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High Tech High School

Subject
English Language Arts, Multimedia, Interdisciplinary

Grade Level
11, 12

HTHMA: Invisibility

In this task, students will explore the "invisible" aspects of society and bring them to the forefront through a multimedia presentation using documentaries, photo and sound essays, and video installations.

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 1 example
3. Additional Resources: Teacher reflections

Source
High Tech High School

Subject
Art, Biology, Humanities, Interdisciplinary

Grade Level
11

In Sickness and In Health

In this task, students will explore the idea of personalized medicine in the modern world.

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 10 examples 
3. Additional Resources: Teacher reflections, student reflections, 

Source
High Tech High School

Subject
Art, Humanities, Mathematics, Science, Multimedia, Interdisciplinary

Grade Level
10

International Geographic Project

In this task, students will collaborate as a class in creating a magazine modeled after National Geographic that answers the essential question, "How are things different when you cross the US/Mexico border and why?".

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 6 examples
3. Additional Resources: About the authors, learning goals, CA state standards, class job application, project sheet, rubrics

Source
High Tech High School

Subject
Humanities, Multimedia, Interdisciplinary, Science

Grade Level
9

Into the Wild Project

In this task, students will appreciate the beauty of nature in the modern world. They will create camping gear using their knowledge of physics and other disciplines and then take these new tools out into the wild for a class camping trip. 

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Teacher reflections, student reflections

Source
High Tech High School

Subject
Humanities, Multimedia, Interdisciplinary

Grade Level
9, 10, 11, 12

Lost Postcard Collection

In this task, students will roleplay as Odyssues, cataloging their journeys through the book through a series of postcards.

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 1 example
3. Additional Resources: Teacher reflection

Source
High Tech High School

Subject
Chemistry, Humanities, Interdisciplinary

Grade Level
10

Love and War

In this task, students will explore the question of whether or not love and war are related. Students will learn about war through World War II texts,  delve into the ways chemicals have been used in warfare, and culminate in writing their own newspaper article. Alternately, students will learn about love through reading poetry and creating their own perfume after studying about pheramones. 

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 3 examples
3. Additional Resources: Student handout, content topics, CA state standards, timeline.

Source
High Tech High School

Subject
Biology, Humanities, Multimedia, Interdisciplinary

Grade Level
9, 10, 11, 12

Media Saves the Beach

In this task, students will examine what affects the local coastal ecosystem to determine what makes the water safe to enter.

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Teacher reflections, student reflections

Source
High Tech High School

Subject
Humanities, Science, Interdisciplinary

Grade Level
8, 9

My Space, My Element

In this task, students will create an electronic board game based on the world geography in 1492.

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 2 examples
3. Additional Resources: Teacher reflections, learning goals, CA state standards, required materials, timeline, challenge activity, scoring sheet

Source
High Tech High School

Subject
Humanities, Mathematics, Interdisciplinary

Grade Level
8

O, The Places You'll Go

In this task, students will roleplay as themselves attending their ten year highschool reunion. They must come up with the dream life and research and calculate the costs of having this life to talk about at the reunion.

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Video: example of 8th grade students planning out their next 20 years.
3. Additional Resources: About the authors, student product checklist, project rubric, goals and content topics, timeline, project extensions and real world connections

Source
High Tech High School

Subject
Humanities, Mathematics, Interdisciplinary

Grade Level
6

Our Mathematical Adventure

In this task, students will write a novel incoperating the areas of art, writing, and math that will be based off of The Number Devil.

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 8 examples
3. Video: Students turn math principles into fictional pieces.
4. Additional Resources: Teacher reflections, collaborative decision making, learning math through fictional writing.

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