Educational Video Games And Transdisciplinary PBL

The above scene occurred in a recent session of the Minecraft Mathematics Middle School…

Annotating Teacher Work

The first might be expected of my eighth graders: they were not listening during class. The…

Who Owns Professional Development?

After hanging up the phone I pause to think about professional development at High…

Throwing a Shoe Every Day

It was first period, on the first day of seventh grade. Twenty of us sat fidgeting in…

Going Gaga

It all started when the eighth grade students came back from retreat with an “awesome”…

Stories of Service

In the spring of 2008, eighth graders at HTMMA took part in a National Veterans…

The Incredible Journey

I went to China with 37 middle school students.

AbleGamerz

What does ‘disabled’ mean, and how does it affect one’s perceived value in society?

Mathigami

Mathigami is a program designed at the University of San Diego by Perla …

Schooling Fish

At the start of this project, students raised rainbow trout …

Ease on Down the Road

HTMMA partnered with different non-profits around San Diego to help spread their messages to the community.

Here Now, Gone Tomorrow

students created and published a children’s book detailing their chosen endangered …

Give Me Shelter

We examined the issues of resource availability, equity, and access.

Call Sign: Courage

Students collaborated with the USS Midway museum to capture the stories of Naval …

Seed Dispersal Challenge

I developed a project to help students explore various seed dispersal adaptations.

Walk In Their Shoes

Each student chose to research an issue or event in the Congo that was somehow a result …

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Honestly, the performance itself was the best part of the project.

The Meals and Muppets Project

In this interdisciplinary project, students looked at the essential question: “Should I …

The Haunted Arcade: Halloween Carnival Games

In preparation for the popular school-wide Halloween carnival, 7th graders challenged …

Who Walks Here: The Journey of Our People and Our Land

The Who Walks Here project came from the teachers’ passion for nature and wanting our …

Wat_er We Doing? A California Drought Story

In this project students worked together to make a documentary about the current …

The Lantern Project

In this project, the entire 6th grade learned about geometry, unit rate, expenses and …

Colonies, Clusters, and Classrooms?

Students researched a variety of animal communities through fieldwork, experts, …

A New Life

Students began by researching the countries of the refugees and immigrants that they …

Town Squares: A San Diego Neighborhoods Project

Students at HTM are selected through a lottery system and come from every zip code in …

Who Am I?

In this interdisciplinary project, students examined several different facets of their …

Creative Collective: An Integrated Project of the Arts

Our 6th and 7th grade students collaborated to create an art piece that combined the …

Zoomanity

In this nine-week project, students worked in groups of four to design an enclosure for …

In Their Skin

“All too often we focus on our immediate impressions when considering other’s …

Wild Pond Protectors

At the beginning of the year the kindergarteners learned about their own community and …