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Project Cards provide quick glimpses of inspiring projects designed by teachers and realized in collaboration with students.

Two Sides to a Screen

Students took a deep look into screens to see how they can both negatively and positively affect our lives [read more]

Alicia Trout, Guy Maclaury, Vanessa Medellin

English

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Here Now, Gone Tomorrow

students created and published a children’s book detailing their chosen endangered ... [read more]

Curtis Taylor, Ivan Recendez

Invisibility

Seniors from High Tech High Media Arts brought the invisible to light during a multimedia ... [read more]

Lacey Segal, Margaret Noble

Science

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Steampunk Revolution

Students learned about the industrial revolution and picked often forgotten negative ... [read more]

Joshua Moreno, Sara Islas, Ted Cuevas

Colonies, Clusters, and Classrooms?

Students researched a variety of animal communities through fieldwork, experts, ... [read more]

Chelsea Pasfield, Grace Kegley, Shelby Fuentes

Math

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The Lantern Project

In this project, the entire 6th grade learned about geometry, unit rate, expenses and ... [read more]

Allie Wong, Gary Gould, Maggie Miller, Mary Williams

Analog Flash for Windows

The assignment for this senior project was to create an interactive, museum-quality ... [read more]

Andrew Gloag, David Berggren, Jeff Robin

Social Studies

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Superhero in the Making

This project integrates language arts and physics standards while tapping into students’ ... [read more]

Chris Wakefield, Diana Cornejo-Sanchez

Writing on the Walls

Through this multidisciplinary project, students at HTH North County will explore and ... [read more]

Jenny Pieratt, Shani Leader

Arts

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Turning Points, Toy Theatre

The goal of this project was to recreate and interpret critical historical turning ... [read more]

Margaret Noble, Rachel Nichols

Nature Treasures from Land to Sea

In this interdisciplinary project, Kindergarten students explored the diversity of San Di... [read more]

Angie Kenny, Jeanine Blum, Latanya Lockett, Michelina Miedema, Rosemarie Biocarles-Rydeen

Elementary School

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Come Play With Us

Patricia Lim and Stacey Stevenson created an inquiry-based project about the nature of play, in the hopes it could ultimately [read more]

Patricia Lim, Stacey Stevenson

Laughter Project

In this hybrid project done in the 2020-2021 school year, fifth graders learned what makes them funny... [read more]

Becky Frost, Carrie Geremia, Kalin Cameron, Paige Kennick

Middle School

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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 ... [read more]

Brooke Newman, Christine Kuhl, Julie Hutchins, Misa Adams, Shayna Cribbs

San Diego/Tijuana Crossed Gazes

Twenty-two middle school children (12 in Tijuana and 10 in San Diego) learned and applied ... [read more]

Dr. Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Zoë Randall

High School

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Response-ABILITY: Empathy in Action

Few people recognize or understand the conflict and crisis that result in refugee ... [read more]

Shani Leader

Design Challenge: Beekeeping in Doha, Qatar

This was our students’ first introduction to the design thinking process and ... [read more]

Lisa Bastedo, Maria Manacheril, Rachel Rust