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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With this project, we aimed to dive into the powerful intersection of skateboarding and mental health, connecting both veterans and teens through a shared journey of self-discovery and support.
Students will be performed as if they are at a Caribbean Carnival celebration in Trinidad and Tobago. Students studied dances from the African Diaspora.
In the project, Wow, It’s Cacao, students learned and reflected about the importance of chocolate in several cultures around the globe.
4th graders at HTeCV raised awareness about the pollution problem they noticed on campus and put solutions into action to reduce waste.
Through the exploration of Social Emotional Learning, First Graders will learn to identify their feelings and which emotions they are grappling with.
Rise Up! A Changemaker Project built upon The Roots to Rise fall project when students explored the power of their own roots and stories, and a change they hope to create in their future.
We may look different, but underneath we are all the same. No matter what you look like, humans are a family.
Through planning and reflecting on our own play, we have been working to answer our essential question, “What is the power of play?”
Students critically examined the criminal justice system in the US by working with the California Innocence Project (CIP) to analyze actual clients’ case files and recommend to CIP whether or not to take the case.
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In Finding Dory: Saving the Coral Reefs Through Captive Breeding, students searched to see how can scientists find creative ways to protect coral reef systems.
Students read WWII novels, created plays based on them, and researched how chemistry has had an impact on warfare throughout the ages.
Students played a game called MUN Trade War, where they used math to model economic and military avenues of international engagement.
Fourth grade teachers designed a project for students to look at history through the lens of sports and to explore how sports build and shape communities.
Students created art pieces and accompanying posters inspired by the quote “If a staircase goes somewhere, it is craft; if it goes nowhere, it’s art.”
How can we improve our, and the generations to follow, well-being with the wisdom of indigenous people?
In Free Your Mind: The Ultimate Escape Room, students designed escape rooms that would challenge participants’ implicit bias by incorporating content related to attitudes about age, race, gender, sexuality, and mental health in each escape room puzzle.
Students read about and researched issues related to agriculture and biology before working in groups to create large mobile planters for kindergarteners to learn from.
Teachers devised a project to stimulate students to think critically about their communities. They created conceptual maps of the city to communicate a message they cared about.