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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Does My Vote Matter introduces students to the wide array of voting systems that exist and to various measures of fairness in those systems.
How are simple machines and motorized mechanisms used to provide entertainment in the form of carnival rides?
Students read about and researched issues related to agriculture and biology before working in groups to create large mobile planters for kindergarteners to learn from.
In Ebola: Going Viral, our objective is to pose solutions to the Ebola outbreak in the United States by studying other infectious diseases.
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.
To explore our personal relationship with technology and unpack the complex role it plays in our existence.
Students in the Wicked Soap Company use the engineering design process to make and then sell amazing soap.
The community our school lies in has so much rich history!
Students will become historians as they research the life of a “new American.”