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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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.
In 1st Grade Community Magazine, questions like “What makes up a community?” and “What is in the immediate community of our school?” are explored.
Teachers devised a project to stimulate students to think critically about their communities. They created conceptual maps of the city to communicate a message they cared about.
Why is it important to live in harmony with native species?
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 to take the most simple of all drawings…the doodle, and turn it into something more.
Fourth grade teachers designed a project for students to look at history through the lens of sports and to explore how sports build and shape communities.
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“Do you know what symbiosis is?” reads the first line of the book Evolving Ecologists, …
Students played a game called MUN Trade War, where they used math to model economic and military avenues of international engagement.
In this project students will be asked to be: Builders/unbuilders, authors, editors, artists, poets, athletes.
Students dissected, analyzed, predicted and suggested specific ways to improve lives and livelihood.
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.
Why is it important to have access to books? How can we help our community get access to books?
Students decided to test the quality of San Diego’s coastal waters and produce media in multiple formats to inform the public about what they discovered.
How does / can urban planning impact us as individuals and as a community?
Students learned about current trends in education and created their dream universities of the future.