Delaware River Festival
So excited about this year's Delaware River Festival! At our table, show off your creativity and create river murals with watercolors.
Events for March 28 - June 25, 2025 › Hands-On Science
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The Watershed is an Open Book
A Hands-On Early Literacy Program for 5-8 Year Olds and Their Families! Workshops with a seasonal theme to help build reading readiness using “teachable” moments in your own neighborhood. Great incentives for frequent attendance, such as backpacks loaded with things to help your child read, explore, and play in the outdoors! Partners: Gideon Elementary School […]
Exploring Our Urban Watershed – River Days Event
Get to know the Schuylkill River from a brand new perspective! In a program held outside the Fairmount Water Works, and on the water, participants will explore ways the native landscape and river waters served the Lenni Lenape people and continues to serve us today. Complete a scavenger hunt of native plants used today in […]
Exploring Our Urban Watershed
Join Fairmount Water Works and Schuylkill River Development Corporation in exploring the Schuylkill River in a program both on land and on the water! We start at Fairmount Water Works and move through 3 hands-on activities: creating a mural of the historic Schuylkill River, examining microscopic life in a drop of river water and engaging […]
Exploring Our Urban Watershed
Join Fairmount Water Works and Schuylkill River Development Corporation in exploring the Schuylkill River in a program both on land and on the water! We start at Fairmount Water Works and move through 3 hands-on activities: creating a mural of the historic Schuylkill River, examining microscopic life in a drop of river water and engaging […]
Watershed Wednesdays at the Fairmount Water Works
We will get to know the Schuylkill River by exploring various watershed topics through hands on activities, games and art projects. Suitable for ages 5 and up. Children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian. Advance registration required. Sign up for one session or sign up for them all! All sessions are 10am-11:30am. Email educator stacey.heffernan@phila.gov […]
Watershed Wednesdays at the Fairmount Water Works
We will get to know the Schuylkill River by exploring various watershed topics through hands on activities, games and art projects. Suitable for ages 5 and up. Children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian. Advance registration required. Sign up for one session or sign up for them all! All sessions are 10am-11:30am. Email educator stacey.heffernan@phila.gov […]