Project Cards

Third graders at High Tech Elementary designed and built cardboard arcade games based on simple machines like levers, pulleys, and inclined planes

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

Fifth graders designed themed park lands based on cultural characteristics to inform their engineering and design choices.

This multi-grade art project had students create sea creatures out of recycled materials.

Students partnered with the SoCal Beep Baseball Association to design soldered equipment to make the game more available.

Students developed persuasive speeches about a local issue that was based in biology research to speak at a city council meeting

Students learned about music, rhythm, and self-awareness by creating instruments from objects made of glass.

Students designed deck graphics that intersected skateboarding and mental health

Students explored personal and inspirational forms of power through reflection, research, and creative storytelling.

Students explored humanity’s connection to animals through mythological and physical representations

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

Students created a digital video portrait of themselves using one of their personal poems written in English class

With the collaboration of a comic book artist community partner, students wrote and designed their own comics

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.

Craft activism to foster empathy, critical thinking, and civic engagement, encouraging students to express themselves on social issues through art

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

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

Twelfth grade students developed science based bilingual novels with elementary students

Students learned the history and biodiversity of the land to become documentarians of new stories