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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“Do you know what symbiosis is?” reads the first line of the book Evolving Ecologists, …
We may look different, but underneath we are all the same. No matter what you look like, humans are a family.
Students dissected, analyzed, predicted and suggested specific ways to improve lives and livelihood.
Students worked to created a mural in memory of a student that passed away, Sean Fuchs.
Students visited the Veteran’s Village of San Diego (VVSD) to interview veterans, write about their stories, and co-design a piece of art with them.
What are the motives, practices & philosophies that characterize humans’ production of food & water?
In your own words, define what engineering is.
Twelfth grade Environmental Science students discovered that growing food is not as easy as it first may seem.
Students documented their own physics experiments in order to fight gravity using kites, balloons, and other flying objects of their own creation.