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 $8.00 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© (Kindergarten, Standard K.L.2)
Creepy, crawly, weird and wacky. Discover the incredible life of insects and arachnids. From egg to adult, journey through the life cycle of butterflies and beetles. View the world as an insect through dragonfly glasses. Get excited as we touch real bugs! Our live critters will amaze you!

Let's Make Sense© (Kindergarten, Standard K.L.2)
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.


Matter Really Matters© (Kindergarten, Standard K.P.4)
Learn how much matter matters!Have fun sorting, classifying and mixing to experiment with different properties and materials. Use eyedroppers to observe property changes and eat the results-gummy drops!

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!

Jurassic Jr.© (Kindergarten-1st grade)
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


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.© (1st grade, Standard 1.E.3)
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.

Dig It Jr.© (1st grade, Standard 1.E.4)
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!

Smarty Plants© (1st grade, Standard 1.L.5)
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 turn white carnations blue. See why its important to "have good roots". Get all the "SEEDY" facts.

"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


Get Buggy© (2nd grade, Standard 2.L.5)
Creepy, crawly, weird and wacky. Discover the incredible life of insects and arachnids. From egg to adult, journey through the life cycle of butterflies and beetles. View the world as an insect through dragonfly glasses. Get excited as we touch real bugs! Our live critters will amaze you!

Forces© (2nd grade, Standard 2.P.4)
Get in motion as we push and pull to discover some fantastic physics! Observe how forces, including magnetism, cause motion. Use tuning forks and make a "rubber banjo" to understand how vibrations create sound. Experiment to see if you can make circular, zigzag and backwards motion patterns. Even amaze yourself when we use suction to lift our desks to see and feel how strong forces can be!

Magnet Makers© (2nd grade, Standard 2.P.3, 2.P.4)
Get "attracted" to the magnificent properties of magnets. Repel and attract magnetic cars, make rings float and much more! Transfer magnetism through water, wood and other media. Learn how to make a magnet and find out how useful they are!

Weather or Not© (2nd Grade, Standard 2.E.2)
Travel through the water cycle, touch a cloud and make your own snow! Use thermometers to measure air and water temperature. Discover seasonal changes with our all weather toss. Learn about storms as you test your strength against the suction force of air pressure, spin a tornado and touch lightning in a safe way.

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!

Homemade Fun© (2nd grade, Standard 2.L.5)
Link up to the food chain and build a model shelter from clay. Discover through card game fun how different animals need different environments. Solve the life cycle and habitat model challenge.

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

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© (3rd grade, Standard 3.L.5)
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.

Dig It© (3rd grade, Standard 3.E.4)
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.

Edison's Workshop© (3rd grade, Standard 3.P.3)
Become an engineer and conduct some electrifying experiments!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. Create some "STATIC" as we touch lightning and discover all the hair raising facts.

'Fun'omena© (3rd grade, Standard 3.E.4)
Put on 3-D glasses to see some of the Earth's most impressive features like you've never seen them before. From earthquakes to erosion, learn about the Earth's slow and rapid processes which cause these phenomena. Have FUN as we make them happen in your classroom.

Gas Blast© (3rd grade, Standard 3.P.2)
Have a blast experimenting with the three states of matter and their properties. Perform a "cool" physical change and eat the result-ice cream! Feel the excitement "heat up" as we experiment to discover the unique properties of water. You will never forget air has volume when we blast you with our air blaster!


(Heat) Energee & Me© (3rd Grade, Standard 3.P.2)
HEAT up the excitement in your classroom as we experiment with this hot topic. Test insulators and conductors. See and feel ways heat can be produced by understanding the conservation of energy law. Get energized as we experiment with conduction, convection and radiation in a safe way.


Finally Fun Machines© (3rd grade, Previous Standard 3-5)
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.

Vibes© (3rd grade, Previous Standard 3-5)
Catch a sound wave as we learn about pitch, intensity, wavelength and frequency. Make sound travel through different states of matter and investigate the ear, how we hear and much more!

Global Fever© (3rd grade, Previous Standard 3-3)
Discover the effects of Earth's cycles! Explore rising sea levels and carbon footprints as we learn how to make the world even more cool!

"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

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.

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!

Meteorology Madness© (4th grade, Standard 4.E.2)
Learn the elements of weather, and see the water cycle in action. Use real weather instruments to measure temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed, and wind direction. Make and take home your own weather vane. Understand the causes and effects of severe weather.


Our Living Planet© (4th grade, Standards 4.E.2, 4.E.3)
Discover why the Earth is our living planet. Catch some rays as we detect ultraviolet light. Reach for the sky as we learn about our atmosphere and touch clouds. Make your own biome to take home.

Power of Light© (4th grade, Standard 4.P.4)
Get out of the dark and "REFLECT" on the world of visible light. 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© (4th grade, Standard 4.P.4)
Catch a sound wave as we use different sizes of tuning forks to learn about vibrations, pitch, volume, wavelength and frequency. Observe sound travel through different states of matter. Investigate the ear, how we hear and much more!

Smarty Plants© (4th grade, Standard 4.L.5)
Learn about the needs of plants, their characteristics and their adaptations as we make a terrarium to take home and observe how our plants grow. Get a hands-on look at the structural characteristics of flowering plants and how they function as we dissect our real, live plants and turn white carnations blue. See why its important to "have good roots". Get all the "SEEDY" facts.

Edison's Workshop© (4th grade, Previous Standard 4-5)
Become an engineer and conduct some electrifying experiments!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. Create some "STATIC" as we touch lightning and discover all the hair raising facts.

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

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.

Sea Ya' Later© (5th grade, Standard 5.E.3)
Dive into oceanography and explore sea floor topography. Discover how the moon influences our tides. Experiment to understand the difference between currents and waves, and learn how they affect our coast.

Mixed Up Molecules© (5th grade, Standard 5.P.2)
Become a chemist and experiment with the three states of matter to understand their physical properties. Mix up a "cool" solution, freeze it and eat the result - ice cream! From stirring to separating, we'll get the solution as we experiment with solubility, solvents and solutes.

Newton in the Nutshell© (5th grade, Standard 5.P.5)
Get in motion and stay in motion as we experiment with force and the laws of motion by launching rockets, designing inclined highways and more! Realize your "POTENTIAL" as we test gravity, inertia and friction.

Finally Fun Machines© (5th grade, Standard 5.P.5)
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.


Silly Cells© (5th grade, Previous Standard 5-2)
Shrink down to a cell and explore the smallest unit of life. Investigate the difference between a plant and animal cell by making a delicious cellular snack. Use microslides to closely magnify and examine real animal and plant cells. Cell-a-brate your knowledge learning how you are unique!

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


Globs, Goo & Guts© (3rd-5th grade, health science)
Dare to become a Doctor or Veterinarian as we touch real cow hearts, kindeys, stomachs and more! WOW! Roll up your sleeves and make all kinds of icky, sticky stuff! Have a hands-on look at real cow muscle. Learn the systems of the body, find out what makes us tick and how to stay healthy.

Nutty Nutrients© (1st-3rd grade)
Get the essentials as we learn about the food groups. Have FUN as we test for protein, starch and fat. Become a food archeologist and climb the great food pyramid. Experiment with vitamins, learn to make healthy choices and much more!


The Real McCoy© (Kindergarten-5th grade)
Join us on a fun filled adventure as we discover several very famous African American scientists. Learn about their incredible contributions to science. Have FUN as we do some real cool experiments while honoring these great scientists. Perfect for Black History Month!

"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!