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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In Finding Dory: Saving the Coral Reefs Through Captive Breeding, students searched to see how can scientists find creative ways to protect coral reef systems.
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.
In La Llaga: Border Project, students explore the reasons why people choose to risk their lives in the attempt to enter the United States illegally.
Students read WWII novels, created plays based on them, and researched how chemistry has had an impact on warfare throughout the ages.
Students dissected, analyzed, predicted and suggested specific ways to improve lives and livelihood.
How can we help provide San Diego artists with affordable housing?
What are the motives, practices & philosophies that characterize humans’ production of food & water?
What is impacting the environment in San Diego and why is it occurring?
The evolution of art in Western civilization is an epic journey, a mirror to humanity’s past from its ancient roots.
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What should the public know about drugs today? How can we inform them?
In Newspaper Plays: Year In Review!, students asked “How can I use my voice and body to tell more effective stories?”
Students documented their own physics experiments in order to fight gravity using kites, balloons, and other flying objects of their own creation.
To explore our personal relationship with technology and unpack the complex role it plays in our existence.
Students conducted research and interviews about a specific molecule and its role in history. The information they gathered was used to create art pieces for a book on the different compounds.
Students made their own kinetic sculptures inspired by artist Rubin Margolin, who makes wave generating machines.
In Operation: Protect San Diego 2.0, students examined “What can the average San Diego citizen do to protect our local environment and its inhabitants?”
Students learned biology concepts and scientific methods through a real world challenge — growing food with no natural light, no gravity, and hardly any space.