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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What are the motives, practices & philosophies that characterize humans’ production of food & water?
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 worked in groups to research and define an aspect of blood physiology, blood banking, or blood-related diseases before creating multimedia art pieces using what they had learned.
Students made their own kinetic sculptures inspired by artist Rubin Margolin, who makes wave generating machines.
Why is it important to have access to books? How can we help our community get access to books?
To explore our personal relationship with technology and unpack the complex role it plays in our existence.
Students played a game called MUN Trade War, where they used math to model economic and military avenues of international engagement.
What issues and problems does San Diego and its people face? How can I use empathy and compassion to make a positive difference in my community?
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.