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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Students learned about properties of light and the effect it has on certain materials via experiments before writing shadow puppet plays.
Students wrote pieces of poetry and conducted interviews to be included in different field guides about the San Diego bay.
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.
The evolution of art in Western civilization is an epic journey, a mirror to humanity’s past from its ancient roots.
Does My Vote Matter introduces students to the wide array of voting systems that exist and to various measures of fairness in those systems.
How are simple machines and motorized mechanisms used to provide entertainment in the form of carnival rides?
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.
This project allowed students to explore methods of data collection, analysis, and research into public health at a local and global level
Students decided to test the quality of San Diego’s coastal waters and produce media in multiple formats to inform the public about what they discovered.