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Coyote Tracks Programs
4EEE’s Youth, Adult, and Family Programs
Based in Philadelphia
Earth Skills in the City
Offerings Include:
Homeschool Programs
Afterschool Programs
School Field Trips
In School Presentations
Adult Workshops
Family Camping Experiences
Birthday Parties
Coyote Tracks programs provide a time and place for children to meet nature in a hands-on way. Through storytelling and outdoor adventure, participants are guided through their introduction and exploration of Earth Skills—a blend of the ancient arts of tracking, wilderness survival, and nature awareness.
These fun and interactive programs aim to nurture each participant’s true sense of belonging here on the Earth, while imparting self confidence, resilience, and ecological awareness into their personal development.
These programs occur 100% outdoors rain, snow, or shine, and allow for young people to cultivate skillsets that allow for a meaningful and lasting relationship between themselves, their communities, and the more-than-human world.
“The most rewarding moments of this program for me as a parent are when I reconnect with my kids afterwards. They are dirty, smelling of the woods and camp fire, and oftentimes completely exhilarated from the adventures they had. A perfect snapshot of the childhood I desire for them. The experience is unparalleled and, in my opinion, the most healthy and beneficial opportunity available to my kids! “ — Coyote Tracks Afterschool Parent
About the Wissahickon…
Within the ancestral homelands of the Lenape Peoples, The Wissahickon Valley Park is currently managed by Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, and is additionally uplifted by many local ‘Friends’ groups organizations; including the Friends of the Wissahickon, the Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers, and others. This 2,024-acre of protected urban wilderness holds over 50 miles of trails that wind through a wooded gorge formed by the Wissahickon Creek, which provides drinking water to one in three Philadelphians. Learn more..
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Current Programs
Youth Programs:
Fall Sessions
Homeschool (Fall) - September 3rd through Dec 17th
(No Program week of 11/24
Afterschool (Early Fall) - September 2nd through October 20th
Coyote Tracks Afterschool Program (Early Fall) | Tuesdays | 4pm - 6pm | Ages 8-12
Coyote Tracks Homeschool Program (Fall) | Wednesdays | 10am - 2pm | Ages 8-12
Coyote Tracks Afterschool - Tuesdays
Tuesdays | 4pm - 6pm
Ages 8-12
@ Wissahickon Environmental Center
Coyote Tracks Homeschool
Wednesdays | 10am - 2pm
Ages 8-12
@ Historic Rittenhouse Town
Teen, Family & Adult Programs:
Meet the Philly Crew
4 Elements Earth Education brings the arts of wilderness survival to life through outdoor adventure, storytelling, and hands-on development of Earth skills.
Our Instructors have a variety of skills and experience as they guide youth towards nature's teachings. We are constantly "role-modeling" respect with the natural world and with each other.
Program Locations
Wissahickon Environmental Center
A quiet area on a hill called the ‘Tree House’, at the outermost boundary of Philadelphia city limits. Steep, rocky hills and access to forests, meadows and the Wissahickon Creek, this area welcomes our participants to experience the variety of Nature’s expressions in a convenient location. There are so many activities and skills to be learned and experienced here: hiding games in the forest (awareness), admiring milkweed in the meadow (identifying) and meeting the finned ones in the Creek (connecting). We often end our time together gathered in front of a magnificent fire, which shares its gifts of warmth and light with us during the cold and dark times we experience at our afterschool programs in the winter months!
Surrounding neighborhoods include: Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy, Lafayette Hill, Flourtown, Upper Roxborough/Andorra, and Wyndmoor.
Public Transportation: SEPTA Bus 27-Plymouth Meeting Mall
Blue Bell Park
Blue Bell Park epitomizes Philadelphia’s balance of urban and wild! Just past the dogs running around the open field, this location hosts a treasure trove of wildlife habitats and experiences to be explored. Sitting atop a knoll that drops down to the Monoshone Creek in the east and the Wissahickon Creek in the west, Blue Bell’s offers diverse forests and impressively established understory habitats that rival any other in the state. In these unique features you will experience: deer walking almost within arm reach, racoon families peeking down from holes in the tree, chipmunks scurrying across your feet, and hawks perching powerfully just overhead. This program location offers superior accessibility from many local neighborhoods.
Surrounding neighborhoods include: Germantown, East Falls, Roxborough, Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill, Tulpohocken, Manayunk.
Public Transportation: SEPTA Bus 65/Germantown-Cheltenham
Historic Rittenhouse Town
Just down the hill from Blue Bell Park lies Historic Rittenhouse Town. This quaint, “town-like” area operated as a manufacturing hub for papermaking in the 17th century. A nonprofit organization that began as the Friends of Historic RittenhouseTown in 1983, is committed to the site’s preservation through research, restoration and high-quality educational programming.
Boasting a Magnolia grove, Wissahickon Creek, Monoshone Creek, Forbidden Drive, and Paper Trail Cafe, there’s lots of accessibility with this centralized area of the park.
Surrounding neighborhoods include: Germantown, Roxborough, Manayunk, Tulpohoken, East Falls, Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill, and just a skip to Downtown Philly.
Public Transportation: SEPTA Bus 65/Germantown-Chelten
Contact us.
info@4eee.org
(530) 265-2036
Mailing Address:
3824 Lauriston Street
Philadelphia, PA 19128
