Science Saturday - "Living La Vida Micro in the Schuylkill River"
2016-06-04 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-06-11 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-06-18 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-06-25 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Drop in every Saturday between 2-4 pm, and together, we’ll explore different aspects of our environment during fun and interactive sessions in our water lab.
You can see many living organisms that call the Schuylkill River home – e.g., ducks, fish, turtles, and aquatic plants. But there is a whole watery world you cannot see with the naked eye. Come and collect a water sample full of microscopic organisms and view them under the microscope. Learn to identify them and find out why they are so important to river ecology.

Science Saturday: "Put Your Dirt to Work"
2016-07-23 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-07-30 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Drop in every Saturday between 2-4 pm, and together, we’ll explore different aspects of our environment during fun and interactive sessions in our water lab.
What happens to the fall leaves, grass clippings, or weeds you pull from the garden? They don’t just disappear! Like all natural materials, they decompose. Composting is the practice of managing waste to be reborn as a soil enricher. Come and learn how to compost, and find out what sort of critters make the whole process happen.

Science Saturday: "The Greatest Flow on Earth: A Water Carnival"
2016-08-06 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-08-13 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-08-20 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-08-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Drop in every Saturday between 2-4 pm, and together, we’ll explore different aspects of our environment during fun and interactive sessions in our water lab.
Step right up and see the amazing surface tension! You will be polarized by this amazing molecule, H2O! Come and explore some of water’s many fascinating properties in fun lab activities.

Science Saturday: "Ecology Under Wraps: Ecosystems and Terrariums"
2016-09-03 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-09-10 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-09-17 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-09-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Drop in every Saturday between 2-4 pm, and together, we’ll explore different aspects of our environment during fun and interactive sessions in our water lab.
The Schuylkill River ecosystem is an interrelationship of water, earth, plants and animals. Learn about the ecology of the area around the Fairmount Water Works and build your own miniature ecosystem in a bottle. VISITORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO BRING THEIR OWN CONTAINER to create a terrarium in.

Coast Day 2016
2016-09-10 11:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Discover all that Pennsylvania’s coast has to boast at Pennsylvania Coast Day. This free festival will take place at Walnut Plaza (Columbus Avenue at Walnut Street) on Penn’s Landing on September 10, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Visitors to Pennsylvania Coast Day will enjoy:

Free boat rides and tours*
Free rowboating or swan pedal boating
Remote-controlled model ship races
Free T-shirts and prizes
Face painting
Arts and crafts
Exhibitors

Ride a free, round-trip shuttle to the Fairmount Water Works at the Schuylkill waterfront. Here, you can:

See live mussel hatchery demonstrations
Compete in the Philly Fun Fishing Fest early that morning;
Experience hands-on activities as a part of our Science Saturday program.
Explore interactive exhibits inside the historic Fairmount Water Works.

…and more.
*Free boat ride for the first 500 people.
Check back regularly for event updates!

Science Saturday: "Seeing Red (and Yellow and Orange) in the Fall"
2016-10-01 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-10-08 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-10-15 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-10-22 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-10-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Drop in every Saturday between 2-4 pm, and together, we’ll explore different aspects of our environment during fun and interactive sessions in our water lab.
Do you wonder why leaves are green in the spring and summer, but change to red, yellow and orange in the fall? Investigate the different colored pigments in leaves, identify different leaves, and perform an experiment to show how one color is really made up of many different colors.

Science Saturday: "Ganshewahanna: The Schuylkill River before the Europeans"
2016-11-05 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-11-12 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-11-19 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-11-26 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Drop in every Saturday between 2-4 pm, and together, we’ll explore different aspects of our environment during fun and interactive sessions in our water lab.
Native Americans are an important part of our Thanksgiving celebrations. Learn about the original residents of Philadelphia and their reliance on local rivers and streams. We will learn about their culture, lifestyle and diet and about the local environment thousands of years before European settlers arrived. You can weave a mat of natural materials like the Lenni Lenape did!

Setting the Thanksgiving Water Table
2016-11-26 10:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Water is part of everything we eat, drink, and use. Your traditional Thanksgiving recipes, like one for pumpkin pie, calls for little to no cups of water, but from the time the pumpkin starts growing in the pumpkin patch to the moment it reaches your dinner table the pie you consumed uses almost 234 gallons of water to make. If a pie uses that much water, to make, then how much water does it take to create the feast that we indulge in on Thanksgiving Day?
Join us at the Fairmount Water Works for our Thanksgiving holiday pop-up activity. All visitors are invited to discover the incredible amounts of water that it takes for our holiday meal staples to reach the Thanksgiving table. Visitors will have the opportunity to create a plate with their own holiday meal favorites and calculate the “water footprint” of their individual feast.

Science Saturday: "Cry(ology) Me a Frozen River: The Science of Ice and Snow"
2016-12-03 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-12-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Drop in every Saturday between 2-4 pm, and together, we’ll explore different aspects of our environment during fun and interactive sessions in our water lab.
Is it a fact that no two snowflakes are the same? How do they form? How many different forms of ice and snow are there? Head to the Water Works to investigate the properties of ice and snow. Learn about the special shape of snowflakes and about a unique type of ice that forms on our local rivers. Make your own “snow” – just add water!

Science Saturday: "Cry(ology) Me a Frozen River: The Science of Ice and Snow"
2016-12-17 14:00 - 16:00 | PA

Science Saturday - "Diatoms: Jewels of the River"
2017-01-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Drop in every Saturday between 2-4 pm, and together, we’ll explore different aspects of our environment during fun and interactive sessions in our water lab.
Art and science meet as you explore the colorful and wondrous microscopic world of water. Discover the complex and intricate beauty of these hidden single-celled algae called diatoms along with their contribution to water quality research.
Diatoms have a glass-like silica cell wall that consists of two halves that elegantly fit together. In the 19th century amateur scientists amused themselves by arranging them in intricate patterns, in the 20th century, famed woman ecologist Ruth Patrick pioneered the study of these small cells to study water pollution.

A Closer Look at Diatoms
2017-01-08 13:00 - 17:00 | PA
Come visit the Fairmount Water Works during our Sunday operating hours for a self-guided version of “Diatoms: Jewels of the River”. Through a lens, view these colorful and wonderfully complex hidden algae…
