Shanghai High School promotes the transformation of students' learning styles mainly through research-based learning, especially in the form of project research. The purpose of carrying out project research is to enable students to learn the methodology of the project, experience the research process, cultivate a sense of problem awareness, emphasizing scientific attitude and spark off spirits of innovation. The subject research divides the operation into the following phases:

Grade 10:

Students are required to complete in Grade 10 one major subject assignment and one minor subject essay in the first semester, and one guided minor essay in the second semester.

Grade 11:

Through the implementation of self-selected topics, students experience all phases of the research process: selecting a mentor, defining the research proposal, keeping a research log, writing a research report, and summarizing their research experience.

Grade 12:

Students need to work with refined research topics. In Grade 12, students can propose further refined research topics based on the research that they have conducted during their first year and second year. This allows them to advance their explorations in areas of interest and enhance their innovative capabilities.

Since the implementation of the “Early Cultivation of Innovative Literacy Program”, our school has put the science and technology class, engineering class and experimental groups in the core curricula, and carries out students' research on innovative topics throughout the whole school. This occurs through science and technology festivals, special courses for science and technology classes and engineering classes, and development classes. more than ten fields are covered, such as physics, chemistry, information science, life science, engineering and so on. Students have won a large number of advanced awards in the National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition, Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition, and Science and Technology Selection: Stars of Tomorrow.

The following displays a part of the award-winning research projects in the past two years.