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 use science to grow a healthy and beautiful community garden?
How can students design an engaging and interactive activity for the Natural History Museum that children will find both fun and educational?
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.
Uur students became familiar with stories of a number of creatures in crisis, thinking about the best ways inform the public and motivate action.
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?
Students created art pieces and accompanying posters inspired by the quote “If a staircase goes somewhere, it is craft; if it goes nowhere, it’s art.”
Students explored how people use parks to connect to themselves, each other, and to nature while also learning about the stars on trips to these parks.
In Storytellers of the Land, fifth graders read and wrote origin stories about animals and nature and teamed up with local conservation organizations to analyze thousands of trail camera photos of local wildlife.
How can the programming of a large, complex piece of software be managed?
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In Life By The Tide: Our Coastal Ecosystems, our students will conduct research about this ecosystem and the organisms that inhabit this region.
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.
In this student-created and student-run simulation, participants took on the roles of Syrian citizens forced to leave and seek refuge in another country.
Students wrote pieces of poetry and conducted interviews to be included in different field guides about the San Diego bay.
Students will be performed as if they are at a Caribbean Carnival celebration in Trinidad and Tobago. Students studied dances from the African Diaspora.
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.
Students documented their own physics experiments in order to fight gravity using kites, balloons, and other flying objects of their own creation.
Tenth grade students created podcasts related to California state ballot propositions.
Through interviews with family members, scientists, and medical professionals, students homed in answers to the question, “What am I most likely to die of?”