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.
What issues and problems does San Diego and its people face? How can I use empathy and compassion to make a positive difference in my community?
What small scale systems are related to larger scale systems? In language and culture? In science?
Students explored how people use parks to connect to themselves, each other, and to nature while also learning about the stars on trips to these parks.
Students read WWII novels, created plays based on them, and researched how chemistry has had an impact on warfare throughout the ages.
How are simple machines and motorized mechanisms used to provide entertainment in the form of carnival rides?
Students made their own kinetic sculptures inspired by artist Rubin Margolin, who makes wave generating machines.
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.
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.