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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How can we prepare for and manage wildfire in California?
In Free Your Mind: The Ultimate Escape Room, students designed escape rooms that would challenge participants’ implicit bias by incorporating content related to attitudes about age, race, gender, sexuality, and mental health in each escape room puzzle.
Twelfth grade Environmental Science students discovered that growing food is not as easy as it first may seem.
What impact can I have to positively influence my community?
What are Earth’s biggest biological issues and how do they affect our local community?
Students learned biology concepts and scientific methods through a real world challenge — growing food with no natural light, no gravity, and hardly any space.
Our nation is in need of healing: healing from our racial division, healing from bigotry and oppression, and healing from fear.
How can we feed our bodies to be healthy? How can we move our bodies to be healthy?
A 6th grade children’s book on climate change and its impact on endangered species.
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In Newspaper Plays: Year In Review!, students asked “How can I use my voice and body to tell more effective stories?”
Students explored the simplicity and limitless uses of a cardboard box and then built arcade games out of cardboard and other recycled materials.
How can we use science to grow a healthy and beautiful community garden?
Students read plays by three Greek writers before adapting them into an onstage version following themes of genocide, war, refugees, and the treatment of women.
How can we feed our bodies to be healthy? How can we move our bodies to be healthy?
This project allowed students to explore methods of data collection, analysis, and research into public health at a local and global level
Eleventh graders at HTHNC partnered with nonprofit organizations to support various causes in our local community.
Students in kinder, third grade, sixth grade, and high school collaborated with university researchers to learn about ants in their urban and natural environments.
Why is it important to have access to books? How can we help our community get access to books?