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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Students created an art and music exhibition which explained the math concepts behind the trajectory of objects.
Students created owl boxes for predatory birds to live in near a new building on the HTHCV campus, to learn about the local environment and help deal with the school’s rodent problem.
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.
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.
Students learned about rotational volumes by cutting shapes into books and rotating the pages around the axis of the book spine to create a three dimensional shape.
We will use the lucha libre metaphor to find ways of tackling social problems that are prevalent both in Latin America and in our own community.
We may look different, but underneath we are all the same. No matter what you look like, humans are a family.
Students planted positive seeds of school culture, both literally in the garden and figuratively in the hallways of our new shared school building.
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Through the exploration of Social Emotional Learning, First Graders will learn to identify their feelings and which emotions they are grappling with.
In 1st Grade Community Magazine, questions like “What makes up a community?” and “What is in the immediate community of our school?” are explored.
In this project students will be asked to be: Builders/unbuilders, authors, editors, artists, poets, athletes.
How are simple machines and motorized mechanisms used to provide entertainment in the form of carnival rides?
Students ran a political campaign simulation and conducted extensive interviews with people from the community about societal issues so students could learn about these topics both on a macro-level and through personal experiences.
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.
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.
What impact can I have to positively influence my community?