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Contrary to what you may have heard on Oprah, not only do High Tech High students read books, but they actually produce books too. HTH students and faculty publish their work on websites and in books, because we believe that an important step in the learning process is presenting one's work to an authentic audience. It is also how we hold ourselves accountable for the work that we do. Help the High Tech High accountability effort by purchasing books below.

Project Based Learning At HTH
These projects are examples of the work that is done at all of the High Tech High Schools. It is our record of what we have done and how to get there. Teachers can utilize this to show off what they have done with their students, and get ideas from others teachers. Students can show their parents and friends the work that they have done, and the community can see how project based learning enables students to do and learn. Please enjoy the projects and videos.

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Publications:

A Bite of the Norton-Simon
A collaboration between Jeff Robin, art teacher, and Colleen O'Boyle, senior English teacher.

A Mathematical Makeover: Using Student Choice to Differentiate Elementary Math Learning Station
In this action research project Samantha Gladwell, an alum of the HTH GSE Teacher Leadership program, examines the impact of using student choice to differentiate mathematics learning stations in an elementary classroom at San Diego Cooperative Charter School.

Absolute Zero
A High Tech High project from the class of 2010. Created in the Fall 2009 Semester, this book covers an array of topics from Andrew Gloag's senior physics class.

Ampersand
High Tech High Media Arts' 11th grade wrote & produced Ampersand to document their thoughts and experiences as interns in the working world of San Diego.

Beauty and the Beach.
A collaboration by students of High Tech Middle North County. All profits from the sale of Beauty and the Beach will be donated to the Surfrider Foundation.

Black Holes. What are they?
Written by Ethan Chan and Michael Thompson, currently 9th grade students at High Tech High. The books explains the concept of black holes in a manner simple enough for a child to understand.

Calculicious
A collaboration between Jeff Robin, art teacher, and Andrew Gloag, senior math teacher.

Projects and Practices:

A Hero In My Eyes
Students utilized literary devices, sensory details, and the narrative form to create a written character sketch of their hero in a heroic moment.

Aboriginal Art
Middle school students created an animal self-portrait using the traditional dotting technique and abstract design elements used by aborigines.

Ampersand
In January 2010, HTHMA juniors left the traditional school structure and became interns in the working world of San Diego. These students took on professional roles and identities as they developed software, wrote for local...

Analog Flash for Windows
An engineer, artist, and a physicist develop a Senior Project where students create mechanical interactive displays that fit window frames at HTH.

Body Language Intersession
The content of this intersession confronted the powerful media culture that inspires low self-esteem, eating disorders, and frustration among middle school girls.  The project was aimed at bolstering self-esteem and...

Candy in a Strange Land

I am always trying to think of ways, beyond grades, to motivate my students to create beautiful work. For this project I used the power of models, cross grade level collaboration, and a culminating exhibition to...

Chemical Identity Masks
Students created masks that represented their social identity and a chemical element that they felt best symbolized their personality.

Civil Rights Museum by Melissa Vincent
After studying various civil rights issues in class, the students were assigned a culminating project to showcase one specific movement in our Civil Rights Museum for Exhibition Night. Students were assigned to work in...

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