Elementary Programs

Serving the Lowcountry

We Come To Your School!
High Touch High Tech offers fun and educational 90 minute in-school science "field trips" that transform your classroom into a Living Laboratory! Kids become scientists and learn by doing the actual experiments. These programs are totally hands-on and totally participatory ey each child.

Our fee is $8.50 per student; teachers and parent chaperones participate free of charge. Parents or the PTA/PTO usually pay the fees. Schools currently receiving outside grants may use them for High Touch High Tech programs.

Series Discount Special:
Book 3 or more programs per grade and receive $0.50 off per student per program.

High Touch High Tech provides all equipment and materials in this supply intensive educational experience. Each student receives a science certificate, and many programs provide take home experiments. Reservations are required and must be accompanied by a $50.00 non-refundable deposit, which gets credited to the balance upon completion, to hold your field trip space.

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*Meets South Carolina Academic Standards & National Science Student Performance Standards

Frequently Asked Questions

Kindergarten Through Fifth Grade Programs *We are in the process of updating our programs to reflect the new South Carolina College and Career Ready Science Standards 2021. As a result, some programs may not reflect the alignment as listed.

All programs are adaptable for any grade level.
Grades listed correspond to SC Academic Standards.

Get Buggy© (K-LS1-1, K-ESS3-1)
Discover what plants and animals (even insects and arachnids!) need to live and grow. Create a model to show the relationship between animals and where they live...then eat the result! Yum!

Forces© (K-PS2-1, K-PS2-2)
Get in motion as we push and pull to discover some fantastic physics! Explore how the strength and direction of forces affects motion, and have fun using force to test your strength, race cars and other fun investigations! 


Weather or Not© (Kindergarten, K-ESS2.D, K-ESS3.B, K-PS3.B)
Heat up with energy as we learn how the sun warms the Earth's surface to fuel the water cycle, touch a cloud and make your own snow to keep! Use thermometers to investigate and compare warm and cool water. Learn all about how the sun, water and wind cause different weather conditions and about natural hazards as we spin a tornado, touch a model of lightning in a safe way and more!

Let's Make Sense© 
Have FUN as we make sense out of our senses. Explore and experiment with our 5 senses, 1 sense at a time.Discover how much we rely on our senses.

Jurassic Jr.© 
Step back in time to the age of the dinosaurs. Become a paleontologist and discover real fossils. Make a fossil rubbing, dig for your own fossil and create a clay fossil to keep! See and touchh different kinds of these natural Earth wonders!

"All three classes enjoyed the program. It was informative and appropriate for their level. I would recommend this to others! Thank you!"
Janet McDonald, Christ Our King-Stella Maris School, Mt. Pleasant, SC

1st grade:

Me and My Shadow© (1st grade, 1-PS4-1, 1-PS4-2, 1-PS4-3, 1-PS4-4 )
Conduct investigations to learn all about the properties of light and sound! Use flashlights and mirrors to reflect light and observe it bounce and change directions. Observe how light can pass through some materials and others it can't creating a shadow. Use flashlights and shadow puppets to create a shadow show. Feel the vibration as we experiment with tuning forks and prove vibrations makes sound, and sound can cause vibrations! Build your own instrument to keep! (Alternatively, solar bracelets to make and keep could be substituted for instruments by request.)

Cosmic Capers, Jr.© (1-ESS1-1, 1-ESS1-2))
Become an astronaut as we explore the relationships between the sun and the moon. Experiment with flashlights to understand sunlight, shadows and the patterns of the day and night sky. See the moon change before your own eyes. Enjoy some astronaut freeze-dried ice cream.

Smarty Plants© (1-LS!-1)
Learn about the basic needs of plants, their environments and their life cycles as we make a terrarium to take home and grow. Get a hands-on look at the parts of the plant and how they function as we change the color of our carnation, and keep it!. See why its important to "have good roots". Get all the "SEEDY" facts.

Dig It Jr.© 
Explore the world of Geology. Learn about rocks and minerals and where they come from. Pan for real gemstones and keep what you find! Have fun sorting and classifying your by their physical appearance like a geologist!



"It was great! It met SC standards, kept students interest, moved along at an appropriate pace, and it was so much fun! Awesome program! Thank you."
Janelle Fedrich, Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary, Charleston, SC

2nd grade:

What's the Matter© (2nd grade, 2-PS1-1, 2PS1.A, 2-PS1-2, 2-PS1-3)
Learn what is matter as we play a fun game to describe and classify different materials by their observable properties and figure out their intended purpose. Investigate and observe how the properties of a sticky liquid can change into a stretchy solid and keep the result- silly putty! Use your imagination and a small set of edible pieces to build a big object, dissamble it, build a new object and eat your final creation!

Fun'omena© (2-ESS1-1, 2-ESS2-1, 2-ESS2-2)
From volcanic eruptions and earthquakes to erosion, create and model these natural phenomena in your classroom! Discover how some of Earth's changes occur rapidly while some occur slowly, and what we can do to help preserve the land. Create your own volcano to keep!

Homemade Fun© (2-LS2-1, 2-LS2-2. 2-LS4-1)
Have fun learning about interdependent relationships between plants and animals in ecosysytems. Become a bee using colors to show how bees help pollinate plants. Create a seed to model and understand how animals help in seed dispersal. Explore diversity within habitats. What do plants need to grow? Conduct an investigation to find out.

Smarty Plants© (2-LS2-1, 2-LS4-1)
Learn about the basic needs of plants, their environments and their life cycles as we make a terrarium to take home and grow. Get a hands-on look at the parts of the plant and how they function as we change the color of our carnation, and keep it! See why its important to "have good roots". Get all the "SEEDY" facts.

"Outstanding! The students loved it, and it matched our state standards for science very nicely."
Collette Meyers, Flowertown Elementary, Summerville, SC

3rd grade:

Newton in the Nutshell© -3rd grade  (3-PS2-1, 3-PS2-2, 3-PS2-3, 3-PS2-4)
Get in motion and stay in motion as we experiment with balanced and unbalanced forces to test their effects on the motion of an object. Prove with evidence that patterns in motion can predict future motion. Explore static electricity as well as magnetic interactions. What affects the strenth and direction of the magnetic force? Investige to find out! End with a blast by using unbalanced force to launch rockets, weather permitting!

Survive and Thrivel© -3rd grade (3-LS3-1, 3LS3-2, 3-LS3-2, 3-LS1-1)                 Life cycles and traits…learn all about them! Use microslide viewers, similar to microscopes, to view different aspects of diverse life cycles and examples of traits. Create a model of a complete metamorphosis to keep, and observe live larva. Make a terrarium to keep to observe the plant life cycle. Explore and discover different inherited animal traits like bird beaks and insect eyes in a fun, hands on way and learn all about acquired traits, too. Build an “edible animal” giving it both acquired and inherited traits, and eat (if you choose to) your finished model!

The Chain Gang© (3-LS4-3, 3-LS4-4, 3-LS3-1)
Connect to the web, the food web. Transfer the flow of energy through producers, consumers, and finally decomposers. Become a Wildlife Ecologist and dissect owl pellets to learn about predator/prey relationships and food chains. Discover how physical adaptations allow animals to adapt to their environment.

Finally Fun Machines© (3-PS2-1)
Finally, a hands-on and FUN program using machines to understand force and motion. Get into position as we build a big machine- a crane that attaches to our desk! See how force affects its motion. Feel the difference in force as we use it to lift objects with differenct masses. Become "energized" as we use gravity to drive cars down inclined "highways" with our machine to measure speed and direction.

Meteorology Madness© (3-ESS2-1, 3-ESS3-1)
Learn the elements of weather, and see the water cycle in action. Make model snow from water to keep that looks and feels real, but won't melt! Use real weather instruments to measure temperature, wind speed, and wind direction. Make and take home your own weather vane. Understand the causes and effects of severe weather.

Dig It©
Rock on into world of Geology.Pan for real gemstones and keep what you find! Sort and classify your gemstones by their properties and perform tests to identify them. Get to the "core" of things as we discover the layers of the Earth and igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock.

"Excellent program! I will not hesitate to use this program again or other programs from this company."
Kristie Horseman, M.C. Riley Elementary, Bluffton, SC

4th grade

Energee & Me© (4th Grade, 4-PS3-1, 4-PS3-2, 4-PS3-3, 4-PS3-4)
Get energized as we investigate the conservation of energy law and energy transfer. Construct a design to prove that the speed of an object relates to its energy. Observe energy transfer as we generate heat from collisions. Experiment with energy transfer through motion and sound, and even transfer energy by electric currents to produce light and sound.

Edison's Workshop© (4-PS3-2, 4-PS3-4)
Become an engineer and conduct some electrifying experiments! Get "energized" as we convert electricity to light, sound and magnetism. Learn what's "CURRENT" as we use insulators and conductors to connect simple, parallel and series circuits to light light bulbs, ring bells and make electromagnets. 

Go with the Flow© (4th grade, 4-ESS1-1, 4-ESS2-1, 4-ESS2-2, 4-PS4.A)
Construct a model to investigate how erosion happens and its effects. Add some "vegetation," change the slope and test the volume of the water flow to observe how those variables effect erosion. Make some waves but look out! You may get a little splash from the water moving up & down! Learn how waves, the beach and erosion are related. Understand the Earth's surface and its features with our large, 3D, topographic map of the Earth, including the features of the ocean floor. Find and keep a little fossil, and learn how fossils reveal changes in the Earth's surface over time due to Earth's forces, like volcanos and earthquakes. See it happen when we make a "seamount" erupt!

Power of Light© (4-PS4-2)
Get out of the dark and "REFLECT" on the world of visible light to learn how we see. Put on our prism glasses to meet ROY G. BIV and discover the electromagnetic spectrum. Experiement with refraction using convex and concave lenses."See" how reflection, refraction and absorbtion are related to transparent, translucent and poaque materials.

Vibes© (4-PS3-2, 4-PS4-1, 4-PS3-4, 4-LS1-2)
Catch a wave as we use different sizes of tuning forks to learn about motion, vibrations, wavelength and amplitude. Transfer energy through different states of matter to discover how waves cause motion. Use a model of the ear to learn how we hear. Create your own sound device to keep!

Smarty Plants© (4-LS1-1, 4-LS1-2)                                                                       Dissect a real plant to observe its internal structures. Learn how its structures support growth and survival. See some of these functions in action as our white carnations change color and keep your result- a beautiful, live, colored carnation! Finish by learning about body systems in animals, too, with a hands-on look at a cow heart and other internal structures! (Alternatiive activity- make a terrarium to keep.)

Globs, Goo & Guts© (4-LS1-1, 4-LS1-2)
Investigate our senses to learn how information is received and transmitted to our brain. Learn about the internal structures of animals like never before by putting on some gloves to get a hands on look at a real cow heart, cow bones and other internal organs. Learn how they function together to create our body systems.

"Hooked the students' interest! Made follow-up an easy and sure success event!"
Carole Ann O'Neal, Montessori Community School, Charleston, SC

5th grade:

The Chain Gang© (5th grade, 5-PS3-1, 5-LS1-1, 5-LS2-1)
Connect to the web...the food web. Transfer the flow of energy through producers, consumers, and finally decomposers by building your own edible ecosystem model. Learn about interdependent relationships in ecosystems as we dissect owl pellets. View examples of biotic factors in different ecosystems using microslides. Make your own terrarium to keep to observe and prove that plant growth depends on air and water.

Mixed Up Molecules© (5th grade, 5-PS1-1, 5-PS1-2, 5-PS1-3, 5-PS1-4)
Become a chemist and experiment with the three states of matter to understand the structure and properties of matter. Prove that the total weight of matter is conserved when a change happens and eat the cool result- ice cream! Perform an investigation to discover how two substances can cause a chemical reaction.

Cosmic Capers© (5th grade, 5-ESS1-1, 5-ESS1-2, 5-PS2-1, )
Travel through space as we explore our solar system and learn about our Earth's place in the universe. Make a model to understand why the sun appears larger and brighter than other stars.  Investigate why the Earth has nights, days and seasons as we explore the rotation and revolution of the Earth that cause these observable patterns. Make a sundial to understand how shadows change during the day in relation to the Earth's rotation. End with a blast as we launch rockets and observe how Earth's gravity will pull it back "down," with a model showing us "down" is directed to the center of the Earth.

Newton in the Nutshell© (5-PS2-1)
Get in motion and stay in motion as we experiment with force, gravity by launching water rockets, designing inclined highways and more! "Get down" with gravity!

Finally Fun Machines© (5-PS2-1)
Finally, a hands-on and FUN program using machines to understand force and motion. Get into position as we build a complex machine from simple machines- a crane that attaches to our desk! See how force affects its motion. Feel the difference in force as we use it to lift objects with differenct masses. Become "energized" as we use gravity to drive cars down inclined "highways" with our machine to measure speed and direction.



"The students were very engaged, enthusiastic learners! The program was aligned very appropriately with our state standards."
Lisa Walsh, Maryville Elementary, Georgetown, SC


"I cannot say enough times how exciting and wonderful this experience was for our 4th graders.This is something they will remember forever!"
Kathy Butler, James Island Elementary, Charleston, SC

High Touch High Tech: Science Education in a FUN Way Through Hands-On Exploration!

High Touch High Tech is a science field trip that transforms your classroom into a Living Laboratoryâ„¢ - the place where we learn by doing! Because programs are centered on the individual child's experience, many of them can be adapted, upon request, to meet other grade levels as well. Our experiments are structured to use materials that are safe and easy to identify. Students can duplicate many of these experiments at home with their parents.

We look forward to visiting your classroom soon!