Fairmount Water Works

Sunday Cinema: "Last Call at the Oasis"
2016-12-04 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a different movie every month. (Film selection subject to change.)
“Last Call at the Oasis”: A documentary on the world’s water crisis.

Science Saturday: "Cry(ology) Me a Frozen River: The Science of Ice and Snow"
2016-12-03 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!

Sunday Cinema: "Free Birds"
2016-11-27 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-27 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-20 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-20 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-13 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-13 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-06 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-11-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a different movie every month. (Film selection subject to change.)
“Free Birds”: Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history – and get turkey off the holiday menu for good.

Science Saturday: "Ganshewahanna: The Schuylkill River before the Europeans"
2016-11-26 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-11-19 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-11-12 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-11-05 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.

CLOSED - Thanksgiving Holiday
2016-11-24 10:00 - 17:00 | PA

Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry: Touch Points
2016-11-04 10:00 - 11:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Calling Moms, Dads, and/or Caregivers! Visit Fairmount Waters Works with your preschooler(s) for Week 5 of our Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry, 5-week program series!
Week 5’s theme is “Touch Points”, where we’ll utilize interactive water activities that involve our sense of touch!
Using water themes and river connection lessons, your preschooler(s), along with yourself, will have fun through sensory, movement, creative and generic play activities. These popular sessions fill quickly(!) and incorporate toddler/pre-k journaling for early school-based learning techniques.
To register, please visit: Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry

Sunday Cinema: "A Bug's Life"
2016-10-30 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-10-30 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-10-23 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-10-23 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-10-16 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-10-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a different movie every month. (Film selection subject to change.)
“A Bug’s Life”: A misfit ant, looking for “warriors” to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.

Science Saturday: "Seeing Red (and Yellow and Orange) in the Fall"
2016-10-29 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-10-22 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-10-15 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.

Family Tour w/ Let's Go Outdoors
2016-10-29 13:00 - 14:00, 2016-10-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Join Let’s Go Outdoors for a general family-friendly tour of the Fairmount Water Works!
Learn about amazing grounds outside of the historic site, including the Fishway Dam, then head inside for a guided orientation to “Water in our World” and watch a 15-minute film about the building’s important role in Philadelphia’s history. Let’s Go Outdoors inspires an appreciation for the outdoors through education and recreation programming, especially among people of color and those that live in city communities.
After the tour, stick around for our weekly Science Saturday activity that starts at 2pm.
The tour is FREE, but registration is required, as space is limited.

Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry: Follow Your Nose
2016-10-28 10:00 - 11:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Calling Moms, Dads, and/or Caregivers! Visit Fairmount Waters Works with your preschooler(s) for Week 4 of our Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry, 5-week program series!
Week 4’s theme is “Follow Your Nose”, where we’ll explore water using our developing sense of smell.
Using water themes and river connection lessons, your preschooler(s), along with yourself, will have fun through sensory, movement, creative and generic play activities. These popular sessions fill quickly(!) and incorporate toddler/pre-k journaling for early school-based learning techniques.
To register, please visit: Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry

Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry: Water Recipes
2016-10-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Calling Moms, Dads, and/or Caregivers! Visit Fairmount Waters Works with your preschooler(s) for Week 3 of our Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry, 5-week program series!
Week 3’s theme is “Water Recipes”. We’ll sip water and use our sense of taste!
Using water themes and river connection lessons, your preschooler(s), along with yourself, will have fun through sensory, movement, creative and generic play activities. These popular sessions fill quickly(!) and incorporate toddler/pre-k journaling for early school-based learning techniques.
To register, please visit: Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry
