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MIT Course | Preview | Type of Activity | Instructional Approach | Content Area | SDG |
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| Your Site through Time | The Once and Future City |
This is the third part of a four-part, semester-long project. The first part consisted of finding a site; the second, to find evidence of its environmental history and ongoing natural processes. Now the task is to trace changes on your site over time by comparing its character at several points in time, using maps. You may find different kinds of changes: Land use, density of settlement, additions to buildings, ownership, transportation. The types of sources you will find helpful are historical maps, especially nineteenth and twentieth-century atlases, and may also include plans, prints, and photographs. |
Paper | Place-Based Learning | Urban Studies | SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities & Communities |
| Your Site and Natural Processes | The Once and Future City |
This is the second part of a four-part, semester-long project. The first part consisted of finding a site. Now the task is to find evidence on your site of its environmental history and ongoing natural processes. The objective, through the examination of your site and its context, is to explore how natural processes shape cities.
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Paper | Place-Based Learning | Urban Studies | SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities & Communities |
| Written Assignments 1 and 2: Cheap Meat | Food, Culture & Politics |
Essay part one for people culture and politics. |
Paper | Other | Food | SDG 2 - Zero Hunger |
| Written Assignments | Modeling Environmental Complexity |
Each student will be responsible for two short papers on the material from the two units not included in his/her presentation. For example, if a student makes a presentation on metallurgy, the two papers will be on glass and rubber; if the presentation is on rubber processing, the papers will be on metallurgy and glass. |
Paper | Other | Material Science | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Written Assignment 4: Food Memory, Revisited | Food, Culture & Politics |
Short paper as part four of this assignment. |
Paper | Other | Food | SDG 2 - Zero Hunger |
| Written Assignment 3: Food Memory | Food, Culture & Politics |
Essay for part three of Food Culture and Politics. |
Paper | Other | Food | SDG 2 - Zero Hunger |
| Workshop: Writing Science and Writing Science (cont.) | Science Communication: A Practical Guide |
Revise your one-page written piece to include the elements you recently learned.
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Paper | Other | Communication | SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure |
| William Cronon's "The Trouble with Wilderness; or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" | Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues |
Select one or two paragraphs from Cronon’s essay and examine the full range of connections to one other reading from our syllabus. Your own commentary should be 200-300 words long. Be sure to include textual evidence from “The Trouble with Wilderness” and the other work that you consider in your commentary
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Paper | Other | Writing | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Wiki Design Notebook | D-Lab: Energy |
Each week, your team should update your team’s wiki page. If you do a great job documenting everything, it will make your final report much, MUCH easier to write. The wiki should include key documents (project specs, etc.), an ever-changing schedule, photos from experiments, scans of best brainstormed ideas, etc. It should also contain a weekly report on your communications with your community partner (you should do everything in your power — regular emails and/or phone calls to stay in touch) so that they are up to date on your progress and can offer feedback. |
Website | Other | Energy | SDG 7 - Affordable & Clean Energy |
| Wheelchairs and Cook Stoves Assessment | D-Lab II: Design |
List the design features of each of the wheelchairs and cook stoves shown below that were driven by each of the ‘bilities that we discussed in class. Refer to the reading assignments for additional information on the materials, techniques and processes used in the manufacture of both wheelchairs and cook stoves. On a separate page, discuss what you think were the major drivers of each design, and what trade-offs were made. |
Problem Set | Other | Design | SDG 15 - Life on Land |