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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What small scale systems are related to larger scale systems? In language and culture? In science?
Students documented their own physics experiments in order to fight gravity using kites, balloons, and other flying objects of their own creation.
6th grade students set out to explore the questions surrounding disability, using video gaming as both a point of common interest and a real-world engineering and technological challenge.
In This American Life: An Immigration Project, students ask “What challenges have immigrants faced throughout history?”
In Ampersand: The Student Journal of School & Work, students came together after working at their internships to create a yearbook of their experiences, so they could be shared with their peers.
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.
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We will use the lucha libre metaphor to find ways of tackling social problems that are prevalent both in Latin America and in our own community.
In this project, students chose a “food philosophy” and kept a journal of all they ate for the eight weeks of their study. They interviewed family members about favorite recipes and their history, tried them out, and wrote a cookbook containing the best of them.
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.
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?
In This American Life: An Immigration Project, students ask “What challenges have immigrants faced throughout history?”
It was not your typical treasure map, but the students were excited nonetheless.
4th graders at HTeCV raised awareness about the pollution problem they noticed on campus and put solutions into action to reduce waste.
Students documented their own physics experiments in order to fight gravity using kites, balloons, and other flying objects of their own creation.
Students created an art and music exhibition which explained the math concepts behind the trajectory of objects.