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 Through My Eyes: Photography and Literacy, third grade students undertook a year-long study of photography, integrating science, literacy, writing, social studies, and art.
How can we help provide San Diego artists with affordable housing?
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.
Students created their own toy alongside local pre-schoolers and write a story about what that toy does when no one is around.
Students learned how to design and build fun toys designed to meet a disabled child’s needs.
How does / can urban planning impact us as individuals and as a community?
Students in kinder, third grade, sixth grade, and high school collaborated with university researchers to learn about ants in their urban and natural environments.
What are the motives, practices & philosophies that characterize humans’ production of food & water?
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Students interviewed younger children and parents in a school next to military housing in order to create a “story cushion” — a pillow with voice recorded chips so children could listen to their parent’s voice whenever they wanted.
Students made their own kinetic sculptures inspired by artist Rubin Margolin, who makes wave generating machines.
What have the History Books left out? How have our most influential leaders been misrepresented or not represented at all?
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.
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.
Why is it important to have access to books? How can we help our community get access to books?
4th graders at HTeCV raised awareness about the pollution problem they noticed on campus and put solutions into action to reduce waste.
Calculicious was a cross-curricular project at High Tech High, where seniors were engaged in using calculus to make and describe art.