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 Through My Eyes: Photography and Literacy, third grade students undertook a year-long study of photography, integrating science, literacy, writing, social studies, and art.
How can we help provide San Diego artists with affordable housing?
Students read plays by three Greek writers before adapting them into an onstage version following themes of genocide, war, refugees, and the treatment of women.
Students created their own toy alongside local pre-schoolers and write a story about what that toy does when no one is around.
Students learned how to design and build fun toys designed to meet a disabled child’s needs.
How does / can urban planning impact us as individuals and as a community?
Students in kinder, third grade, sixth grade, and high school collaborated with university researchers to learn about ants in their urban and natural environments.
What are the motives, practices & philosophies that characterize humans’ production of food & water?
Browse Projects
Students learned about rotational volumes by cutting shapes into books and rotating the pages around the axis of the book spine to create a three dimensional shape.
Students ran a political campaign simulation and conducted extensive interviews with people from the community about societal issues so students could learn about these topics both on a macro-level and through personal experiences.
How can we improve our, and the generations to follow, well-being with the wisdom of indigenous people?
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?
Kindergarten students create an inquiry-based project about the nature of play, and in the process transformed an unused piece of land into a new play area.
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.
Students investigated the role of bees in our ecosystem, the various ways bees are being threatened, and wrote and performed plays about some aspect of what they had learned.
It was not your typical treasure map, but the students were excited nonetheless.