Alabama News Center — Nature’s wonder-book: Alabama State Parks educate and inspire

By: Jeff Emerson

When about 100 first graders from Brooks Elementary School in Lauderdale County excitedly stepped off three yellow school buses for an educational program at Joe Wheeler State Park in early May, they probably weren’t thinking about Teddy Roosevelt, but they were about to get an up-close experience with what America’s 26th president called “the wonder-book of nature.”

Very close.

As the students took part in an education session about connecting with nature by using their senses called “Sounds, Sights and Smells,” they knelt on the grass and lowered their faces just inches from the ground.

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