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Tidepool Protectors

Through fieldwork and research, students learned how tide pools are created and how the environment changes with low and high tides

A Story of Butterflies, Regeneration, and Hope

Alec talks to Shelley Glenn Lee, director of High Tech Elementary North County, and Durrell Kapan, a Senior Research Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences, about how the Silvery Blue butterfly is filling the ecological niche left by the extinction of the Xerces Blue butterfly in San Francisco… with some help from Durrell and his team

Creatures Before Us

Students became experts on creatures from the Mesozoic Era through research, measurement, writing, and fieldwork experiences.

Welcome to Sustainable San Diego

Students created travel brochures in small groups, featuring a San Diego map with sustainable sites and descriptions of their eco-friendly practices and visitor appeal.

Emerging Entomologists

First graders worked as naturalists to connect the community to the ants that share our environment

High Tech at the River Park

Third and eleventh grade students collaborated to research and share insights about local natural spaces, enhancing their understanding through lessons, writing, research, and videos.

Tales and Test Tubes

Twelfth grade students developed science based bilingual novels with elementary students

The Oyster Project

The Oyster Project is a student-led project equipping them with skills to monitor and document human impacts on their community’s resources.

A Walk In The Parks

Students researched one of the 63 US National Parks focusing on information that other 4th graders would enjoy learning about

Shift

Students studied the geological processes of changing the land via erosion, human impact, and other forces to model gradual change in their topographical maps

Two Sides to a Screen

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

Storytellers of the Land

In collaboration with a local conservancy and river park, students identified and cataloged local wildlife through camera trap photo analysis

Seafaring on the Web

In this project, students underwent an exhaustive research project featuring one marine species…

Healthy Me

In this project, students explored all about healthy living. First graders became …

Matter That Matters

Our goal was for students to understand how resources in our natural world acquire …

Wise Kids Traditions

We students thought it pretty important to think about one of the most critical things …

College Knowledge

In this project students looked at how current neuroscience research contributes to …

The Upcycle Project

This project had the broad goals of recognizing and confronting our environmentally …

Apocalypto

Human history is punctuated by the prolific rise and inevitable collapse of …

Jambox Project

Plato once wrote, “Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education …

LEGO Carnival

Everyone loves a good carnival, especially the rides! In addition to adrenaline, fun …

A Fly on the Wall

A Fly on the Wall Project was a collaborative project between 11th grade biology and …

In 1,000 Words

Students developed visual literacy skills to analyze historical photographs and …

The Boneyard Project

This eight week project between Nick Ehlers’ junior biology class and Patrick Wilcox, a …

Energy Puzzles

Our senior engineering students created jigsaw puzzles to introduce energy concepts to …

Matter All Around

First Grade Scientists explored the world of matter all around them! They wondered…

The Hidden Garden

In a hidden garden revived from the 1920s, seniors from High Tech High Media Arts …

Chemistry and Conflict

The inspiration for this project came from a “thing biography” display at a Los Angeles …

Life: The Book

In this project a humanities class and a biology class collaborated to explore the …

Inventions

What would second graders invent to make the world a better place? A trash machine that …

Media Saves the Beach

Is it safe to go in the water? This question began an exploration of San Diego’s beaches …

Urban Ecology

What is urban ecology? How can humans create sustainable and efficient modern urban …

Physics A to Z

Students experienced the beauty of math by creating murals using specific geometric shapes.

Science Friction

The goal of Science Friction was to help students understand that physics is all around …

Graph-It Design

For the Graph-It Design project, each student used Excel software to create their own …

Pinhole Photography

Students built pinhole cameras and took black-and-white photos, which they then …

ANIMON

ANIMON is the result of the teachers seeing students’ passion for Pokemon and wild animals…

San Diego to Hawaii

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

Science At Home

10th grade students did home experiments by using materials in their house and asking testable questions.

Schooling Fish

At the start of this project, students raised rainbow trout …

Living North County

Ultimately, in groups of nine, students designed an eighteen box spinner that was …

Bacteria and You

During the project, Biology students swab the kitchen for bacteria before cleaning, …

Give Me Shelter

We examined the issues of resource availability, equity, and access.

Steampunk Revolution

Students learned about the industrial revolution and picked often forgotten negative …

Cyclic Machines

Seniors at HTHNC received a simple prompt: “Create a machine or kinetic art piece that …

Who Am I?

In this interdisciplinary project, students examined several different facets of their …

Wild Pond Protectors

At the beginning of the year the kindergarteners learned about their own community and …

#Hashtag Film Project

Students examined the role of the media in their lives and how they can use the media to …

Annotating Teacher Work

The first might be expected of my eighth graders: they were not listening during class. The…

Superhero in the Making

This project integrates language arts and physics standards while tapping into students’ …
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