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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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.
In 1st Grade Community Magazine, questions like “What makes up a community?” and “What is in the immediate community of our school?” are explored.
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.
Why is it important to live in harmony with native species?
Does My Vote Matter introduces students to the wide array of voting systems that exist and to various measures of fairness in those systems.
How to take the most simple of all drawings…the doodle, and turn it into something more.
Fourth grade teachers designed a project for students to look at history through the lens of sports and to explore how sports build and shape communities.
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Students in kinder, third grade, sixth grade, and high school collaborated with university researchers to learn about ants in their urban and natural environments.
Students learned biology concepts and scientific methods through a real world challenge — growing food with no natural light, no gravity, and hardly any space.
Students learned about current trends in education and created their dream universities of the future.
Students will be performed as if they are at a Caribbean Carnival celebration in Trinidad and Tobago. Students studied dances from the African Diaspora.
This project allowed students to explore methods of data collection, analysis, and research into public health at a local and global level
Eleventh graders at HTHNC partnered with nonprofit organizations to support various causes in our local community.
In Newspaper Plays: Year In Review!, students asked “How can I use my voice and body to tell more effective stories?”
In Free Your Mind: The Ultimate Escape Room, students designed escape rooms that would challenge participants’ implicit bias by incorporating content related to attitudes about age, race, gender, sexuality, and mental health in each escape room puzzle.
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.