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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Why is it important to live in harmony with native species?
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.
The core purpose of this project was for students to develop a connection to the natural world, and examine the role of pollinators, and re-plant a school garden.
Students played a game called MUN Trade War, where they used math to model economic and military avenues of international engagement.
Students melded art, physics, math, and elements of design and engineering to build a rolling ball structure called Kinetic Coasters.
Students will become historians as they research the life of a “new American.”
How do dissent, political activism and participatory democracy play a role in the struggle for freedom and equality?
In Operation: Protect San Diego 2.0, students examined “What can the average San Diego citizen do to protect our local environment and its inhabitants?”