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”?
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.
Kindergarten students create an inquiry-based project about the nature of play, and in the process transformed an unused piece of land into a new play area.
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Students visited the Veteran’s Village of San Diego (VVSD) to interview veterans, write about their stories, and co-design a piece of art with them.
What is impacting the environment in San Diego and why is it occurring?
Students worked in groups to research and define an aspect of blood physiology, blood banking, or blood-related diseases before creating multimedia art pieces using what they had learned.
Uur students became familiar with stories of a number of creatures in crisis, thinking about the best ways inform the public and motivate action.
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.
In your own words, define what engineering is.
Students learned about rotational volumes by cutting shapes into books and rotating the pages around the axis of the book spine to create a three dimensional shape.
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.
Students melded art, physics, math, and elements of design and engineering to build a rolling ball structure called Kinetic Coasters.