The Innocence Project Students partner with the California Innocence Project to review case files of wrongfully convicted prisoners…
Off Beat Music Festival The Off Beat Music Festival had students come together to forms bands and perform at a self-organized festival
“Dear Math, You are Dreadful”: Using Student Storytelling about Math to Transform Classrooms 15-year veteran math teacher, Sarah Strong, and her high school student, Gigi Butterfield, get into why kids hate math (at least some of them), and what to do about it.
On the Trail of the Literacy Campaign: Internship in Cuba… As I sit in a small living room, an elderly woman details her experiences fifty years ago.
Staircases to Nowhere Seniors used physics, art, and carpentry to plan and build model and life-sized …
Best Project of All Time Using time as a theme, in this project we explored the mathematical concepts of …
The Upcycle Project This project had the broad goals of recognizing and confronting our environmentally …
Subatomic Black Hole Soup: A Graphic Novel Project For this project, seniors explored the task of teaching a complex physics concept in a ..
Chemistry and Conflict The inspiration for this project came from a “thing biography” display at a Los Angeles …
Cultural Encounters Our students explored how historical events such as immigration and war affected their …
Viva La Revolucion! In a semester-long collaboration between two Humanities classes, students researched …
Economics Illustrated Tenth grade students in Humanities and Digital Imaging created a book on economic …
Conceptual Art Project When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and …
Ancient Sailing and Seafarers This project looks at how and why seafaring peoples ventured out to the deep blue …
Inner Nature Mask Project While much of the Western academic tradition focuses upon the external world, we shifted …
DNA Barcoding Invasive Species This study is a component of the HTH San Diego Bay Study, now in its eighth year.
Your Inner Warrior The Inner Warrior Project, the first project to kick off the semester in multimedia…
Illuminated Journals Inspired by Ken Kesey’s Jail Journal, which links writing with original art, students …
Philosopher Shrines Salon Night Students experienced the beauty of math by creating murals using specific geometric shapes.
Physics A to Z Students experienced the beauty of math by creating murals using specific geometric shapes.
The Sangak{You} project Sangaku or San Gaku are Japanese geometrical puzzles on wooden tablets, created during …
Children’s Astronomy Book Project Students created an illustrated book to teach young children about our universe.
Bilingual Spoken Word In Spanish class, freshmen explored the theme of “Cruzando fronteras” (crossing borders) …
The {hu}Manifest Project Students worked individually on an integrated project exploring the essential question …