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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In Storytellers of the Land, fifth graders read and wrote origin stories about animals and nature and teamed up with local conservation organizations to analyze thousands of trail camera photos of local wildlife.
Students wrote pieces of poetry and conducted interviews to be included in different field guides about the San Diego bay.
In Homeless in America: Exploring Homelessness and the People Who Seek to End it, student looked at the different ways that could be used to end homelessness in America.
Students will be performed as if they are at a Caribbean Carnival celebration in Trinidad and Tobago. Students studied dances from the African Diaspora.
Students in kinder, third grade, sixth grade, and high school collaborated with university researchers to learn about ants in their urban and natural environments.
Does My Vote Matter introduces students to the wide array of voting systems that exist and to various measures of fairness in those systems.
It was not your typical treasure map, but the students were excited nonetheless.
How do dissent, political activism and participatory democracy play a role in the struggle for freedom and equality?
Students planted positive seeds of school culture, both literally in the garden and figuratively in the hallways of our new shared school building.