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.
Browse Projects
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
What are Earth’s biggest biological issues and how do they affect our local community?
What impact can I have to positively influence my community?
9th grade students had the opportunity to explore themselves through a variety of artistic exercises.
Twelfth grade Environmental Science students discovered that growing food is not as easy as it first may seem.
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.
Eleventh graders at HTHNC partnered with nonprofit organizations to support various causes in our local community.
In Homeless in America: Exploring Homelessness and the People Who Seek to End it, student looked at the different ways that could be used to end homelessness in America.
In Humans of HTH: The Art and Science of a Meaningful Life, students in English and Physics will study how photography can capture meaningful images.
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.