Media Saves the Beach Is it safe to go in the water? This question began an exploration of San Diego’s beaches …
Cuentos Infantiles Students produced Spanish children’s books and gave them to Spanish-speaking children.
Chemical Identity Masks In this interdisciplinary project, student created a two-sided identity mask.
A Hero In My Eyes After studying the question, “What is a hero in today’s society?,” students created a …
Graph-It Design For the Graph-It Design project, each student used Excel software to create their own …
Pinhole Photography Students built pinhole cameras and took black-and-white photos, which they then …
Twelve Steps to Beautiful Work Here are twelve progressive layers of scaffolding that teachers might employ to help …
The Blood Bank Project This project was a collaboration between the San Diego Blood Bank and HTH seniors, as …
Keeping it Real Like many adults, I have trouble remembering a time in school when I felt really engaged…
Into the World of Projects This year I fell in love with project-based learning. I am new to this world and I jumped…
Going Socratic The first Socratic seminar I ran went badly—very badly. Students were either dead silent…
Blossoms From Compost: Lessons From a Messy Garden Gardening is whole-body learning, offering rich, multi-sensory, direct personal experience…
Outside the Lens “This exhibit shows you what we love about ourselves. We are all unique and have different…
Echoes & Reflections Jill, the principal, was standing by the front desk at Explorer Elementary. She was petite…
The Long Road: (Re)Segregation in America Gary Orfield co-founded the Harvard Civil Rights Project and is currently Co-Director of…
Lila Speaks As of yesterday, it had been 13 weeks, or 55 school days, since school started. Yet it was…
Exhibition Blues In a shadow puppet play, the audience sees only shadows on a screen while the puppeteer’s…
Where Do Projects Come From? The topic of discussion, as it so often is, was how to make projects meaningful and still…
