Nature Crafts
Seneca Creek State ParkFun crafts, games, and hands-on nature items. Activities at the park office vary each week!
Skulls and Tracks
Patuxent River State Park 23222 Georgia Ave, Brookeville, MDCan you match the animal with its tracks? Play a matching game with skulls and tracks, and learn about some of the animal tracks you might see around Patuxent River State Park!
Reptile Encounter
Seneca Creek State ParkCheck out Seneca's resident snake at the park office. Learn some quick facts about reptiles of Maryland and watch the live corn snake eat its meal!
Lake Frank Eagle Nest Hike
Meadowside Nature Center 5100 Meadowside Lane, DerwoodThis Montgomery County Park is home to an active eagle nest, and this hike is designed to look for eagles. Hike to the nest – but eagle sightings can't be guaranteed! Bring binoculars, camera, and water. Note that the nature center is closed on Sundays so there are no restrooms available. Meet at the Meadowside […]
Reptile Feeding
Seneca Creek State ParkCheck out Seneca's resident snake at the park office. Learn some quick facts about reptiles of Maryland and watch the live corn snake eat its meal!
Stonecutters/Clipper Cemetery Hike
In honor of Black History Month, take a hike to the lost-in-the-woods cemetery where Seneca Quarry workers were buried in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The family of John and Martha Clipper are the only graves with names lovingly etched on the markers. Learn some of the history of this hard-working family, whose descendants […]
Teeny Revelers
Washington Revels 531 Dale Drive, Silver Spring, MDBring your little ones for fun early arts enrichment activities at Washington Revels. On Tuesdays, kids have a chance to explore some of the parts and pieces that make up Revels traditions in Revels Play space. Then on Thursdays, embark on a global voyage through children's literature and music in our Mini Voyageurs programs, where […]
Nature Nook
Seneca Creek State ParkFun crafts, games, and hands-on nature items in the park office. Activities vary each week!
Tuesday Talk: Scotland Rediscovered
Beall-Dawson Museum 103 W. Montgomery Avenue, Rockville, MDMontgomery History’s Archivist/Librarian Sarah Hedlund talks about the history of the Scotland Collection, donated to the Jane Sween Research Library by Joyce Siegel in 1992, and the trove of hidden photographs and oral histories recently brought back to life through collaboration, exhibition, and community involvement.
Lecture: Thurgood Marshall and Civil Rights in Montgomery County
Rockville Senior Center 1150 Carnation Drive, Rockville, MDCivil rights icon Thurgood Marshall delivered an early blow to school segregation right here in Montgomery County gaining equal pay for the county’s African American teachers in 1937. This little-known legal case is often seen as the fist step in Marshall's successful drive to have separate schools for white and black children declared unconstitutional as […]