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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Each student chose an animal to study closely. To record what they’ve learned, they drew models.
Why is it important to have access to books? How can we help our community get access to books?
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.
How can we celebrate 100 years of the “Golden Wings”?
Students will be performed as if they are at a Caribbean Carnival celebration in Trinidad and Tobago. Students studied dances from the African Diaspora.
How are simple machines and motorized mechanisms used to provide entertainment in the form of carnival rides?
In Chaos or Community: Learning to Listen How Dialogue Can Save Us All, a student created play on History of Police Brutality & Civil Rights
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.
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In Reading Buddies: the Children’s Literature Project, 11th graders were each partnered with an elementary student as a “reading buddy” to help them grow as a reader and write their own stories.
How does our perspective change our perception of reality?
Students went on a three-day, 23-mile journey on foot from the Mexican border to the Cabrillo National Monument, capturing the details of the journey through photography and journaling, later to be synthesized into a book focused on dichotomies that students chose to highlight.
What is impacting the environment in San Diego and why is it occurring?
How can we use science to grow a healthy and beautiful community garden?
In This American Life: An Immigration Project, students ask “What challenges have immigrants faced throughout history?”
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.
Students in kinder, third grade, sixth grade, and high school collaborated with university researchers to learn about ants in their urban and natural environments.
In Newspaper Plays: Year In Review!, students asked “How can I use my voice and body to tell more effective stories?”