Community Resources

The most commonly used for effective teaching of agricultural science in this
category includes field trips or excursion-visit. This community resources
comprises of
people, place, things and materials which are used in educating students.
Instructional
programs which include, community resources are enriched and learning, becomes more
relevant and meaningful to students. They provide excellent opportunities to
improving
communication between the school and the people in the community and good public
relation is established (Agun, 1982).
Resource places according to Ajayi & Salami (1999) required a movement out of
the class or school premises to make visits. This is meant to supply additional
information on learning experiences to that acquired in the classroom environment.
Examples of these places are fish pond, dams and irrigation schemes, market place,
parks, industrial establishments, game reserves, agricultural sites or agricultural
extension
service centres etc. Such visits are educationally motivated with distinct
instructional
goals. This may also require the use of resource person at such sites to take up
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explanations of their functions for their existence especially when studying farm
machinery and implements