Playful Engineers teaching artist and engineering enthusiast Jay Mankita will present a hands-on workshop in which participants will have a chance to design, build, test, and play with Rube Goldberg “Machines”, and other chain reactions, connecting focused play with serious science. Participants learn through demonstration and play, exploring basic force and motion physics, as they […]

Join us to become Eco-photographers! We will be using the camera as a tool to study nature and enhance our observation skills. We’ll explore our world by viewing it through different lenses. During this spring’s Homeschool II class we will delve into the environment through outdoor activities, games, observations and investigations, field trips, art and […]

Join us to become Eco-photographers! We will be using the camera as a tool to study nature and enhance our observation skills. We’ll explore our world by viewing it through different lenses. During this spring’s Homeschool II class we will delve into the environment through outdoor activities, games, observations and investigations, field trips, art and […]

Join us to become Eco-photographers! We will be using the camera as a tool to study nature and enhance our observation skills. We’ll explore our world by viewing it through different lenses. During this spring’s Homeschool II class we will delve into the environment through outdoor activities, games, observations and investigations, field trips, art and […]

Playing outside in the winter is super awesome! Hitchcock’s Nature Play Afterschool Program is designed to let kids be kids. Together we will run, jump, climb, invent, imagine, play and be free-range kids all while developing self-confidence and learning valuable social skills. During Winter Nature Play we will explore wooded trails and fields, play in […]

What happens to plants and animals after they die? Or the banana peel you aren’t going to eat? They become a tasty buffet for some vital critters in the food chain. Decomposers act as nature’s “clean-up crew”—they consume dead animal carcasses, decaying plant material and waste products from other members of the ecosystem. At home […]

Join us to become Eco-photographers! We will be using the camera as a tool to study nature and enhance our observation skills. We’ll explore our world by viewing it through different lenses. During this spring’s Homeschool II class we will delve into the environment through outdoor activities, games, observations and investigations, field trips, art and […]

The Hitchcock Center is proud to co-sponsor a series of Zoom webinar talks with Climate Action Now and Save Massachusetts Forests. The first of two talks in the series, Protecting Forests: A Series of Talks About the Critical Importance of Forests in the Time of Climate Change will be given by William Moomaw. Forests are […]

Close your eyes and picture this: Birds singing on a sunny day, squirrels chasing each other up a tree, ants carrying a cookie crumb through your kitchen. We live in a world full of animals that we can learn so much from, and all we have to do is pay attention. This week we’re taking […]

The Hitchcock Center, in collaboration with Antioch University New England, is hosting the In Bloom in Western Mass webinar and panel discussion on the new film Turning School Inside Out.   The webinar will feature Western Massachusetts principals and regional educators discussing their experiences with implementing innovative outdoors practices in their preschool, kindergarten and early […]