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 are things different when you cross the U.S.-Mexico border and why?
December Sky combine the thrill of speed with the something that every young person dreams about—our future in the cosmos.
How has my neighborhood taken shape over the years?
Students learned biology concepts and scientific methods through a real world challenge — growing food with no natural light, no gravity, and hardly any space.
Why is it important to have access to books? How can we help our community get access to books?
How can we celebrate 100 years of the “Golden Wings”?
Eleventh graders at HTHNC partnered with nonprofit organizations to support various causes in our local community.
Students explored how people use parks to connect to themselves, each other, and to nature while also learning about the stars on trips to these parks.
9th grade students had the opportunity to explore themselves through a variety of artistic exercises.