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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Students in the Wicked Soap Company use the engineering design process to make and then sell amazing soap.
How do dissent, political activism and participatory democracy play a role in the struggle for freedom and equality?
This project allowed students to explore methods of data collection, analysis, and research into public health at a local and global level
Students interviewed younger children and parents in a school next to military housing in order to create a “story cushion” — a pillow with voice recorded chips so children could listen to their parent’s voice whenever they wanted.
How can we celebrate 100 years of the “Golden Wings”?
Students learned about properties of light and the effect it has on certain materials via experiments before writing shadow puppet plays.
Students created art pieces and accompanying posters inspired by the quote “If a staircase goes somewhere, it is craft; if it goes nowhere, it’s art.”
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.