The German Embassy invites you to take a virtual field trip of scientific discovery to Germany. Join science journalist Joachim Hecker as he takes a class through the Phänomenta, a hands-on science museum in Lüdenscheid. There students learn how science works in our daily lives. From demonstrating high and low pressure using a chocolate egg to explaining the theory of relativity, he offers up a little bit of science for everyone!

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About the Video

Language: English

Length: 10 minutes, 23 seconds

The Topics are appropriate for middle school and above.

The students appearing in the video are in the 10th grade.

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Extra Resources Relating to the Video (German and English)

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• The experiment itself is over 170 years old.
• On the American side, a Foucault Pendulum was once famously located in the National Museum of American History

• Pneumatic tube systems are best known today from bank drive through windows. Past uses including carrying messages around large buildings, such as at the Central Intelligence Agency.
• The system also sent mail to other cities.

• Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on light, but he is probably best known for his Theory of Relativity.

• Make your own kaleidoscope.