Source High Tech High School
Subject Art
Grade Level 6 |
Newspaper Plays: A Year in Review!
In this task, students will present the last year in news through artistic performances and original scripts.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: Six examples
3. Additional Resources: About the authors, teacher reflections, learning goals, timeline.
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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
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Source High Tech High School
Subject Mathematics
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Open Ended Math Problems
In this task, teachers will be intructed on how to implement open ended math problems in their teaching.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 4 examples
3. Additional Resources: Sample problems, teacher to teacher, references
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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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Source High Tech High School
Subject Humanities
Grade Level 7 |
Out of This World
In this task, students will will answer the question, "What one lesson would you want to teach the world?" by creating a world inspired by The Little Prince.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: Six examples
3. Additional Resources: Learning goals, Timeline, Artistic Statement Outline
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Source High Tech High School
Subject Art
Grade Level 6 |
Paper Bag Plays
In this task, students will work in groups to write a play and develop their understandings of the components that go into writing one.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 5 examples
3. Videos: First is about a drama teacher giving a speech the colleagues about the importance of teaching your passions. Second is an example of students writing their play
4. Additional Resources: Final draft requirements, student guidelines, teacher reflections, lesson plan, rubric, learning goals, content topics, timeline, assessment activities
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Source High Tech High School
Subject Art, Multimedia, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Picasso's Influence on HTH
In this task, students will create a piece of artwork by first using photoshop and then paint.
This task includes:
1. Task Dscription
2. Student Work: 1 example
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Source High Tech High School
Subject Mathematics, Chemistry, Multimedia, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Pinhole Photography
In this task, students will create their own digital artwork by first creating a pinhole camera, developing their film, and uploading to the computer to be altered.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 1 example
3. Additional Resources: Teacher reflection, student reflection
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Source High Tech High School
Subject Humanities
Grade Level 6 |
Pompeii: Scenes of Desctruction
In this task students will write, direct, and perform plays based on events happening when Mt. Vesuvius was erupting in Pompeii in 79 AD.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 6 examples
3. Additional Resources: About the author, student reflections, teacher reflections, learning goals, CA state standards, required materials, timeline, real life connections
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Source High Tech High School
Subject Mathematics
Grade Level 11 |
Projectile Motion
In this task, students will create an experiment in which they build a device to study projectile motions, exploring what factors effect the motion of the projectile.
This task includes:
1. Task Dscription
2. Student Work: 6 examples
3. Additional Resources: Teacher reflections, learning goals, CA state standards, rubrics, 8 handouts.
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