Designing Cool

In this task, students will collaborate with a landscape architect to redesign part of High Tech High.

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 5 examples
3. Additional Resources: Teacher reflections, student reflections

Dirt Detectives

In this task, students will roleplay as archaeologists. They will create a culture bag that they feel best represents them and present it to the class. Afterwards, students will create a box at home with various items in dirt. Back in class, students will "dig" through artifacts and use notes from the presentations to correlate people to artifacts and glean information about each other. They will use this project to gain a better understanding about how archaeologists use artifacts to learn about the past. 

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 4 examples
3. Video: Completed project from one student
4. Additional Resources: 5 handouts/worksheets, rubric.

Do the Project Yourself, First

In this task, the teacher will perform the task before assigning to students in order to work through any possible problems and complications. 

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Video: explanation of what Problem Based Learning is. 
3. Additional Resources: model resume, example student resumes, timelines

E if for Egypt

In this task, students will spend several weeks learning about ancient Egypt. Each individual will focus on a particular aspect of the civilization and write/illustrate a page to be put in a collectively-made class book. 

This task includes:

1. Task Description
2. Student Work; 5 examples
3. Assessment Activites: Assesment activities, about the author, content topics, CA state standards