State of The Environment: Understanding Connecticut's Environment Through Interactive Map

康涅狄格州科学博物馆(SMC)提出了一个为期三年的展览项目，名为环境状况。这个具有成本效益的项目每年将通过制作两个永久性展品--SMC的2400 SF和SMD咆哮溪自然中心的400 SF--以及主要用于康涅狄格州重点学校的8个巡回展品，为超过500,000名公民提供服务。这些创新的展品使用高精度的雕塑地形图，由激光图形制作动画，并通过包含康涅狄格州环境的大量信息的研究口径数据库响应参观者的查询。彻底的评估将帮助SMC设计访问者体验，使地图数据库交互具有吸引力，易于使用和理解，并在教育上令人满意。国家认可的教师研讨会将使教育工作者在将其用于学校巡回展览之前，牢牢掌握数据库的能力。巡回展览将支持康涅狄格州国家科学基金会资助的全州倡议的目标。教师指南将促进对高中理科课程的深入调查。这些展品将用专业的环境研究工具提供实践经验，展示环境地图是如何制作的，教授环境科学的基本原理，并提供关于整个州生态的深入信息。

The Science Museum of Connecticut (SMC) proposes a three- year exhibit project called The State of the Environment. This cost-effective project will serve over 500,000 citizens a year by producing two permanent exhibits - 2400 sf for SMC and 400 sf for SMD's Roaring Brook Nature Center -- and eight traveling exhibits for use primarily in connecticut's Priority schools. These innovative exhibits use highly accurate sculptural relief maps which are animated by laser graphics and responsive to visitor inquiries through a research-calibre database containing vast information on Connecticut's environment. Thorough evaluation will help SMC design visitor experiences that make map-database interaction attractive, easy to use and understand, and educationally satisfying. State accredited teacher workshops will give educators a firm grasp of database capabilities prior to its use in the traveling exhibits for schools. Traveling exhibits will support goals in Connecticut's NSF-funded Statewide Initiative. Teacher's Guides will facilitate in-dept investigations for high school science lessons. These exhibits will provide hands- on experiences with professional tools for environmental research, show how environmental maps are made, teach basic principles of environmental science, and provide-in-depth information about the ecology of an entire state.