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Fall 2021, Gary & Jerri-Ann Jacobs High Tech High
While investigating the water nearest us, visiting the San Diego River, exploring tide pools, snorkeling around a student-made reef, discovering San Diego's drinking water sources, and listening to the ocean, students answered three essential questions:
Where is our water?
How does water affect us?
How can we affect water?
Students started by learning where our local water is, spent time focusing on how we as San Diegans affect that water, and transversed how it affects us. In order to integrate their knowledge of math, physics and humanities, students dived deep into topics of sustainability, development, economics, water purification and more.
Spring 2022, Gary & Jerri-Ann Jacobs High Tech High
Students immersed themselves in the history of early civilizations, the classical ages, and the middle ages, exploring the time periods through the mediums of time, communication, construction, and sustenance to answer the essential question:
What did history look and feel like for the people living in it?
To learn about each time period, they lived through the daily lives and essential tools of various time periods through activities such as camping, building fires, creating clay tablets, binding books to contain their knowledge, and building pens and catapults to understand the lives of individuals over the course of time.
To integrate the math, physics, and humanities of the various time periods into a final product, students lived history by crafting and performing a play that enacted scenes from the different classical civilizations and the topics we discussed this semester.
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