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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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 has my neighborhood taken shape over the years?
Students learned about current trends in education and created their dream universities of the future.
How can the programming of a large, complex piece of software be managed?
A 6th grade children’s book on climate change and its impact on endangered species.
Students conducted research and interviews about a specific molecule and its role in history. The information they gathered was used to create art pieces for a book on the different compounds.
Students will be performed as if they are at a Caribbean Carnival celebration in Trinidad and Tobago. Students studied dances from the African Diaspora.
In Newspaper Plays: Year In Review!, students asked “How can I use my voice and body to tell more effective stories?”
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.