Drive-Thru Generation In this time of COVID19 and social distancing, we must consider our need for appropriately…
Big Ideas from Small Creatures First grade scientists in Room 2 have been interested in garden creatures for a long …
The Making of the Modern Teen The graduating seniors of HTHMA presented a compelling and provocative interactive art …
Staircases to Nowhere Seniors used physics, art, and carpentry to plan and build model and life-sized …
Coded Structures, Decoded Identities As importantly, students learned to analyze critically how man-made environments affect …
What is your Everest? After reading the novel Peak, by Roland Smith, fifth grade students studied the …
What’s the Story – an Art Project This project was designed to develop children’s painting and drawing skills as well as …
A Picture is Worth 1000 Words This was a collaborative project between 12th grade Art and English classes where …
Creative Collective: An Integrated Project of the Arts Our 6th and 7th grade students collaborated to create an art piece that combined the …
Mystery Code Project The Mystery Code Project was a collaboration between 11th grade English, math, and art …
The Hidden Garden In a hidden garden revived from the 1920s, seniors from High Tech High Media Arts …
Wall of Resistance Project In 1961 the Soviet Union constructed a wall in Berlin that symbolized the cold war …
Conceptual Art Project When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and …
Resilience Café Project During the Resilience Café Project, 8th graders learned about resilient heroes from the …
The Lascaux Cave Project Our Lascaux Cave Project explored the essential question, “What makes us human?” Working …
Moral Courage Project n this project my middle school students go on a self-exploration journey through …
Media Saves the Beach Is it safe to go in the water? This question began an exploration of San Diego’s beaches …
Artist Happy Un-Birthday Project For this Un-Birthday project, each student spent one week studying an artist whose …
Story/Art Project Students analyzed numerous short stories with attention to tone, mood, structure and …
The Sangak{You} project Sangaku or San Gaku are Japanese geometrical puzzles on wooden tablets, created during …
Philosopher Shrines Salon Night Students experienced the beauty of math by creating murals using specific geometric shapes.
Picasso’s Influence on HTH: Analytical Cubism Start with a drawing add color and an image & throw in a pattern too.
I Am an Artist Students explored dimensions of their identity and created a double-sided canvas that …
Graph-It Design For the Graph-It Design project, each student used Excel software to create their own …
HTHybrid — Stained Glass Chalk Art High Tech High Media Arts 12th grade students create outdoor art in one of their first…
“Nobody dresses like that here” Jean and Alec talk to artist, community activist, entrepreneur and Dean of High Tech …
S01E21: How Carol Cabrera Stages Student Plays on Zoom In this episode, Brent Spirnak interviews 9th grade humanities teacher Carol Cabrera …
The Breaks Exhibition Fernando Vega’s 6th grade students from High Tech Middle North County explored the four . . .
Making Critique Work I introduced critique to my class after reading Ron Berger’s manifesto, An Ethic of…
Honoring the Students Tony Simmons, Executive Director at High School for Recording Arts, talks about the …
Little Bits Of Magic My colleague was craving opportunities for us to share a success from our classroom, an…
Roland Barthes’ Mythologies In 1957, an extraordinary work of literature was published detailing concepts far ahead …
An Artful Thinking Classroom I projected the image onto the screen and gave my eighth grade students several quiet…
The Power of My Mistakes For my project on authoritarian rulers, I divided students into groups, each of which…
Science Room as Drawing Room What students find daunting in Biology is not so much the concepts, but the amount…
Sunflowers and Math I don’t recall how long our class spent working on the art pieces or what we did before…
Reclaiming Stupidity Ken would prepare for his class weeks ahead of time, carefully experimenting and planning…
Voices and Visions Well-versed in the project protocol, our seniors are hungry for the real world. They…
Visions of Mathematics “What is our vision for mathematics at High Tech High?” It is my belief that there is quite…
The Blood Bank Project This project was a collaboration between the San Diego Blood Bank and HTH seniors, as …
Invisibility Seniors from High Tech High Media Arts brought the invisible to light during a multimedia …
Superhero in the Making This project integrates language arts and physics standards while tapping into students’ …
Writing on the Walls Through this multidisciplinary project, students at HTH North County will explore and …
