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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How can we use science to grow a healthy and beautiful community garden?
Students will study the process of developing plot and enhance their understanding of story structure and elements by writing plays in cooperative groups.
What small scale systems are related to larger scale systems? In language and culture? In science?
Students will become historians as they research the life of a “new American.”
Students learned about shoe design before creating their own in order to explore them as a point for a study of identity and diversity.
Students worked to created a mural in memory of a student that passed away, Sean Fuchs.
The community our school lies in has so much rich history!
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.”