Educational Information

As stated before, we here at PRA have one goal in mind - providing you safe clean drinking water. Many times our answers to customer's questions either appear too simple or too technical. One of our goals for the website is to not only inform you about PRA, but also educate you about water.

Teacher Resources

The Perkasie Regional Authority recognizes that education plays a vital role in the promotion of sound water supply and environmental stewardship.  For the educators in our community, we have provided the materials below that can assist you in the classroom.  The following are a wide variety of water experiments that teachers can use in the classroom.  The experiments are broken down by grade level and topic.

Grades K - 2

• Aquifer in a Cup
• Blue Thumb Marathon
• Fill it Up - Water Storage Tanks
• Hung Up on Water Conservation
• It's Time to Conserve
• Oceans and Ponds
• Oh Well - How We Get Water from the Ground
• Rain Water Runoff
• Settling In - Sedimentation
• Simple Water Science
• So Much Water, So Little to Drink
• The Bad Guys vs The Good Guys

Grades 3 - 5

• A Salt Water - Y World
• Cap a Chemical
• Coastal Food Web
• Get the Salt Out
• Planning Land Use
• Porosity & Permeability - Down & Dirty
• Water Wise Landscaping
• Water, Water Everywhere
• Wetland in a Bottle
• What a Water Job 

Grades 6 - 8

• A Global View of the Wet Earth
• Biography of a River
• Build Your Own Aquifer
• Building a Model Aquifer
• Home Recycling of Graywater
• Role of Plants in Water Filtration
• Turbidity
• Water Are You Doing About This?
• Water Careers
• Water Contamination Experiment
• Water Works
• What is Groundwater Pollution Doing to the Neighborhood?
• What is in Source Water
• What's the Level?

 Grades 9 - 12

• Carbon Treatment for Water Pollution Control
• Chlorination for Disinfection
• Clean Clothes - Clean Environment
• Groundwater - Cleaning Up
• How Clean is Clean
• How Hard is Hard Water
• Source Water Protection - Surface Water Sources
• The Hydrologic (Water) Cycle
• Tracking Pollution - A Hazardous Whodunnit
• Water Chemistry Checkup
• Water Contamination
• Water Filtration
• Wetlands, USA - More Than Swamps
• What's in a Bottle of Water  

Teaching Videos

We have provided an interactive tour that you can take with your children or class that is designed to give you an up close look at how water systems operate.  This interactive tour is produced by The American Water Works Association (AWWA). The content on this movie is suitable for kids from 4th grade on to their parents.

We hope you enjoy these programs and keep checking back for new items.