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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Students built weather balloons and rockets in order to learn more about Astro-photography and Earth Science in an attempt to start their own HTH NASA.
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.
In Reading Buddies: the Children’s Literature Project, 11th graders were each partnered with an elementary student as a “reading buddy” to help them grow as a reader and write their own stories.
Students created owl boxes for predatory birds to live in near a new building on the HTHCV campus, to learn about the local environment and help deal with the school’s rodent problem.
Students created an art and music exhibition which explained the math concepts behind the trajectory of objects.
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.
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.
“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.
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Students learned about current trends in education and created their dream universities of the future.
How do dissent, political activism and participatory democracy play a role in the struggle for freedom and equality?
In Ampersand: The Student Journal of School & Work, students came together after working at their internships to create a yearbook of their experiences, so they could be shared with their peers.
Rise Up! A Changemaker Project built upon The Roots to Rise fall project when students explored the power of their own roots and stories, and a change they hope to create in their future.
How to take the most simple of all drawings…the doodle, and turn it into something more.
Students will study the history and influence of maritume culture.
In La Llaga: Border Project, students explore the reasons why people choose to risk their lives in the attempt to enter the United States illegally.
In This American Life: An Immigration Project, students ask “What challenges have immigrants faced throughout history?”
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.