Environmental Science Educational Resources for the Climatron Tropical Conservatory

密苏里州植物园建议改善其计划， 通过大规模翻修 Climatron是一个公共温室， 热带雨林的植物标本。 目的是 提高公众对环境科学的认识，重点是 受到严重威胁的热带生物群落 沿着 展品也将全面修订图尔斯，课程， 教学包和教师培训， 热带生态学或使用气候管作为教学资源。 资金 来自NSF的资金将支持三年的两年工资的一部分， 教育部门员工将投入50%的时间 开发用于气候监测仪的辅助解释， 五个科学展品中的四个的制作费用， 其他新的解释符号。 MBG将承担所有剩余费用 从其运营和竞选预算的组合。

The Missouri Botanical Garden proposes to improve its program of informal environmental education through major renovation of the exhibits in its Climatron, a public conservatory that features displays on plant specimens of the tropical rain forests. The purpose is to increase public literacy in environmental science, with the focus on severely threatened tropical biomes. Along with renovation of the exhibits there also will be full revision of tours, courses, instructional packages and teacher training where they relate to tropical ecology or use the Climatron as a teaching resource. Funding from the NSF will support portions of two years of salaries for three Education Division staff who will devote 50% of their time to developing adjunct interpretation for use in the Climatron, for production costs of four of the five science exhibits, and for all other new interpretive signs. The MBG will assume all remaining costs from a combination of its operating and campaign budgets.