Storytellers of the Land In collaboration with a local conservancy and river park, students identified and cataloged local wildlife through camera trap photo analysis
Nature Treasures from Land to Sea In this interdisciplinary project, Kindergarten students explored the diversity of San Di…
Seafaring on the Web In this project, students underwent an exhaustive research project featuring one marine species…
Science At Home 10th grade students did home experiments by using materials in their house and asking testable questions.
Connected through Internship Udeema shares about her various experiences interning at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
Design Challenge: Beekeeping in Doha, Qatar This was our students’ first introduction to the design thinking process and …
Plant and Insect Life Cycles Second Graders became botanists and entomologists as they cared for and cultivated plant …
Wise Kids Traditions We students thought it pretty important to think about one of the most critical things …
Matter That Matters Our goal was for students to understand how resources in our natural world acquire …
Living North County Ultimately, in groups of nine, students designed an eighteen box spinner that was …
Here Now, Gone Tomorrow students created and published a children’s book detailing their chosen endangered …
Destruction and Restoration: A History of Sausal Creek As a culminating task, student docents led families and other community members on a …
Faces of South County Each group studied the complex intersection of culture, politics, economics and …
Big Ideas from Small Creatures First grade scientists in Room 2 have been interested in garden creatures for a long …
Bacteria and You During the project, Biology students swab the kitchen for bacteria before cleaning, …
Design Challenge: Recycling Center This project was a collaboration between advanced culinary students and physics students.
Steampunk Revolution Students learned about the industrial revolution and picked often forgotten negative …
Human Impacts on Local Wildlife Students collected and dissected vehicle killed wildlife and participated in marine …
Seed Dispersal Challenge I developed a project to help students explore various seed dispersal adaptations.
College Knowledge In this project students looked at how current neuroscience research contributes to …
The Meals and Muppets Project In this interdisciplinary project, students looked at the essential question: “Should I …
Cyclic Machines Seniors at HTHNC received a simple prompt: “Create a machine or kinetic art piece that …
Staircases to Nowhere Seniors used physics, art, and carpentry to plan and build model and life-sized …
The Wicked Soap Company Students learned about saponification, chemical reactions, pH, strong bases, lab …
Colonies, Clusters, and Classrooms? Students researched a variety of animal communities through fieldwork, experts, …
