Project-Based Learning at HTH
These projects are examples of the work that is done at all of the High Tech High Schools. It is our record of what we have done and how to get there. Teachers can utilize this to display what they have done with their students, and get ideas from others teachers. Students can show their parents and friends the work that they have done, and the community can see how project based learning enables students to do and learn. Please enjoy the projects and videos.
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What small scale systems are related to larger scale systems? In language and culture? In science?
Students documented their own physics experiments in order to fight gravity using kites, balloons, and other flying objects of their own creation.
6th grade students set out to explore the questions surrounding disability, using video gaming as both a point of common interest and a real-world engineering and technological challenge.
In This American Life: An Immigration Project, students ask “What challenges have immigrants faced throughout history?”
In Ampersand: The Student Journal of School & Work, students came together after working at their internships to create a yearbook of their experiences, so they could be shared with their peers.
Students ran and organized a Kickstarter campaign to write and film a documentary that covered the topic of gun violence and its effects in the United States.
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How can we improve our, and the generations to follow, well-being with the wisdom of indigenous people?
In Life By The Tide: Our Coastal Ecosystems, our students will conduct research about this ecosystem and the organisms that inhabit this region.
After learning that suicide was the second largest killer of young people, and the growing need for education about mental health, students partnered with families to discuss their loss of a loved one on camera for a student-run video and banner campaign.
Students worked in groups to research and define an aspect of blood physiology, blood banking, or blood-related diseases before creating multimedia art pieces using what they had learned.
In the project, Wow, It’s Cacao, students learned and reflected about the importance of chocolate in several cultures around the globe.
What have the History Books left out? How have our most influential leaders been misrepresented or not represented at all?
Students learned biology concepts and scientific methods through a real world challenge — growing food with no natural light, no gravity, and hardly any space.
Students ran a political campaign simulation and conducted extensive interviews with people from the community about societal issues so students could learn about these topics both on a macro-level and through personal experiences.
Uur students became familiar with stories of a number of creatures in crisis, thinking about the best ways inform the public and motivate action.