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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Students interviewed younger children and parents in a school next to military housing in order to create a “story cushion” — a pillow with voice recorded chips so children could listen to their parent’s voice whenever they wanted.
In Operation: Protect San Diego 2.0, students examined “What can the average San Diego citizen do to protect our local environment and its inhabitants?”
How can we protect the wildlife in the Otay River Watershed?
How has my neighborhood taken shape over the years?
Students will study the process of developing plot and enhance their understanding of story structure and elements by writing plays in cooperative groups.
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 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?”
Eleventh graders at HTHNC partnered with nonprofit organizations to support various causes in our local community.
Through planning and reflecting on our own play, we have been working to answer our essential question, “What is the power of play?”
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Students learned about current trends in education and created their dream universities of the future.
How can we prepare for and manage wildfire in California?
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.
Rise Up! A Changemaker Project built upon The Roots to Rise fall project when students explored the power of their own roots and stories, and a change they hope to create in their future.
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.
50 high school juniors collaborated with a local musician and film director to create a music video for the song, “Bubbles In Space” by Mike Andrews.
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.
In the project, Wow, It’s Cacao, students learned and reflected about the importance of chocolate in several cultures around the globe.
Why is it important to live in harmony with native species?