skills. Each month, in our series of nature explorations with different local naturalists, we explore a focused, seasonal, natural history topic. We’ll look at nature in new ways, from broad habitat perspectives to close details of individual species. Over the course of the […]

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  • 10:00am-12:00pm Junior Nature Play Series

    Ages 5–8 or Grades K–3

    We are pleased to offer for the first time a new Nature Play program that includes kindergartners— Junior Nature Play! Children in kindergarten and first grade may sign up for this immersive, lightly-structured program that lets kids be “free-range” while being safely supervised. Instructor Katie Koerten will lead us to our favorite places to play […]

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  • 1:00-2:00pm Class Program (Virtual)

    Family Programs

    Have a Hitchcock educator pay a virtual visit to your classroom or home! Our virtual class programs will be focused on specific topics to fit with your science curriculum. You […]

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  • 3:30-5:30pm Nature Play Afterschool Monday Series

    Ages 5–8 or Grades K–3

    Our Nature Play Afterschool Program is designed to let kids be kids. Together we will run, jump, climb, invent, imagine, play and be free-range children, all while developing self-confidence and learning valuable social skills. We will explore wooded trails and fields, play in the leaves, build forts, climb trees, make new discoveries about ourselves and […]

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  • 9:30am-12:30pm The Ology of Ologists Homeschool Adventure Tuesday Series

    Ages 9–11 or Grades 4–6

    Join us in this fall program series as we learn the jobs that scientists do. We will focus on a different “ology” each week — from archeology to zoology we will explore different realms of science. This will be an all-outdoor program, and will include a morning circle, an activity focused on the ology of […]

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