Lessons & Activities Search
| Title | MIT Course |
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Type of Activity | Instructional Approach | Content Area | SDG |
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| Section 3: Aerosol and Clouds | Experimental Atmospheric Chemistry |
Lab handouts for Section 3 of experiemental atmospheric chemistry. |
Lab | Experiential Learning | Chemistry | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Paper Two | Anthropology of Biology |
Write a paper on one of the topics below. A strong paper will move beyond answering the question to advancing and defending an argument of your own about why the dynamics you discuss unfold as they do.
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Paper | Other | Biology | Varies |
| Research Paper | People and Other Animals |
A research paper relating to topics discussed in class will be the main assignment focus throughout the course [for people and other animals]. Undergraduate students must write a paper of a minimum of 12 pages, while graduate students have a minimum length of 25 pages. |
Paper | Other | People and Animals | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Project 3: Convection | Weather and Climate Laboratory |
In this project we enquire into the nature of the convective process. We will simulate convection in the laboratory using a tank of water with a heating pad at its base and study convection in the atmosphere using thermodynamic diagrams.
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Oral Presentation, Report | Inquiry-Based Learning | Climate | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Lab 5: Earthquakes Parts 1 and 2 | Introduction to Geology |
The purpose of today’s lab is to explore the relationship between the velocity of seismic waves and the properties of the materials they travel through (Temperature, pressure, stiffness, density…). We will focus on seismic shear-waves (S-waves), which are elastic vibrations in the direction perpendicular to their direction of propagation. |
Lab | Experiential Learning | Geology | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Homework 8 | Transport Processes in the Environment |
Problem set for the course Transport Processes in the Environment. |
Problem Set | Other | Environmental Transport Processes | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Project 2: Fronts | Weather and Climate Laboratory |
In this project, we inspect fronts crossing the country associated with day-to-day variations in the weather using real-time atmospheric observations. In the laboratory we create fronts by allowing salty (and hence dense) columns of water to collapse under rotation and gravity. We discover that the observed changes in winds and temperature across our laboratory and atmospheric fronts is consistent with Margule’s formula (a discrete form of the thermal wind equation) and see that the dynamical balance at work in the atmosphere is the same as in the density fronts created in the rotating tank.
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Oral Presentation, Report | Inquiry-Based Learning | Climate | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Assignment 3 (Theoretical Environmental Analysis) | Theoretical Environmental Analysis |
Problem set from the class Theoretical Environmental Analysis. |
Problem Set | Other | Biology, Earth Science | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| GFDI: Cloud Formation on Adiabatic Expansion | Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics |
Demonstration for the course Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics. |
Demonstration | Other | Fluid Dynamics | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Assignment 7 (Theoretical Environmental Analysis) | Theoretical Environmental Analysis |
Problem set from the class Theoretical Environmental Analysis. |
Problem Set | Other | Biology, Earth Science | SDG 15 - Life on Land |