# Nature Nights: Rodents at Brookside Nature Center

> Event for families in the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria area (DC / VA / MD / WV). Times are Eastern Time.

- When: Fri, Nov 13 · 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
- Where: Brookside Nature Center, 1400 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton, MD 20902
- Ages: Ages 7 and up (adult must be registered with child)
- Price: $10.00
- Organizer: Montgomery Parks (M-NCPPC)
- Official page: https://montgomeryparks.org/events/nature-nights-nature-nights-rodents/
- Last checked: Sat, Oct 24

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## About

A two-hour Friday-evening program for children 7 and up with a registered adult at Brookside Nature Center in Wheaton. Through games and interactive activities, families learn what makes squirrels, chipmunks, groundhogs, mice and rats such good survivors, and talk about nature-based ways to keep them out of houses and attics as the weather cools. Children are asked to bring a rodent story to share. It is mostly indoors, and there are no live rodents in the program.

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