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 learned about current trends in education and created their dream universities of the future.
In this project, students learned about geometry and algebra by designing and creating their own paper lanterns.
How has my neighborhood taken shape over the years?
How can students design an engaging and interactive activity for the Natural History Museum that children will find both fun and educational?
What issues and problems does San Diego and its people face? How can I use empathy and compassion to make a positive difference in my community?
In Staff Class to the Past: Time Travel Through U.S. History, students answered the question what would it be like to travel back in time and experience history as it unfolded?
How are simple machines and motorized mechanisms used to provide entertainment in the form of carnival rides?
In your own words, define what engineering is.
Students planted positive seeds of school culture, both literally in the garden and figuratively in the hallways of our new shared school building.
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Students played a game called MUN Trade War, where they used math to model economic and military avenues of international engagement.
Students will become historians as they research the life of a “new American.”
Students created their own toy alongside local pre-schoolers and write a story about what that toy does when no one is around.
Students will study the process of developing plot and enhance their understanding of story structure and elements by writing plays in cooperative groups.
What should the public know about drugs today? How can we inform them?
Rise Up! A Changemaker Project built upon The Roots to Rise fall project when students explored the power of their own roots and stories, and a change they hope to create in their future.
What have the History Books left out? How have our most influential leaders been misrepresented or not represented at all?
The core purpose of this project was for students to develop a connection to the natural world, and examine the role of pollinators, and re-plant a school garden.
Students learned biology concepts and scientific methods through a real world challenge — growing food with no natural light, no gravity, and hardly any space.