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 can we improve our, and the generations to follow, well-being with the wisdom of indigenous people?
In Ebola: Going Viral, our objective is to pose solutions to the Ebola outbreak in the United States by studying other infectious diseases.
Students will become historians as they research the life of a “new American.”
This project allowed students to explore methods of data collection, analysis, and research into public health at a local and global level
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.
Students will study the history and influence of maritume culture.
Students melded art, physics, math, and elements of design and engineering to build a rolling ball structure called Kinetic Coasters.
Students made their own kinetic sculptures inspired by artist Rubin Margolin, who makes wave generating machines.
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.