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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What does it mean to be a “survivor”? Why should we care about and respect the environment and each other?
How does our perspective change our perception of reality?
Students melded art, physics, math, and elements of design and engineering to build a rolling ball structure called Kinetic Coasters.
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.
Students made their own kinetic sculptures inspired by artist Rubin Margolin, who makes wave generating machines.
The community our school lies in has so much rich history!
In Life By The Tide: Our Coastal Ecosystems, our students will conduct research about this ecosystem and the organisms that inhabit this region.
To explore our personal relationship with technology and unpack the complex role it plays in our existence.
Students learned about properties of light and the effect it has on certain materials via experiments before writing shadow puppet plays.
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In This American Life: An Immigration Project, students ask “What challenges have immigrants faced throughout history?”
Students learned biology concepts and scientific methods through a real world challenge — growing food with no natural light, no gravity, and hardly any space.
Students learned how to design and build fun toys designed to meet a disabled child’s needs.
Students ran and organized a Kickstarter campaign to write and film a documentary that covered the topic of gun violence and its effects in the United States.
How can the programming of a large, complex piece of software be managed?
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.
What is impacting the environment in San Diego and why is it occurring?
In Finding Dory: Saving the Coral Reefs Through Captive Breeding, students searched to see how can scientists find creative ways to protect coral reef systems.