Video Portrait Project Students created a digital video portrait of themselves using one of their personal poems written in English class
What I Didn’t Say Puppet Project This blacklight neon puppet show started with the essential question: “Is there a moment in your life when you wished you had spoken up?”
Art and Activism Inspired by the picture book A is for Activist, in this project students explored the power of “muralism” to create change in communities
The Great Ceramicist Throw Down Students learned from local ceramics artists to make their own creations
Bento Students used words and images to express themselves through their experiences, passions, past memories, adventures, beliefs, sayings, dreams and more!
Quaranscene 9th grade Humanities students wrote playwriting scenes in response to their own experiences of quarantine.
Nature Treasures from Land to Sea In this interdisciplinary project, Kindergarten students explored the diversity of San Di…
Drive-Thru Generation In this time of COVID19 and social distancing, we must consider our need for appropriately…
The Making of the Modern Teen The graduating seniors of HTHMA presented a compelling and provocative interactive art …
Ideas That Changed the World Fourth Grade students recreated a World’s Fair, complete with their own working …
Plant and Insect Life Cycles Second Graders became botanists and entomologists as they cared for and cultivated plant …
You Say You Want a Revolution? In this action-packed eight-week project, students used primary and secondary resources …
Staircases to Nowhere Seniors used physics, art, and carpentry to plan and build model and life-sized …
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Honestly, the performance itself was the best part of the project.
Coded Structures, Decoded Identities As importantly, students learned to analyze critically how man-made environments affect …
Once Upon A Prime What role did mathematics play in defining history? How did war, famine, and social …
Town Squares: A San Diego Neighborhoods Project Students at HTM are selected through a lottery system and come from every zip code in …
Wat_er We Doing? A California Drought Story In this project students worked together to make a documentary about the current …
What’s the Story – an Art Project This project was designed to develop children’s painting and drawing skills as well as …
Re-inventing Romeo and Juliet Students created theatrical design elements—lights, sounds, costumes, set—for Romeo & …
In Sickness and In Health This 11th-grade interdisciplinary project used art, biology, and humanities to pursue …
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 …
Welcoming New Members Through Design Thinking “How can I help new people feel welcome to Colegio Roosevelt and make their transition …
Self Portrait Relief Prints Patterns of our Existence and Beyond was inspired by Dia de los Muertos, a Mexican …
Mystery Code Project The Mystery Code Project was a collaboration between 11th grade English, math, and art …
Historic Rap Throwdown In pairs, students chose and then researched a controversial historical figure that had …
Turning Points, Toy Theatre The goal of this project was to recreate and interpret critical historical turning …
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 …
Resilience Café Project During the Resilience Café Project, 8th graders learned about resilient heroes from the …
Digital Storytelling Students created digital stories about a defining moment, a message, or a lesson learned …
Soaring Eagles In this collaboration between the San Diego Unified School District’s Indian Education …
Moral Courage Project n this project my middle school students go on a self-exploration journey through …
Hispanic Artist Inspired Self-Portraits High Tech Middle’s art class celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month by researching the …
Artist Happy Un-Birthday Project For this Un-Birthday project, each student spent one week studying an artist whose …
The Graphic Novel Project The HTH Graphic Novel Project, based at High Tech High Chula Vista, aims to instruct …
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.
Analog Flash for Windows The assignment for this senior project was to create an interactive, museum-quality …
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 …
Project Deepening: Bird Dancers Second grade students deepen their project with a visit from bird dancers from several local tribes
A Community Committed to Deeper Learning Almost exactly one year into the global pandemic, the deeper learning community gathered virtually…
Power of the Influencer exhibition 7th grade students at High Tech Middle North County from Emily Kyle’s humanities class explore…
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 High Chula Vista
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 . . .
Graffiti Discussions: Igniting the Silent Majority. “The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything…”
Here Now, Gone Tomorrow students created and published a children’s book detailing their chosen endangered …
Building Empathy Through Action Teenager. What does that word make you think about? Do you think of recklessness and…
“Thou Talk’st of Nothing” In today’s media-saturated society, it can sometimes feel like a sisyphean feat to…
Every Classroom Should Be A Maker Space Early on, I held up published books ranging from 50 to approximately 150 pages. “This…
Roland Barthes’ Mythologies In 1957, an extraordinary work of literature was published detailing concepts far ahead …
Colonies, Clusters, and Classrooms? Students researched a variety of animal communities through fieldwork, experts, …
An Artful Thinking Classroom I projected the image onto the screen and gave my eighth grade students several quiet…
Reclaiming Stupidity Ken would prepare for his class weeks ahead of time, carefully experimenting and planning…
The Blood Bank Project This project was a collaboration between the San Diego Blood Bank and HTH seniors, as …
All the School’s a Stage Many people would rather die than put themselves onstage, so they are comfortably seated…
Remixing Education A TV satellite dish made of tin cans. A tattoo gun crafted out of a ballpoint pen and a rubber…
Outside the Lens “This exhibit shows you what we love about ourselves. We are all unique and have different…
Exhibition Blues In a shadow puppet play, the audience sees only shadows on a screen while the puppeteer’s…
Public Service Advertising Campaign Groups are assigned to create an advertising campaign focusing on a social issue.
Invisibility Seniors from High Tech High Media Arts brought the invisible to light during a multimedia …
San Diego/Tijuana Crossed Gazes Twenty-two middle school children (12 in Tijuana and 10 in San Diego) learned and applied …
Writing on the Walls Through this multidisciplinary project, students at HTH North County will explore and …
