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Title | MIT Course | Preview | Type of Activity | Instructional Approach | Content Area | SDG |
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Drawdown | D-Lab: Water Climate Change and Health |
Browse the Drawdown solutions and pick one that interests you. Come prepared to class to present that solution, either informally (sitting at your seat and just talking) or formally (preparing some slides for class presentation, and/or some related material you have dug up on that solution). Your presentation might take 5 minutes or so. |
Presentation | Inquiry-Based Learning | Varies | SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals |
Dream Project Exercise | D-Lab: Water Climate Change and Health |
Take an index card, and prepare a short summary. Step 1 (on side 1 of the index card): Describe your dream project (drawing from any combo of disciplines, any scale, however far-fetched or down-to-earth).
If you don’t have a dream project yet, describe a sector or geographical area in which you would like to be focused. Step 2 (on side 2 of the index card): Get yourself recruited into a Dream Team! What are your special gifts?
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Brainstorm | Inquiry-Based Learning | Varies | SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals |
Dream Project/Term Project Proposal | D-Lab: Water Climate Change and Health |
The proposal describes your dream project. The proposal is your opportunity to detail the scope of your project, its context, what you need to make this happen, your timeline and milestones, who are your teammates if you have teammates, or if you are planning to proceed individually. In the first deliverable, it does not need to be a fully formed proposal but a rough first draft. There’s no specific page requirement, but 4 to 8 pages of text total, or perhaps 10+ PowerPoint slides might be a good length. |
Proposal | Inquiry-Based Learning | Varies | SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals |
Drowned Out | D-Lab I: Development |
If you can't make it to the evening film screening, view DVD of Drowned Out on your own time prior to class on Ses #25. |
Watch Movie | Place-Based Learning | Development | SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure |
Embodied Energy Evaluation | D-Lab II: Design |
Embodied Energy Evaluation |
Lab | Collaborative, Small Group Learning | Design | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
Emission temperatures and greenhouse models | Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics |
Problem sets for the Activity: Emission temperatures and greenhouse models |
Problem Set | Other | Fluid Dynamics | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
Energy Explorations (Assignment 7) | Environmental Technologies in Buildings |
Now that you have a well daylit, visually comfortable building with an electric lighting design in place, we are turning our attention towards evaluating and improving the energy performance of your design. In this assignment you will first create a baseline energy model of your building and then explore various energy updates. |
Modeling/Simulation | Experiential Learning | Architecture | SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities & Communities |
Environmental Assessment | Introduction to Environmental Policy and Planning |
Most environmental planners presume that policy decisions regarding the use of natural resources and patterns of development can be enhanced through the application of various analytical tools.
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Paper | Other | Urban Studies | SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities & Communities |
Environmental Ethics | Introduction to Environmental Policy and Planning |
Traditionally economists have argued that humans are utility maximizers, although some behavioral economists and social psychologists have recently raised questions about this. With this in mind, please write a paper addressing the following questions. |
Paper | Other | Urban Studies | SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities & Communities |
Essay | Geobiology |
What criteria do you think are important for assessing the habitability of a planetary body? Illustrate with reference to current or past missions in our solar system. or What is meant by the concept of Galactic Habitable Zone. Illustrate with reference to a current mission that looks outside our solar system. |
Paper | Other | Biology | SDG 15 - Life on Land |