This website features work from the completion of Phase 1 of the SCALES Project.

We are currently seeking partnerships for Phase 2.

Lessons & Activities Search

Type of Activity

SDGs

MIT Course

Title	MIT Course	Preview	Type of Activity	Instructional Approach	Content Area	SDG
Final Project	Data Storytelling Studio: Climate Change	Read the final project requirements. Think about what topic, datasets, and output technique you want to explore for your final project. This could be building on one of the sketches you did before, or starting something new.	Varies	Collaborative, Small Group Learning	Data Visualization	SDG 15 - Life on Land
Final Project	The Art and Science of Negotiation	The final project for class is a group project. It should, in the most general sense, explore in-depth an issue or problem in negotiation that interests you. As a starting point, you should be able to say what your point of departure is.	Paper	Collaborative, Small Group Learning	Negotiation	SDG 16 - Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
Final Project: Essay & Digital Communications Project	Energy, Environment, and Society: Global Politics, Technologies, And Ecologies of the Water-Energy-Food Crises	Choose a problem that is useful to show what you have learned in this class. Nexus approach? Social or political dimensions of technology? Social histories of institutions, policy entrepreneurs, or bilateral activists? socioecological impacts of production/consumption systems? Pay attention to what problem/theme/topic might be professionally useful for you in the future. Something that you can show you have researched in the past? Something that could serve as the first exploration for a future research or project?	Paper	Other	Energy, Environment, Society	SDG 7 - Affordable & Clean Energy
Final Report	D-Lab II: Design	Design reports give design engineers the chance to catalog the design process, describe how they came to the decisions they came to, and explain the rationale behind those decisions. As a team, write a 10–15 page report describing your project.	Report	Collaborative, Small Group Learning	Design	SDG 15 - Life on Land
Final Report	D-Lab: Energy	The purpose of the final report is to document your project so that community partners and/or future students interested in your work can understand it, avoid repetition, and make further progress. As a team, write a 12-15 page report describing your project.	Report	Other	Energy	SDG 7 - Affordable & Clean Energy
Final Research Paper	Environmental Conflict	Students are also responsible for a 20 page research paper exploring an environmental issue in which they are interested and which will be due in the final class.	Paper	Other	Anthropology	SDG 13 - Climate Action
Final Research Papers	Infrastructure and Energy Technology Challenges	Students completed four two-page reaction papers, one 25-page final research paper, and presented a summary of their final paper in class.	Paper	Other	Energy	SDG 7 - Affordable & Clean Energy
Final Research Presentation	Infrastructure and Energy Technology Challenges	Students completed four two-page reaction papers, one 25-page final research paper, and presented a summary of their final paper in class.	Presentation	Other	Energy	SDG 7 - Affordable & Clean Energy
Final Website	Solving Complex Problems	First, the class must create a content-rich web site to describe and justify its overall design.	Website	Collaborative, Small Group Learning	Energy	SDG 7 - Affordable & Clean Energy
Forecasting	D-Lab: Supply Chains	Problem set on forecasting from the course D-Lab: Supply Chains.	Problem Set	Other	Supply Chain	SDG 8 - Decent Work & Economic Growth

Pages