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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Kindergarten students create an inquiry-based project about the nature of play, and in the process transformed an unused piece of land into a new play area.
Students read plays by three Greek writers before adapting them into an onstage version following themes of genocide, war, refugees, and the treatment of women.
What are Earth’s biggest biological issues and how do they affect our local community?
In this student-created and student-run simulation, participants took on the roles of Syrian citizens forced to leave and seek refuge in another country.
In this project, students chose a “food philosophy” and kept a journal of all they ate for the eight weeks of their study. They interviewed family members about favorite recipes and their history, tried them out, and wrote a cookbook containing the best of them.
It was not your typical treasure map, but the students were excited nonetheless.
Why is it important to have access to books? How can we help our community get access to books?