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?”
Eleventh graders at HTHNC partnered with nonprofit organizations to support various causes in our local community.
“Do you know what symbiosis is?” reads the first line of the book Evolving Ecologists, …
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.
In Storytellers of the Land, fifth graders read and wrote origin stories about animals and nature and teamed up with local conservation organizations to analyze thousands of trail camera photos of local wildlife.
Students ran a political campaign simulation and conducted extensive interviews with people from the community about societal issues so students could learn about these topics both on a macro-level and through personal experiences.
In Humans of HTH: The Art and Science of a Meaningful Life, students in English and Physics will study how photography can capture meaningful images.
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.
Students dissected, analyzed, predicted and suggested specific ways to improve lives and livelihood.