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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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?”
In Newspaper Plays: Year In Review!, students asked “How can I use my voice and body to tell more effective stories?”
What small scale systems are related to larger scale systems? In language and culture? In science?
What are Earth’s biggest biological issues and how do they affect our local community?
Uur students became familiar with stories of a number of creatures in crisis, thinking about the best ways inform the public and motivate action.
How does our perspective change our perception of reality?
How can the programming of a large, complex piece of software be managed?
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In Ebola: Going Viral, our objective is to pose solutions to the Ebola outbreak in the United States by studying other infectious diseases.
Calculicious was a cross-curricular project at High Tech High, where seniors were engaged in using calculus to make and describe art.
Students created owl boxes for predatory birds to live in near a new building on the HTHCV campus, to learn about the local environment and help deal with the school’s rodent problem.
Through planning and reflecting on our own play, we have been working to answer our essential question, “What is the power of play?”
In this project, students chose a “food philosophy” and kept a journal of all they ate for the eight weeks of their study. They interviewed family members about favorite recipes and their history, tried them out, and wrote a cookbook containing the best of them.
Students will study the history and influence of maritume culture.
Students played a game called MUN Trade War, where they used math to model economic and military avenues of international engagement.
Why is it important to live in harmony with native species?
Students will become historians as they research the life of a “new American.”