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.
Browse Projects
In Homeless in America: Exploring Homelessness and the People Who Seek to End it, student looked at the different ways that could be used to end homelessness in America.
In Humans of HTH: The Art and Science of a Meaningful Life, students in English and Physics will study how photography can capture meaningful images.
What is impacting the environment in San Diego and why is it occurring?
Students worked to created a mural in memory of a student that passed away, Sean Fuchs.
Students learned about shoe design before creating their own in order to explore them as a point for a study of identity and diversity.
Through interviews with family members, scientists, and medical professionals, students homed in answers to the question, “What am I most likely to die of?”
What have the History Books left out? How have our most influential leaders been misrepresented or not represented at all?
How are things different when you cross the U.S.-Mexico border and why?
Browse Projects
Students read about and researched issues related to agriculture and biology before working in groups to create large mobile planters for kindergarteners to learn from.
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.
Each student chose an animal to study closely. To record what they’ve learned, they drew models.
Students dissected, analyzed, predicted and suggested specific ways to improve lives and livelihood.
In This American Life: An Immigration Project, students ask “What challenges have immigrants faced throughout history?”
How does the border affect the lives of people in the San Diego/Tijuana region?
First grade students learned about rainforests, ecosystems, agriculture, history, the economics of trade, and cooking by studying the history of chocolate.
Students documented their own physics experiments in order to fight gravity using kites, balloons, and other flying objects of their own creation.
How has my neighborhood taken shape over the years?