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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How can we use science to grow a healthy and beautiful community garden?
How can students design an engaging and interactive activity for the Natural History Museum that children will find both fun and educational?
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.
Uur students became familiar with stories of a number of creatures in crisis, thinking about the best ways inform the public and motivate action.
In Staff Class to the Past: Time Travel Through U.S. History, students answered the question what would it be like to travel back in time and experience history as it unfolded?
Students created art pieces and accompanying posters inspired by the quote “If a staircase goes somewhere, it is craft; if it goes nowhere, it’s art.”
Students explored how people use parks to connect to themselves, each other, and to nature while also learning about the stars on trips to these parks.
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.
How can the programming of a large, complex piece of software be managed?
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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.
What does it mean to be a “survivor”? Why should we care about and respect the environment and each other?
Students learned how to design and build fun toys designed to meet a disabled child’s needs.
What small scale systems are related to larger scale systems? In language and culture? In science?
Students learned about properties of light and the effect it has on certain materials via experiments before writing shadow puppet plays.
Twelfth grade Environmental Science students discovered that growing food is not as easy as it first may seem.
What should the public know about drugs today? How can we inform them?
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.
50 high school juniors collaborated with a local musician and film director to create a music video for the song, “Bubbles In Space” by Mike Andrews.