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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Students interviewed younger children and parents in a school next to military housing in order to create a “story cushion” — a pillow with voice recorded chips so children could listen to their parent’s voice whenever they wanted.
In Operation: Protect San Diego 2.0, students examined “What can the average San Diego citizen do to protect our local environment and its inhabitants?”
How can we protect the wildlife in the Otay River Watershed?
How has my neighborhood taken shape over the years?
Students will study the process of developing plot and enhance their understanding of story structure and elements by writing plays in cooperative groups.
Students read about and researched issues related to agriculture and biology before working in groups to create large mobile planters for kindergarteners to learn from.
In Pompeii: Scenes of Destruction, students asked “What can you learn about the values of a society from the artifacts they carry with them into exile or as they flee a natural disaster?”
Eleventh graders at HTHNC partnered with nonprofit organizations to support various causes in our local community.
Through planning and reflecting on our own play, we have been working to answer our essential question, “What is the power of play?”
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Students wrote pieces of poetry and conducted interviews to be included in different field guides about the San Diego bay.
Students read about and researched issues related to agriculture and biology before working in groups to create large mobile planters for kindergarteners to learn from.
In Chaos or Community: Learning to Listen How Dialogue Can Save Us All, a student created play on History of Police Brutality & Civil Rights
Students built weather balloons and rockets in order to learn more about Astro-photography and Earth Science in an attempt to start their own HTH NASA.
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.
What are the motives, practices & philosophies that characterize humans’ production of food & water?
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.
How can the programming of a large, complex piece of software be managed?