Students can learn from experienced community members, and in return those volunteers can have the joy of teaching something they believe is important. Florala High School Box 218 West 3rd Ave. Terry Youngblood Meek High School P.O.Box 168 Hwy. The first focuses on using the community as a teaching resource.
Traditional textbook driven science education is often especially irrelevant to rural students.
In these settings science is presented as an abstract set of facts that has little or no connection to a students day to day activities. Terms such as germination, fertilization, and photosynthesis become an integral part of students' vocabularies because they are made relevant through the work students do in these new venues for teaching and learning. Site maintained by The Program for Rural Services and Research at The University of Alabama.