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 explored the simplicity and limitless uses of a cardboard box and then built arcade games out of cardboard and other recycled materials.
The core purpose of this project was for students to develop a connection to the natural world, and examine the role of pollinators, and re-plant a school garden.
Students investigated the role of bees in our ecosystem, the various ways bees are being threatened, and wrote and performed plays about some aspect of what they had learned.
Students worked in groups to research and define an aspect of blood physiology, blood banking, or blood-related diseases before creating multimedia art pieces using what they had learned.
First grade students learned about rainforests, ecosystems, agriculture, history, the economics of trade, and cooking by studying the history of chocolate.
Students learned about current trends in education and created their dream universities of the future.
December Sky combine the thrill of speed with the something that every young person dreams about—our future in the cosmos.
In this project, students learned about geometry and algebra by designing and creating their own paper lanterns.
Tenth grade students created podcasts related to California state ballot propositions.
Browse Projects
How does / can urban planning impact us as individuals and as a community?
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.
“Do you know what symbiosis is?” reads the first line of the book Evolving Ecologists, …
In This American Life: An Immigration Project, students ask “What challenges have immigrants faced throughout history?”
Students learned about current trends in education and created their dream universities of the future.
Students went on a three-day, 23-mile journey on foot from the Mexican border to the Cabrillo National Monument, capturing the details of the journey through photography and journaling, later to be synthesized into a book focused on dichotomies that students chose to highlight.