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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What are the motives, practices & philosophies that characterize humans’ production of food & water?
Students worked in groups to research and define an aspect of blood physiology, blood banking, or blood-related diseases before creating multimedia art pieces using what they had learned.
First grade students learned about rainforests, ecosystems, agriculture, history, the economics of trade, and cooking by studying the history of chocolate.
How are simple machines and motorized mechanisms used to provide entertainment in the form of carnival rides?
Students critically examined the criminal justice system in the US by working with the California Innocence Project (CIP) to analyze actual clients’ case files and recommend to CIP whether or not to take the case.
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.
In Chaos or Community: Learning to Listen How Dialogue Can Save Us All, a student created play on History of Police Brutality & Civil Rights
Through interviews with family members, scientists, and medical professionals, students homed in answers to the question, “What am I most likely to die of?”
In Homeless in America: Exploring Homelessness and the People Who Seek to End it, student looked at the different ways that could be used to end homelessness in America.