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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Through planning and reflecting on our own play, we have been working to answer our essential question, “What is the power of play?”
Students went on a three-day, 23-mile journey on foot from the Mexican border to the Cabrillo National Monument, capturing the details of the journey through photography and journaling, later to be synthesized into a book focused on dichotomies that students chose to highlight.
What impact can I have to positively influence my community?
Through the exploration of Social Emotional Learning, First Graders will learn to identify their feelings and which emotions they are grappling with.
In Newspaper Plays: Year In Review!, students asked “How can I use my voice and body to tell more effective stories?”
Students will become historians as they research the life of a “new American.”
In Humans of HTH: The Art and Science of a Meaningful Life, students in English and Physics will study how photography can capture meaningful images.
To explore our personal relationship with technology and unpack the complex role it plays in our existence.
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.