The MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) supports advances in election science by collecting, analyzing, and sharing core data and findings. The lab also aims to build relationships with election officials and others to help apply new scientific research to the practice of democracy in the United States.
By applying scientific principles to how elections are studied and administered, MEDSL aims to improve the democratic experience for all U.S. voters.
The MIT Election Lab is a founding partner in the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project, which was developed to ensure that the 2020 election can proceed with integrity, safety, and equal access. The project aims to do this by bringing together academics, civic organizations, election administrators, and election administration experts to assess and promote best practices.

The MIT Governance Lab (MIT GOV/LAB) is an applied research group and ideas incubator that aims to improve democracy and governance by changing practice around corruption, government accountability, and citizen voice. Our model combines behavioral political science, experimental social science, design thinking, and evaluation to iterate on governance solutions that support people’s ability to hold the government to account. 
We partner with in-country practitioners, including government, civil society, and social enterprises, at every stage of the research and learning process, from theory building to theory testing, to critical reflections and adaptations in real time, with the goal of contributing to a solid evidence base to strengthen the overall field of practice for participatory governance. 
To learn more about our work, check out our latest updates, tools, guides, and other resources, as well as published research, or be in touch mitgovlab@mit.edu.

The MIT Prison Education Initiative (PEI) hosted this non-credit January IAP course to give the MIT community an opportunity to engage in discussions about mass incarceration and criminal justice reform. The Independent Activities Period (IAP) is a special four week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

Sloan’s Teaching Resources Library provides open access to case studies and management simulations for management educators and students worldwide. This collection of teaching materials and games focuses on areas in which Sloan’s innovative research and teaching are on the cutting edge, including action learning, entrepreneurship, leadership and ethics, operations management, strategy, sustainability, and system dynamics.
Formerly known as LearningEdge, and MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR).
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One of a suite of online climate interactive simulations, this Greenhouse Gas Simulator uses the bathtub model to demonstrate how atmospheric concentrations of CO2 will continue to rise unless they are lowered to match the amount of CO2 that can be removed through natural processes.

The MIT Nuclear Weapons Education Project aims to teach individuals, particularly those who grew up after the end of the Cold War, about what nuclear weapons are and their effects on the world. The project website provides materials for lectures or discussions at introductory course levels.

This course was designed to educate students about how nuclear weapons came into being, the physics of these weapons, how they are structured, how they have evolved over the past several decades, efforts to control them and limit the threats that they represent, and what the possibilities for the future are. Many people in our country and other countries are not aware of what an existential threat nuclear weapons represent, and this lack of awareness is an important part of the overall threat. 
The course was taught by an MIT Iterdisciplinary team coordinated by Robert P. Redwine, Professor of Physics Emeritus.  The full list of instructors is listed on the course page.

The Technical Services Group at MIT’s Department of Physics provides technical and teaching support for undergraduate courses at MIT. These brief videos of physics demos display subtle physics concepts ranging from electromagnetism, to kinematics, to optics. 
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In this lesson, through various examples and activities, exponential growth and polynomial growth are compared to develop an insight about how quickly the number can grow or decay in exponentials. A basic knowledge of scientific notation, plotting graphs and finding intersection of two functions is assumed.

RAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education) is a new MIT-wide initiative headquartered in the MIT Media Lab and in collaboration with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MIT Open Learning. MIT researchers continually develop curriculum modules and associated teaching materials that are available to all K-12 educators for free under a Creative Commons license.

This project looks to combine the legacies of these three titans of American history, including Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt, to develop policy priorities and an action plan that will enable us to move beyond the false choice of economic growth or environmental security.

The Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR) program at MIT seeks to bridge the divide between scientific research and the classroom. Understanding and applying research methods in the classroom setting can be challenging due to time constraints and the need for advanced equipment and facilities. The multidisciplinary STAR team collaborates with faculty from MIT and other educational institutions to design software exploring core scientific research concepts. The goal of STAR is to develop innovative and intuitive teaching tools for classroom use.
All of the STAR educational tools are freely available. To complement the educational software, the STAR website contains curriculum components/modules which can facilitate the use of STAR educational tools in a variety of educational settings. Students, teachers, and professors should feel welcome to download software and curriculum modules for their own use.
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This video is meant to be a fun, hands-on session that gets students to think hard about how machines work. It teaches them the connection between the geometry that they study and the kinematics that engineers use -- explaining that kinematics is simply geometry in motion. In this lesson, geometry will be used in a way that students are not used to. Materials necessary for the hands-on activities include two options: pegboard, nails/screws and a small saw; or colored construction paper, thumbtacks and scissors. Some in-class activities for the breaks between the video segments include: exploring the role of geometry in a slider-crank mechanism; determining at which point to locate a joint or bearing in a mechanism; recognizing useful mechanisms in the students' communities that employ the same guided motion they have been studying.

[The author] asked immigrants from 28 countries why they're serving in the U.S. military — and it's not primarily to gain citizenship.