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

康涅狄格州科学博物馆（SMC）提出了一个三- 今年的展览项目称为环境状况。 这一具有成本效益的项目将为50多万公民提供服务 每年生产两个永久性展品- 2400平方英尺的SMC SMD的咆哮溪自然中心有400平方英尺， 八个巡回展览，主要用于康涅狄格州的 优先学校。 这些创新的展品高度利用 精确的雕刻浮雕地图， 图形和响应访问者的查询，通过一个 包含大量信息的研究口径数据库， 康涅狄格州的环境 彻底的评估将有助于 SMC设计的游客体验，使地图数据库 互动吸引人，易于使用和理解， 教育满意度。 国家认可的教师 工作坊让教育工作者掌握资料库 在用于巡回展览之前， 学校 巡回展览将支持以下目标： 康涅狄格州的NSF资助的全州倡议。 老师的 指南将促进部门调查， 学校的科学课。 这些展品将提供手- 关于环境保护专业工具的经验 研究，展示环境地图是如何制作的，教授基本的 环境科学的原则，并提供深入的 整个州的生态信息

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.