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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In this project students will be asked to be: Builders/unbuilders, authors, editors, artists, poets, athletes.

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.

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.

December Sky combine the thrill of speed with the something that every young person dreams about—our future in the cosmos.

How can we use science to grow a healthy and beautiful community garden?

What should the public know about drugs today? How can we inform them?



How are simple machines and motorized mechanisms used to provide entertainment in the form of carnival rides?