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 will study the history and influence of maritume culture.
Students will become historians as they research the life of a “new American.”
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.
What issues and problems does San Diego and its people face? How can I use empathy and compassion to make a positive difference in my community?
After learning that suicide was the second largest killer of young people, and the growing need for education about mental health, students partnered with families to discuss their loss of a loved one on camera for a student-run video and banner campaign.
What should the public know about drugs today? How can we inform them?
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.
Students in the Wicked Soap Company use the engineering design process to make and then sell amazing soap.
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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 your own words, define what engineering is.
How are things different when you cross the U.S.-Mexico border and why?
Students read plays by three Greek writers before adapting them into an onstage version following themes of genocide, war, refugees, and the treatment of women.
In Newspaper Plays: Year In Review!, students asked “How can I use my voice and body to tell more effective stories?”
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.
Calculicious was a cross-curricular project at High Tech High, where seniors were engaged in using calculus to make and describe art.
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.