#  New England Rocks! (2015) 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 15, 2015** 

 01:00PM - 04:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street**  



 

 



 

####  **![new_england_rocks_lecture.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4986/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/hmnh/files/new_england_rocks_lecture.jpg?itok=zhUa9MPB)** 

#### **Family** Event

Explore rocks and minerals found here in New England and across North America. Learn how North America was formed and has changed over the past 600 million years through hands-on activities and segments from the new *NOVA*-WGBH series, *Making North America*.

Activities include:

**Fossils Millions of Years Old**  
Examine authentic New England fossils older than dinosaurs

**Science Can Dance!**  
Explore geology through creative movement and dance choreography with scientists from Gique

**Explore Sand**  
Investigate with magnets, magnifiers, and microscopes to see differences in sand from around New England

**Making North America video clips**  
View highlights from the new NOVA series airing now on PBS

**Bring a Mystery Mineral**  
Want to know more about a mineral from your collection? Ask the experts of the Boston Mineral Club!

**Curator’s Corner**  
Meet Dr. Raquel Alonso-Perez, curator of Harvard’s Mineralogical & Geological Museum, to view some of her favorite “behind-the-scenes” minerals (1:00–3:00 pm)

[View the New England Rocks poster](http://hmnh.harvard.edu/files/hmnh/files/ne_rocks_letter.pdf?m=1446665718)

Presented in collaboration with the Mineralogical & Geological Museum at Harvard University, the Boston Mineral Club, and *NOVA*, produced by PBS for WGBH Boston.

This program is located at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street.Free parking is available at the [52 Oxford Street Garage](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52%20Oxford%20St,%20Harvard%20University,%20Cambridge,%20MA%2002138/@42.3801645,-71.1153057,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e37740a3c56959:0xe17bf20973449411).Regular museum admission rates apply.

 

 



 

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