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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Students created an art and music exhibition which explained the math concepts behind the trajectory of objects.
In Reading Buddies: the Children’s Literature Project, 11th graders were each partnered with an elementary student as a “reading buddy” to help them grow as a reader and write their own stories.
First grade students learned about rainforests, ecosystems, agriculture, history, the economics of trade, and cooking by studying the history of chocolate.
In Storytellers of the Land, fifth graders read and wrote origin stories about animals and nature and teamed up with local conservation organizations to analyze thousands of trail camera photos of local wildlife.
Students made their own kinetic sculptures inspired by artist Rubin Margolin, who makes wave generating machines.
Students in the Wicked Soap Company use the engineering design process to make and then sell amazing soap.
How can we use science to grow a healthy and beautiful community garden?
Students built weather balloons and rockets in order to learn more about Astro-photography and Earth Science in an attempt to start their own HTH NASA.