2020 Jul 20
Virtual Summer Science Week: Earth Explorers (Session 2)
Repeats every day until Fri Jul 24 2020 .
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Dig into Earth Science with this virtual museum experience. Explore volcanoes, crystals, and fossils! During the live Zoom sessions, experiment with “lava,” solve a sandy mystery, and see real museum specimens. Continue your investigations at home as you grow crystals, collect rocks, and make your own fossils! A small packet of special materials will be sent to your home to help with your discoveries.
Additional supplies needed: An empty clear plastic jar with a lid (for example, a cleaned peanut butter or mayonnaise jar), a handful of small rocks (will be used for an activity...
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2020 Jul 13
Virtual Summer Science Week: Earth Explorers (Session 1)
Repeats every day until Fri Jul 17 2020 .
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Dig into Earth Science with this virtual museum experience. Explore volcanoes, crystals, and fossils! During the live Zoom sessions, experiment with “lava,” solve a sandy mystery, and see real museum specimens. Continue your investigations at home as you grow crystals, collect rocks, and make your own fossils! A small packet of special materials will be sent to your home to help with your discoveries.
Additional supplies needed: An empty clear plastic jar with a lid (for example, a cleaned peanut butter or mayonnaise jar), a handful of small rocks (will be used for an activity...
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2020 Jun 29
Virtual Summer Science Week: Space! (Session 1)
Repeats every day until Fri Jul 03 2020 .
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Look up! How do we explore beyond planet Earth? With live Zoom sessions, we’ll compare moon rocks to ones on Earth, explore how light helps us understand what stars are made of, discuss what signs of life we might see on Mars or Europa, and meet a scientist from Harvard who is studying space. At home, you’ll search out “secret” light, create your best Mars lander, safely observe the sun, map out astronomical distances, and chart constellations. A small packet of special materials will be sent to your home to help with your explorations.
Additional supplies needed: Scissors,...
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2020 Jun 25
Wonder Spots at the Arnold Arboretum
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The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Discover, Wonder, Have Fun!
Wonder Spots give Arboretum families an opportunity to explore the landscape through weekly investigations about the natural world. Learn about plants and animals in locations throughout the Arboretum, getting to know our grounds while discovering and observing living things in new ways. Each week, the featured Wonder Spot will be identified by a sign in the landscape. You can also find a Wonder Spot by using the map provided ...
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2020 Jun 22
Virtual Summer Science Week: Spineless Wonders (Session 1)
Repeats every weekday until Fri Jun 26 2020 .
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Come explore the amazing world of insects, spiders, and other invertebrates, virtually, at the museum! During the live Zoom sessions, see a tarantula up close, help find millipedes, and listen to the hiss of a giant cockroach. Complete your own investigations at home as you learn how to collect and study creepy crawlies. A small packet of special collecting materials will be sent to your home to help with your discoveries.
Additional supplies needed: An empty clear plastic jar with a lid and holes for insect collecting (for example, a cleaned peanut butter or mayonnaise jar);...
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2020 Jun 20
Summer Solstice 2020
10:00am to 3:00pm
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Online—Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Celebrate the longest day of the year and mark the beginning of the summer with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. While we can’t welcome you to our museums in person just yet, we invite you to join us online on June 20 starting at 10:00 am to learn about the scientific and cultural significance of the summer solstice, participate in virtual field trips to the Stonehenge World Heritage site in England and a Massachusetts oyster farm, enjoy musical performances, and explore activities to do at home.
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2020 Jun 16
Farmers' Market at Harvard
Repeats every week every Tuesday until Tue Oct 27 2020 except Tue Aug 25 2020.
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Harvard Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge
We are excited to announce that the Farmers' Market at Harvard will open this summer, beginning on TUESDAY, JUNE 16th, from 12-6 pm!  
Join us at the market every Tuesday, and help support the vital local farmers and food artisans who ensure we have fresh, healthy, safe food!
The market will be modified to create a safe shopping environment for everyone: we will feature a limited number of vendors, and will have protocols in place in keeping with state requirements (including face coverings, gloves, handwashing stations, and layouts that allow for social...
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2020 May 18
3rd–5th Grade Virtual Field Trip Program
Repeats every week on Monday, Tuesday until Tue Jun 09 2020 .
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Allston-Brighton students in grades 3-5 are invited to join virtual field trips to locations across the globe. Students will be encouraged to explore, think creatively, and expand their understanding of the world we live in.
The program will be led by Harvard undergraduates who will lead students on a guided virtual experience designed to grow a greater curiosity for learning.
Please note: To join this program your student must have access to a device that can support video streaming.
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2020 May 02
Ho Family Student Guide Tour
Repeats every week every Saturday, 5 times .
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The Ho Family Student Guide Program at the Harvard Art Museums trains students to develop original, research-based tours of the collections. These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on select objects chosen by each student guide and provide visitors a unique, thematic view into collections.
Details on the Zoom tours and links to participate can be found in the Events section of the Harvard Art Museums Facebook page. Audiences can also follow the student...
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2020 Apr 16
Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of Nancy Sableski
3:00pm to 4:00pm
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Nancy Sableski, Arnold Arboretum Manager of Children’s Education, is also an artist who has been painting in the Arboretum since 1988, finding inspiration throughout the landscape. Join us for a virtual viewing of her work followed by a short discussion via the meeting app, Zoom.
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2020 Apr 07
Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of Nancy Sableski
10:00am to 11:00am
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Nancy Sableski, Arnold Arboretum Manager of Children’s Education, is also an artist who has been painting in the Arboretum since 1988, finding inspiration throughout the landscape. Join us for a virtual viewing of her work followed by a short discussion via the meeting app, Zoom.
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2020 Apr 01
Pause for Art: Creative Moments from Harvard
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The Office for the Arts offers a daily dose of artistic inspiration for anyone looking to find a moment of beauty, comfort and connection. Alumni, faculty, staff, and visiting artists are sending in short videos showcasing their music, poetry, dance, and more. New videos are posted every weekday around 1:00pm.
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2020 Apr 01
Everyday Nature Tasks
Wed Apr 1 (All day) to Fri Jun 12 (All day)
The outdoors can be a powerful antidote to all the uncertainty and disruptions that we find ourselves living in at the moment. The Arnold Arboretum's Everyday Nature Tasks online calendar is filled with simple, varied, and open-ended nature activities for children of all ages, every day of the week!
Simply choose a date, follow the activity details and have fun. Then, share your discoveries on social media, and tag @ArnoldArboretum.
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2020 Feb 29
Harvard/Yale Battle of the Big Bands
8:00pm
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Scullers Jazz Club, 400 Soldiers Field Rd., Boston
Join Scullers Jazz Club for the Third Annual "Battle of the Big Bands" with the Harvard and Yale Jazz Orchestras with Special Guests, Saxophonists Wayne Escoffery and Yosvani Terry!
Harvard's Jazz Band has performed worldwide, including 2017 performances in Cuba, and past concerts have included tributes to Herbie Hancock, Benny Golson, and many other important jazz artists. Performers in these concerts have included Terri Lyne Carrington, Lionel Loueke, Harold Mabern, George Coleman, Don Braden, and more.
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2020 Feb 29
Dig into Dinner
1:00pm to 4:00pm
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Explore the new Resetting the Table exhibition, starting at the dinner table set for a party. Family-friendly activities about what we eat will be set up throughout the gallery: drop in for smell stations, Play-Doh® desserts, games with prizes, and a raffle of dinner for two at a Harvard Square restaurant.
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2020 Feb 26
Parker Quartet: Spectrum
7:00pm to 8:30pm
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Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet returns to the Harvard Ed Portal February 26 as part of their 2019-2020 season. Join us for an evening of classical music that explores 300 years of the string quartet genre, and its history of inspiring great composers to create their most personal and dynamic works. Covering a wide spectrum of artistic thought and expression, from humor and mysticism to a holy song of thanksgiving, the program will highlight select works from this exciting and unique medium. All are welcome!
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2020 Feb 16
Family Hike: Play in the Snow
2:00pm to 3:30pm
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Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Families need nature all year round! Meet inside the main gate at the Visitor Center. We will find a place to play together, making snow angels, snow humans, and more! Afterwards, families are invited to come inside the Lecture Hall to warm up with cookies and cocoa. Free and open to all, most suitable for children ages four through ten.
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2020 Feb 08
I Heart Science
10:00am to 4:00pm
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Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Awaken your love of science with activities led by Harvard scientists, graduate students, and enthusiastic explorers. Meet scientists who investigate fossils, microbes, and carnivorous plants. Hear short talks on current research at Harvard. Explore fermenting microbes in action as they perform in a musical art installation! Bring your own collections to show to local shell and minerals clubs. This program has something for everyone and is appropriate for children and adults of all ages.
Note: Regular museum admission rates apply.
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2020 Jan 02
Animal Talk: A Dr. Dolittle Scavenger Hunt
Thu Jan 2 (All day) to Fri Jan 31 (All day)
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Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
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Have you ever wished that you could talk with other animals? Doctor Dolittle, the imaginary character in the Hugh Lofting book The Story of Doctor Dolittle, could do just that! Doctor Dolittle learned animal languages and made animal friends all over the world. Use the clues to find six of his animal friends in the museum and learn how that animal really communicates. Then, like Doctor Dolittle, tell us what you think that animal is saying by drawing or writing...
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2019 Dec 29
Animal Talk: A Dr. Dolittle Scavenger Hunt
Sun Dec 29 (All day) to Tue Dec 31 (All day)
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Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge
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Have you ever wished that you could talk with other animals? Doctor Dolittle, the imaginary character in the Hugh Lofting book The Story of Doctor Dolittle, could do just that! Doctor Dolittle learned animal languages and made animal friends all over the world. Use the clues to find six of his animal friends in the museum and learn how that animal really communicates. Then, like Doctor Dolittle, tell us what you think that animal is saying by drawing or writing...
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