This stream study reflects the State of Maine Learning Results by demonstrating standard strands in the categories of Skills and Traits of Scientific Inquiry where students need to methodically plan, conduct, analyze data from, and communicate results of in-depth scientific investigations including experiments guided by a testable hypothesis, and in the strand of Systems where students apply an understanding of systems to explain and analyze man-made and natural phenomena in addition the Science, Technology, and Society strand where students describe the role of science and technology in creating and solving contemporary issues and challenges.

As rural community students or possibly like many school communities, students are generally thought of as passive recipients of knowledge, the challenge for students is to make the connection between learning in the classroom out of book or labs to apply these knowledge’s and skills to their real world to identify the connections to science in which the student will organize and structure the learning based on the data that is collected, by developing collaborative relationships with adults in the community, students will become part of solutions for their community. The communicating ideas, organizing the data and developing meaningful scientific relationships between the data and economic development will be a challenge.