Lectures for children at the Polytechnic. Children's lecture halls: without boredom and cramming

The Children's Lecture Hall of the Moscow Zoo invites children from 6 before 12 years (possible with parents, or without - at the request of the participants) at the lectures of leading biologists - zoologists, oceanologists, ecologists and other scientists.

Famous researchers and young scientists, zoo employees, nature reserve workers and participants of exciting expeditions talk about the boundless and wonderful world around us and show by their own example that science is an exciting and important part of life.

Most of the lectures are held with a demonstration of animals. An interactive part is necessarily provided so that no one gets bored.

The children's lecture hall of the Moscow Zoo is a smart vacation for the whole family. We want children and adults to learn new things together, ask questions to scientists, participate in discussions and discuss everything they see and hear.

Each meeting with a scientist is a separate event, so you can join the Children's Lecture Hall at any time. At the same time, the program is designed in such a way that 5 lessons add up to a single cycle, within which lecturers from different sides cover some common issue.

Lectures are held on Saturdays in 12.00 and 14.00 , duration 1 hour.

Maximum number of students aged 6-12: 20 people.

You can order a repeat of some lectures for a school class or your company.

Price

*A child and two adults or two children and an adult. Families with many children receive a 20% discount (subject to supporting documents and a valid ticket or subscription for the first child).

Cycle No. 21 Anatomical history

No matter how a person strives to know the world around him, in the first place there will always be a desire to unravel the mysteries of his own history and organism, because there are an innumerable number of mysterious phenomena here.

How did certain organs evolve? What could we be if evolution took a different path? We will tell about this and many other things in simple language and take a trip through the nooks and crannies of the human body in lectures. 8, 15, 22, 29 February and 7 March.

What have our bones forgotten?

The skeleton is an integral part of our body. It protects our body, maintains its structure, helps us run and jump. Without it, we would look like slugs, or, well, like octopuses.

Where did our skeleton come from? Is it possible to find traces of fins and scales in your skeleton? What do we have left of the tail? Yaroslav Popov, a paleontologist at the Darwin Museum, will help answer these and other burning questions.

Homework: remember what bones of the skeleton do you know? What bones do other animals have that we don't?

Yaroslav Popov

Chemical laboratory inside us

The formation of the human digestive system is one of the mysteries for scientists. A whole team of substances and even bacteria work on the digestion of a sandwich or a candy! And our stomach produces hydrochloric acid inside itself - one of the most caustic and corrosive compounds in nature, and at the same time does not digest itself.

At our meeting, we will consider the structure of one of the most important systems of the human body - the digestive system and try to unravel its mysteries. Let's find similarities and differences between the gastrointestinal tract of humans and some animals.

Anna Olsufieva

Candidate of Medical Sciences, Senior Lecturer, Department of Human Anatomy, Sechenov University.

Esthesiology: sense organs

Our guiding stars, our false guides in the ever-changing world of molecules, photons and waves are the sense organs. They in the true sense enliven us, distinguish us from oaks and birches. But they can also deceive us, distort the true picture of the world.

Lies for good or insidious troubles? Is clarity of perception possible? How many sense organs do we have? We will make a short journey through the back streets of our body together with Stanislav Drobyshevsky

Stanislav Drobyshevsky

65 million years of history

Man has gone through a long evolutionary path. Could the tiny, rat-like first primates have thought that in 65 million years their distant descendants would become the masters of the planet, and even begin to explore space? It is unlikely, and they had nothing special to think about.

At the lecture, you will learn about the main stages in the development of our ancestors, how their appearance, lifestyle and brain development changed. And how, in the end, we became who we are.

Homework: which of our organs grows throughout life?

Pipeline inside the body

The circulatory system connects our body into a single whole, blood vessels can be found in any part of the body. This can be compared with communications inside a house: vessels are pipes through which a pump, the heart, pumps fluid both day and night. How is this "pipeline" arranged? Why does the human heart have four chambers? How does it differ from the heart of some other living organisms, such as fish or frogs? This and much more will be discussed in the lecture.

Homework: think about why blood is needed in the human body? How many circles of blood circulation does a person have?

Dmitry Pashchenko

Graduate of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Junior Researcher, Laboratory of Paleoherpetology, Paleontological Institute. A. A. Borisyak RAS. Engaged in the study of ancient and modern crocodiles. Research interests: comparative anatomy, ecological physiology, biomechanics.

Past lectures

Magic Winter: New Year's educational program

On New Year's Eve and holidays, the zoo's guests will find many exciting activities. Within their framework, everyone will be able to discover the amazing secrets of the world of wildlife and gain valuable experience in communicating with animals.

From December 28 to January 8 The zoo will host exciting lectures, thematic workshops and special New Year's excursions. All activities are designed for families and will appeal to both the youngest nature lovers and their parents.

“In order for our visitors to spend the days of the New Year holidays as richly and productively as possible, we have prepared a special educational program for them. Its participants will be able to take a fresh look at the animal world, meet the amazing inhabitants of our zoo and learn about how we save rare species from extinction. All festive events have interactive elements, so our dear guests will not be bored,” said Svetlana Akulova, General Director of the Moscow Zoo.

Animal Demonstration Lecture “Snow Stories”

Outside the city, after a snowfall, an idyllic picture appears to our eyes - a white blanket covered the fields, gently wrapped the trees, birds and animals can now hide in the snow from frost. What role does snow play in animal life? How do animals adapt to the winter season? How can we help them to winter? We will talk about this in the lecture.

GAU "Moscow Zoo"

Lecture with demonstration of animals “Forest winter hut”

It is generally accepted that nature falls asleep in winter, but this is only partly true. While the forest sleeps, many animals lead an active lifestyle. The squirrel does not sleep in its warm nest-gain, the birds that remain to winter in their homeland and many other animals do not sleep. At the lecture, you will find out which of the forest dwellers are awake in winter and what they are doing while the rest are sleeping.

At the lecture you will be able to see: a rat, a ferret, a toad, a crow, a fox, an owl, a magpie, a duck, a snake.

* The list of demonstrated animals can be changed for objective reasons, at the discretion
GAU "Moscow Zoo"

Lecture with a master class “Mysteries of the North”

At the lecture, we will get acquainted with the extraordinary natural phenomena that can be observed in the Arctic Circle or in the cold season. We will find out what the northern lights are and how they arise, unravel the mystery of the appearance of frosty patterns on glasses and see dry years.

Cycle #20: Great Journey Through the Oceans

We offer you to go on an exciting journey deep into the oceans. The oceans are the birthplace of life on Earth, once the conditions of existence in it were more favorable for living beings than on land. What are the laws and rules of life on coral reefs, how the inhabitants of the northern seas adapt to harsh conditions, what amazing animals live in the depths of the ocean, we will find out 23, 30 November and 7, 14, 21 December.

Oceanology - the science of the ocean

Oceanology occupies a special place among the geosciences, if only because there are a great many "land" sciences, and marine science is still only one. Interest in the ocean is growing every year, the future of mankind can no longer be imagined without the use of ocean resources, and therefore ocean research is becoming more and more a priority.

At the lecture, we will talk about the World Ocean and its individual parts, about winds and currents, about sea ice, about the properties of sea water, about how complex processes in the ocean are studied from ancient times to the present, about modern oceanological instruments.

Sergey Mukhametov

Graduate of the Department of Oceanology, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University, participant in more than 20 expeditions.

The sea is worried

You can watch the waves endlessly. They are like the breath of the ocean. What are they? What is the maximum wave height and where are the largest waves in the world observed? How to escape catastrophic tsunami waves? How do waves affect marine life and how can they be useful to humans? You will learn about this and many other things from Igor Medvedev's lecture.

Igor Medvedev

Head of the Tsunami Laboratory of the Institute of Oceanology named after P.P. Shirshov RAS. Graduate of the Department of Oceanology, Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. Specialist in sea level fluctuations, sea waves, floods, tsunamis.

On thin ice

Let's talk about animals living in the extreme latitudes of the northern and southern hemispheres - the Arctic and Antarctic, about global warming, the melting of the polar caps and the impact of these processes on us.

We will learn about the unique ecosystem of the Arctic, completely dependent on sea ice, get acquainted with its most amazing secrets - the birth of thousands of pups on sea ice, the great migration through the Lancaster Strait, find out why the polar bear is a marine mammal and where to find the legendary sea unicorn.

Let's count how many species of penguins live in Antarctica, which of the seals is twice the size of a walrus, what the crabeater seal eats and who is the most terrible predator of Antarctica.

Stanislav Zakharov

Graduate of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, underwater and wildlife photographer, diving instructor. Guide and organizer of expeditions to the most unusual and inaccessible places on the globe.

coral reef world

Coral reefs are one of the most important ecosystems of the oceans, they are called "underwater gardens" or "marine forests". They are very beautiful and are home to almost a quarter of all marine organisms. Their origin is still controversial among scientists, and some features of the symbiosis of corals and unicellular algae have not been fully explored. In the lecture, we will find out which scientist was the first to discover that corals are animals, talk about how Charles Darwin explained the emergence of coral reefs, look at the different forms of corals and find out why they do not live in cold seas.

Homework: What was the home of Nemo the fish from Finding Nemo? Is it a plant or an animal?

Alexandra Tertitskaya

She graduated from the biological and pedagogical faculties of Moscow State University in 2005. By specialty, he is an invertebrate zoologist, he studies valuable species of crustaceans - crabs, crayfish and shrimps, their breeding and keeping in aquariums and in large fish farms. Participated in expeditions to the White and Barents Seas. He is fond of diving.

Secrets of the Mariana Trench

Mankind has always sought to unravel the mysteries of nature, but this is not at all easy to do. Currently, the depths of the ocean are extremely poorly explored, and more people have been in space than in the deepest place on our planet. At the lecture, together with marine biologist Svetlana Artemyeva, we will look under the canopy of this mystery and try to figure out what creatures are hiding in the abyss and how they manage to survive in such harsh conditions!

Svetlana Artemyeva

Graduate of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. For 10 years he has been working on expeditions on the territory of the former USSR. Of greatest interest is the study of the biology of the sea and marine fauna.

Cycle No. 19 Journey through the wild

Summer holidays are over, but that doesn't mean the travel time is over. We offer you to go to the wildest corners of the planet. We invite you to take a walk through the jungles of Latin America, watch the fauna of the Galapagos, walk along the hot sands of the Karakum, penetrate the dusk of the Siberian taiga.

Forward for new knowledge and impressions at the lecture 5, 19, 26 October and 9, 16 November!

Journey through the Jungle Book

India has long been known to Europeans as "Wonderland".
Many of us are familiar with the animal world of India mainly from stories.
and fairy tales by Rudyard Kipling. Tigers, leopards, red wolves, chill kite, mongoose, chuchundra rat and other characters seem to be well known to us: where and how do they live, are their "portraits" drawn by Kipling true? Who remained behind the pages of his books? We will talk about the wonders of nature in India at the lecture.

Homework: Kipling's Darzy bird sings: "Here on earth,
i am a tailor. I sew a house of leaves." Think about how the construction of this bird is better than the nests of other birds?

Pavel Kvartalnov

Zoologist, researcher at Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov, has been studying the behavior of birds for about 20 years. He worked in the tropical forests of Vietnam, Central Asia, the Far East and other regions of Russia.

Enchanted Islands

The Galapagos Islands are a place of contrasts that can amaze even seasoned travelers and scientists.

Here you will see a parched desert, and a tropical rain forest, sand dunes and gigantic volcanoes. Isolation and a unique microclimate gave rise to the amazing fauna of the Galapagos. How do arctic and tropical animals get along together on the islands? Where did giant tortoises and marine iguanas come from?
And why are the animals here not afraid of humans? We'll talk about this
at a lecture by biologist Grigory Tsidulko.

Grigory Tsidulko

Graduated from the biological faculty of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov in two specialties, a zoologist and an ecologist, is engaged in the study of cetaceans. He worked as a marine mammal trainer at the Moscow Zoo.
in the Sea of Okhotsk. In 2002-2009 he worked at the International Fund for Animal Welfare IFAW, studying and protecting marine mammals
in Russia. Member of the panel of independent experts of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN/IUCN).

The Wonderful World of the Amazon

Conditions are different in every corner of our planet.
and the Amazon is no exception. In this region, far from everywhere the human foot has set foot, and even today many of its areas are accessible only with great difficulty.

How can this incredible and inaccessible world surprise us? Ants that build giant underground cities and grow tons of mushrooms there, bright deadly frogs the size of a fingernail, the largest snakes in the world, animals with everything inside turned upside down and butterflies living in wool, mouse-like ancestors of kangaroos and many, many others.

Homework: why is there a huge number of different types of snakes and frogs in the Amazon jungle, and very few in Russia?

Alexander Gatilov

Leading member of the Experimental Department of Small Mammals, zoologist and ornithologist. Graduate of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. He took part in expeditions to the Taimyr Peninsula and the Nenets Reserve, where he studied the life of birds and animals of the tundra. Interested in terrariums.

Forest through the eyes of a bear

A huge part of the northern hemisphere is occupied by the taiga, which has a huge variety of wildlife. At the lecture we will talk about the owner of the taiga - the bear. Do we know everything about bears and their habits? What do they eat
and where do they sleep? What fatal role can a person play in the life of a bear family? At the lecture, we will look into the life of bears and talk about how to help cubs left without a mother learn to live in the wild. Vasily Pazhetnov, a hereditary biologist, whose family has been saving and raising orphaned bear cubs for more than 20 years, will tell us about this.

Vasily Pazhetnov

Biologist-hunter, employee of the Toropetsk biological station "Chisty Les" - the Center for the rehabilitation of orphaned bear cubs.

Life in the desert

During the lecture, we will get acquainted with one of the largest deserts in Central Asia - the Karakum desert. The real desert is the sharp temperature changes in different seasons and the absence of precipitation for most of the year. You will learn how inventive nature is and what methods of survival in unbearable desert conditions are used by different animals. In particular, we will talk about gerbils and jerboas, and other small mammals that live in this desert. You will get to know some of these amazing creatures better.

Olga Ilchenko

Graduated from Kalinin State University. university majoring in zoology. Has been working at the Moscow Zoo for almost 40 years, first in the scientific department,
and for the last 12 years he has been the head of the Experimental Department of Small Mammals. Small animals of the desert are one of the objects of her work. She studied their behavior in natural conditions - many times she went on expeditions to the desert regions of Turkmenistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kalmykia. She developed methods for keeping, breeding, hibernating many small animals living in deserts.

Cycle No. 18 Country stories

Many of us prefer to spend our summer holidays outside the city.
in nature, and our pets accompany us on vacation. How to recognize that the pet is sick, and not just getting used to a new place? How to give him first aid away from the city? What insects are useful
in the country, and which ones should be avoided?

We will be able to prepare for the summer season and answer all the questions at lectures on May 18 and 25, 2019.

Country neighbors

Incredible animals are found not only in the hot tropics. Many interesting creatures can be found even in a dacha in the suburbs.
At the lecture, we will talk about well-known and completely unfamiliar insects, learn about the differences between locusts and grasshoppers, get acquainted with the nurse spider
and lacewing, we will understand why bronzes take off so quickly. As an illustration, you can see the collection of insects.

Homework: What is the difference between wasps and bees?

Photo from the site: fotokto.ru

Fedor Martynovchenko

Employee of the Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology
Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov. Scientific interests: fauna and behavior of spiders. Conducts student practice. She works a lot with children, including in summer camps. At the Moscow Zoo, he leads the Manulata circle. Interested in biological delusions.

At the vet's appointment

“Good doctor Aibolit, he sits under a tree, come to him for treatment, both a cow and a she-wolf” - with these words from a well-known children's fairy tale, our acquaintance with the profession of a veterinarian began. At the lecture we will talk about the animals that live next to us - about our pets. How to properly care for them, what to feed and by what signs to determine the presence of the disease. Let's talk about who veterinarians are, when and why you need to contact them. Find out how our pets differ from us and how they are similar to us. We will conduct a real veterinary examination of the fluffy "patient", get acquainted
with the devices of modern "Aibolites" and join the sciences that any future veterinarian studies.
Homework: what is the normal body temperature for a rabbit? And for a parrot?

Maria Akinshina

Graduated from MGAVMiB them. K.I.Skryabina, specialty "Veterinary". Since 2014 has been engaged in veterinary ornithology
and studying the microflora of birds. He is a developer of practice-oriented classes for schoolchildren in the system of additional education in the areas of "veterinary medicine", "biotechnology", "microbiology".

Cycle No. 17 Wonderful planet: the biography of the Earth

Earth is the only celestial body known to us where life exists. Why did it happen? What is special about our planet? What processes helped its appearance, and what influenced the development of life?
Unraveling the intricacies of the evolutionary process is a favorite pastime of paleontologists. What led to our appearance? How did meteorites and continental movements, bacteria and dinosaurs influence this? We will learn about this and much more on March 30, April 6, 13, 20, 27, 2019.

Land before time

Earth has unique conditions that allow living organisms to exist, grow and evolve. But it was not always so. Billions of years ago, our planet was just a small grain of sand in the vastness of the Universe. And then a chain of cosmic events that triggered the formation of the solar system led to the formation of the Earth. At the lecture, we will go on a journey into the distant past, when the Sun had just lit up. The lecture will tell about the childhood of our planet; about how the conditions suitable for life appeared; how this first life began to develop and gradually conquer more habitable places, from the ancient seas and oceans to the first steps on land.

Homework: Think about what the Earth is made of? What could contribute to the development of life on the planet? Who were the first settlers on earth?

Tatyana Kulashova

Graduate of the Department of Paleontology, Faculty of Geology
Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov, former employee of the PIN RAS, specialist
on fossil scolecodonts (jaws of wandering polychaetes), employee of the Popular Geology Research Center.

When life became "explicit": from the "skeletal revolution" to the development of land

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the number of biological species dramatically increased on Earth, in addition to "invisible" bacteria, living beings visible to the eye appeared. Organisms with mineral skeletons, arthropods and chordates, developed, as well as complex forms of plants. The "skeletal revolution" led to the fact that a variety of living creatures mastered the land: from higher plants to four-legged vertebrates. At the lecture, we will learn what Phanerosa is, why it is called the eon of “manifest life” and what contributed to the “skeletal revolution”.

Homework: why is the skeleton so important for land-dwelling living creatures?

Alexander Bakaev

Junior researcher and postgraduate student of the Paleontological Institute. A.A. Borisyak RAS. Engaged in the study of ray-finned fish of the late Paleozoic. Graduated from the magistracy at the Department of Paleontology

and stratigraphy of the Faculty of Geology of the Kazan Federal University in conjunction with a master's program (double degree program)
at the Freiberg Mining Academy (Germany, Saxony).

Age of dinosaurs

Dinosaurs are huge lizards that have trampled our planet for one hundred and eighty million years in a row. Where did they come from? Is it true that they were the size of a house? Is it true that birds are surviving dinosaurs? Where did the dinosaurs go: died out from disease, were killed by a nightmarish asteroid, ate each other? You will learn about all this and much more by attending a lecture by Sergei Drobyshevsky.

Homework: think about which of the ancient animals is not a dinosaur.

Photo from the site: rus.tvnet.lv

Stanislav Drobyshevsky

Anthropologist, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov, scientific editor of the scientific and educational portal antropogenez.ru. Member of the Scientific and Expert Council of the "Community of Young Scientists", a participant in many archaeological expeditions; laureate of the "For Loyalty to Science" award in 2017 and the Belyaev Prize in 2018, finalist of the "Enlightener" award in 2017 and 2018.

Animal prehistory

What do mice, giraffes and humans have in common? A lot of things!
All these animals have wool (or hair), they are able to feed their young with milk, in a word they are mammals.

At the lecture, we will trace the difficult and difficult path of our ancestors: remember the incredible animal lizards; see how tiny animals hid in the shadow of dinosaurs; get acquainted with the bloodthirsty didelphodon; find out when the paths of cats and dogs parted; we will see how animals that look like fox-faced hippopotamuses have turned into graceful dolphins. And also you will meet with a long-necked rhinoceros, a saber-toothed tiger, a monkey - King Kong and a hellish boar!

Homework: modern mammals are very diverse, but still similar in many ways. Try to remember all the unique features of the animals. How easy is it to tell a mammal from a fish?

Photo from the site: 1zoom.ru

Popov Yaroslav

Graduate of the Department of Paleontology, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosova, researcher at the State Darwin Museum, curator of the paleontological collection. Fossil fish specialist.

Who we are and who we were

For many millions of years, an amazing race has been going on on our planet between different types of living organisms. Someone conquered the aquatic environment, someone mastered the air environment, and someone, unable to withstand this "competition", was preserved only in the form of fossil remains.

But what about people? The history of our development has several million years, and in such a short period of time our species has managed to reach considerable heights. Being part of the animal world, human ancestors adapted
to changing environmental conditions, developed new habitats, competed for prey with other animals. But who were these ancestors? How are we different from our ancestors?

At the lecture, we will consider the main stages of the formation of a person by a person; find out what we have in common with monkeys and what methods scientists use to reconstruct our evolutionary tree.

Homework: Scientists attribute the species Homo sapiens to the family of great apes. And despite the fact that our appearance has changed in the process of evolution, we have many features inherent in other primates. Look at yourself in the mirror and think about how we are similar and how we differ from them.

Photo from the site: autogear.ru

Cycle No. 16 Microbia - the invisible universe

Microbes are ubiquitous: they live at the bottom of the sea, and inside the human body, and deep underground, and high in the atmosphere. The number of microorganisms is unimaginably high. In 3 grams of fertile soil, their number can reach 6 billion - almost as many as people on Earth. All microbes have only one thing in common: microscopic size.

We will tell about the amazing abilities of microorganisms, their types and habitat, about the benefits and dangers of microbes for humans. February 9, 16 and March 2, 16, 23, 2019

The world of microbes and its inhabitants

Microbes surround us everywhere we go. Let's try to imagine that we are in a microcosm with many of its inhabitants. In the lecture, we will talk about the kingdoms of microorganisms and the differences between them. And, of course, we will not ignore the device that allowed us, people, to study and explore these small objects of wildlife. With the help of a microscope, we will try to "look" into the invisible world of microorganisms and even observe their life.

Homework:

We all know the simplest microorganism - the ciliate shoe. She was called a slipper because of the bizarre shape of the cage, resembling the foot of a human foot. And why exactly - infusoria? How does this relate to the history of its discovery? Who and where first discovered it?

Maria Akinshina

Graduated from MGAVMiB them. K.I.Skryabina, specialty "Veterinary".

Since 2014, he has been engaged in veterinary ornithology and the study of bird microflora. She is a developer of practice-oriented classes for schoolchildren in the system of additional education
in the areas of "veterinary medicine", "biotechnology", "microbiology".

I contain many

Microorganisms surround us everywhere and even live inside our body. Who are they, do our bodies need them, can they be harmful, and is it possible to be “friends” with them? We will try to answer these questions during the lecture. We will also learn how scientists study the microflora of the body and how this knowledge helps maintain human health and even assess the condition of wild animals in nature.

Denisenko Tatiana

Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Microbiology, MGAVMiB-MVA named after V.I. K.I.Skryabina, teacher of additional education, DTDiM named after A.P. Gaidar; scientific director of ANO "Scientific and Ecological Center for Dolphin Rescue "Delfa". Engaged in the study of microflora and diseases of marine mammals.

The connection of the microcosm with the macrocosm

Why do polar bears at the San Diego Zoo have green fur in summer? How many kilograms of microbes are in the human body? What bacteria can be bought at the pharmacy and why are they needed? We will talk about all this in the lecture. And we will also fantasize about what life would be like if there were no invisible "animals" around us.

Homework:

Why are some types of bacteria called cocci? What varieties of "cocci" inhabit the human body?

Budanova Elena

Associate Professor of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology of the First Moscow State Medical University. I.M. Sechenov. Research interests: mechanisms of formation of resistance of microorganisms to antibiotics. Study of antimicrobial activity of plants. The study of the biological safety of biotechnological strains of microorganisms and their impact
on the health of the population.

Superpowers of microbes

In the lecture, we will analyze why some bacteria are able to grow and multiply at very high or very low ambient temperatures, in areas exposed to radiation, in places with no or very low oxygen content. Let's talk about the formation of spores of bacteria that are resistant to heat, ultraviolet rays, antibiotics and other factors.

Homework:

Think about what features of bacteria can be beneficial
for humans, and which ones are harmful.

Mitrofanova Natalia

Microbiologist. Graduated from Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, is engaged in the study of the microbiological composition of the air in Moscow, worked
in the All-Russian Collection of Microorganisms.

Microbes at the service of science

Many of us associate bacteria with hostile organisms that cause disease. But some types of bacteria have become friends and helpers of man. In the modern world, they are successfully used
in various branches of science and industry.

At the lecture, we will talk about the use of bacteria in genetic engineering, in the food and chemical industries, in medicine, in agriculture, and even ... in construction! We learn that microorganisms "save" diabetic patients, help produce tasty and healthy food, purify water, help extract minerals (even gold), strengthen the foundation of houses!

Homework:

Think about what foods containing beneficial bacteria we eat?

Ivanova Natalia

Doctor and teacher, candidate of medical sciences, general director of the Microphoto company, author of a book on the effects of drugs and alcohol
on the human body "Choose your path. Make a wise choice."

Cycle No. 15 New Year's lectures

plant predators

In our swamps and in our forests, there are still unique plants - insectivorous sundews and butterworts. But, unfortunately, these plants are becoming very rare in nature due to environmental pollution and the destruction of their habitats.

At Sergey Kunitsyn's fascinating lecture, you will be able to learn a lot of interesting facts about these unique representatives of wildlife, watch their feeding and see how they hunt.

Each listener will receive a predator plant as a gift!

Sergey Kunitsyn

Specialist in the breeding and maintenance of predator plants, author of botanical expositions and scientific and educational shows.

Bioluminescence in the Animal Kingdom

At the lecture and master class, the guys will learn why some animals and objects glow in the dark, and they will also create their own invisible and luminous - luminescent - ink. Luminescence is the ability of some substances to glow due to the energy received. Special pigments, which are called "phosphors", are responsible for this process. It is they who convert into light the energy received from the sun, electric current or chemical reactions, including those occurring inside a living organism.

Utochnikova Valentina

Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Senior Researcher, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, as well as the founder and technical director of the innovative company SIA evOLED, which develops new phosphors.

Rules for a successful winter

Listeners will be told about animals that live in central Russia: how animals spend the winter, who and how prepares for winter, which of the animals makes “pre-holiday” stocks for the winter, who does not make stocks, but uses strangers, who sleeps, and who completely "moves" to warmer climes. And you will also learn how and to whom we can help to survive the harsh season. The lecture demonstrates: toad, hedgehog, squirrel, rat, polecat, fox, raccoon dog, mallard, falcon, raven, magpie, rook, owl

Cycle No. 14 Mutants of the planet Earth

Evolution forces animals to change in order to survive.
in a certain habitat. We offer you to go on a big journey around the world to follow the mutant animals, whose appearance and behavior changed when nature itself demanded it from them.

With the information support of the Internet edition "Mel"

Mutants of the Ice Continent

Adaptation - adaptation - is nothing but a "beneficial" mutation. Animals, especially those living in extreme places, really need these “beneficial” mutations. Antarctica is the largest desert on the planet, the coldest continent, but there is life here too.

At the lecture, we will talk about the “mutants” of the Far South, about how animals have adapted to life in the icy desert of Antarctica and the seas surrounding it.

Homework:

Why doesn't ice fish freeze and why doesn't a whale freeze, how to survive in the icy desert and dive 150 m?

Grigory Tsidulko

Graduated from the biological faculty of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov in two specialties, a zoologist and an ecologist, is engaged in the study of cetaceans. He worked as a marine mammal trainer at the Moscow Zoo.
Since 1997, the main interest has been in the study and protection of gray whales
in the Sea of Okhotsk. In 2002-2009 worked at the International Fund for Animal Welfare IFAW, engaged in the study and protection of marine mammals
in Russia. Member of the panel of independent experts of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN/IUCN).

Mutants of Eurasia

Eurasia is the largest continent with a wide variety of natural landscapes. Here you can find everything: dry deserts
and tropical rainforests, moss- and lichen-covered tundra
and grassy steppe. In all corners of Eurasia live amazing living creatures, so different from each other, but perfectly adapted to the world around them.
At the lecture, we will talk about how animals and plants adapt to cold and heat, who is more dexterous than others hiding from predators, and who can eat anyone himself, find out how relatives of elephants, rhinos and lions survived during the ice age, we will figure out why the saiga has a long nose , and musk deer sharp fangs and talk about many other mutants of Eurasia.

Homework:
Moscow is surrounded by forests where thousands of different animals, plants and fungi live. Consider how our trees and grasses have learned to survive the cold winter? How do our herbivores escape predators, and what tricks do predators use to get their own food? Who, in your opinion, is the best adapted to life in our forests?

Popov Yaroslav

Graduate of the Department of Paleontology, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, researcher at the State Darwin Museum, curator of the paleontological collection. Fossil fish specialist.

Australia: the most amazing on the smallest

Australia is the second most isolated continent after Antarctica. Australia has been home to strange creatures for millions of years, many of which are found nowhere else in the world. What are these creatures, why are they so diverse on the smallest continent and very different from animals common on other continents? What allowed rare ancient animal species to survive to this day
on the Australian continent? We will talk about all this in the lecture.

Homework:

Why do you think it's illegal to bring food and wildlife into Australia?

Alexandra Tertitskaya

Graduated from the biological and pedagogical faculties of Moscow State University
them. M.V. Lomonosov in 2005. By specialty, he is an invertebrate zoologist, he studies valuable species of crustaceans - crabs, crayfish and shrimps, their breeding and keeping in aquariums and in large fish farms. Participated in expeditions to the White and Barents Seas. Diving

Secrets of the black continent

Africa is the birthplace of the most unusual representative of the animal world of our planet - Homo sapiens. Until now, a variety of people
on the "black continent" is higher than anywhere else on Earth. However, amazing examples of evolution are also found in many groups of African animals.

We will talk about rodents that are similar in their lifestyle to social insects, about primates that play the role of woodpeckers in the forests of Madagascar,
about the hard-to-explain diversity of fish in African lakes, where within the same species there are individuals that are no more similar to one another than our crucian carp is to pike, as well as other animals whose secrets
naturalists have not yet been able to unravel.

Homework:

Africa, especially tropical Africa, is far from us. But many of our birds spend the winter south of the Sahara. Remember them. Which of our birds in their singing uses the voices of African birds heard on wintering grounds?

Gatilov Alexander

Leading member of the Experimental Department of Small Mammals of the Moscow Zoo, zoologist and ornithologist. Graduate of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University
them. M.V. Lomonosov. He took part in expeditions to the Taimyr Peninsula and the Nenets Reserve, where he studied the difficult life of birds and animals of the tundra. Interested in terrariums.

Cycle No. 13 Traveling animals. Who, where and why?

Migrations arose in animals in the process of evolution, but the reasons
their occurrence, the orientation of animals when moving over long distances are still the subject of research by scientists.

We will talk about the amazing facts of migration, about distance and speed records among mammals, birds and insects, about the secrets of navigation in lectures on October 6, 13, 20, 27 and November 10, 2018.

Orientation in space

Sometimes, especially when we get to a new place, we can easily get lost. In order to find our way, we use maps, satellite navigation, while our ancestors looked at the stars and the behavior of a needle in a cup of water, or even made peculiar flow patterns from branches and shells.

However, everyone knows that many animals easily find their way home without all these devices. What do they use to navigate in space? Whether animals use maps, where turtles hide the compass and what the frog's native pond smells like, you can find out in this lecture.

Homework:

What travel animals do you know? What can people use their abilities for?

Alexander Gatilov

“We are driven by the approach of winter ...”: bird flights

Since ancient times, bird migrations have aroused people's curiosity: where do birds disappear and where do birds periodically appear from?

At the lecture, we will learn about the incredible abilities of birds that have been discovered in recent years, talk about amazing discoveries related to the study of their migrations, and also understand the fantastic theories that people came up with trying to explain the disappearance of birds
by autumn.

Homework:

Think about which birds fly away from us before the rest
at the end of nesting? Which birds will be the first to return in the spring,
And who will arrive last?

Pavel Kvartalnov

giant sailors

Many of the world's marine mammals are migratory, but giant whales are undoubtedly the record holders.

Whales are in constant motion across the oceans. The whale annually overcomes about 25 thousand kilometers, and during their long life, gray and blue whales swim a distance in total equal to the distance from the Earth
to the moon and back.

At the lecture, we will talk about the mysteries of error-free navigation and other interesting facts from the life of sea giants.

Grigory Tsidulko

Graduated from the biological faculty of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov in two specialties, a zoologist and an ecologist, is engaged in the study of cetaceans. He worked as a marine mammal trainer at the Moscow Zoo. Since 1997, the main interest has been in the study and protection of gray whales in the Sea of Okhotsk. In 2002-2009 he worked at the International Fund for Animal Welfare IFAW, studying and protecting marine mammals in Russia. Member of the panel of independent experts of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN/IUCN).

Great Migration of Ungulates

Where and why do ungulates travel? Do all ungulates willingly leave their habitable places, or are there homebodies among them? Can baby deer, antelopes, zebras travel with their parents, or do they have to wait for the adults to return? Is it possible to meet any of the traveling ungulates in our country? How do scientists study the migration of ungulates?

Homework:

Remember what hoofed people could domesticate? Are any of them migratory species? How does a person manage to get along with them?

Maria Tiunova

Graduate of the biological and pedagogical faculties of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. Currently she works as a biology teacher at the "Intellectual" school. She was involved in the organization and conduct of the Children's Summer Natural Science Camp. For several years she worked in the scientific laboratories of the Moscow Polytechnic University. She took part in traveling expeditions for schoolchildren.

The amazing travels of insects

Not only birds make long-distance flights for hundreds and thousands of kilometers. So do many insects - butterflies, dragonflies, locusts, ladybugs and others. The most famous traveler of this kind is the American monarch butterfly. But we can also find such, for example, a burdock butterfly.

At the lecture, we will tell you which insects migrate and where, why they do it (and this is known far
not always) and how these phenomena are studied by scientists.

Homework:

Think about why some butterflies often fly north,
and others are returning to the south.

Fedor Martynovchenko

Member of the Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University Lomonosov. At the zoo, Fedor Alexandrovich participates in the work of the children's biological circle "Manulata" and lectures at the Children's Lecture Hall. He likes to conduct laboratory classes and outdoor workshops in nature.

Cycle No. 12 Fascinating holidays outside the city

Summer holidays are approaching, and many of you will spend this summer in the country. But there are so many interesting things in the country! Is it possible to find a dinosaur skeleton in the garden? What amazing insects live
in the allotment? How to make friends with animals that live near country houses? We will find answers to these questions in the lectures on April 21, May 12 and May 19, 2018.

Paleontology in the garden

Well, who does not dream of discovering a dinosaur skeleton while helping their grandmother in the garden? At the lecture, young fossil seekers will be able to learn where is the best place to search and what to look for. We will talk about what animals lived millions of years ago in the place of Moscow and the Moscow region, and, most importantly, find out how to find a dinosaur after all?

Homework:
Remember if you ever found something similar
on fossils and where did you search? Ask your parents (grandparents, sisters, brothers) if they managed to find any remains of ancient animals?

Photo from the site: pinterest.de

Popov Yaroslav

Graduate of the Department of Paleontology, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, researcher at the State Darwin Museum, curator of the paleontological collection. Fossil fish specialist.

Amazing insects in the country

We all know that tropical countries are full of incredible animals. However, many interesting creatures can be found in the Moscow region. At the lecture, we will talk about inconspicuous and little-known insects, such as lacewing larvae and nurse spiders, learn how to distinguish locusts from grasshoppers, find out why the bronzes chirp and what amazing insects can be found in the country.

Homework:
Remember what insects you can see on the flowers. What colors have the most different insects?

Photo from the site: bezva.info

Martynovchenko Fedor

Member of the Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov. Scientific interests: fauna and behavior of spiders. Conducts student practice. She works a lot with children, including in summer camps. At the Moscow Zoo, he leads the Manulata circle. Interested in biological delusions.

Animal neighbors

Many of you have met squirrels and hedgehogs in the immediate vicinity of country houses. Did you know that most suburban areas are home to several more species of small mammals?
And under the roof of the house or in a nearby grove, real bats live!

At the lecture, we will learn what animals can be found in the summer cottage, how to behave when meeting with neighboring animals, and what interesting observations can be made on them.

Homework:
Consider whether there are ways to attract different mammals to your suburban area? Which of these animals can benefit a person?

Photo from the site: pinterest.co.uk

Tumasyan Philip

Graduate of the Timiryazev Academy, candidate of biological sciences, now the leading zoologist of the experimental department of small mammals of the Moscow Zoo. He was engaged in the study of different types of shrews both in nature and in the Moscow Zoo.

Cycle No. 11 Communication in the animal world

How do animals communicate with each other? How do they pass on the information necessary for survival to their offspring, and how do they attract attention? What do animals do to warn others of danger, and how do they interact between species? Do animals have their own special language? At lectures 3, 17, 24, 31 March 2018 and 7 April 2018 we will find answers to these and many other questions and learn how to communicate through movements, smells and even colors.

See what I'll tell

If you live in an environment where neither smell nor vision works, then you can learn to see with the help of ... sound! To do this, you need “only” to correctly recognize the echo reflected from objects. How this is possible will be discussed in the lecture. And we will also learn what whales “talk” about and what tricks a person has learned from marine mammals.

Homework.
All human senses are developed. We can see light and colors, smell, feel touch and, of course, hear sounds. Think about why a person needs speech?

Photo from the site: pinterest.com

Grigory Tsidulko

Graduated from Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, studying at the Faculty of Biology, in two specialties a zoologist and an ecologist, is studying cetaceans. He worked as a marine mammal trainer at the Moscow Zoo. Since 1997, the main interest has been in the study and protection of gray whales in the Sea of Okhotsk. In 2002-2009 he worked at the International Fund for Animal Welfare IFAW, studying and protecting marine mammals in Russia. Member of the panel of independent experts of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN/IUCN).

Chemical communication

How do some animals manage to pick up scents from miles away on land and in water? What do smells tell animals and why do many animals have such a good sense of smell? In the lecture, we will talk about what smell really is and what role it plays in animal communication. We will learn how to find prey faster or warn relatives of danger, as well as who has the most acute sense of smell.

Homework.
Close your eyes and imagine that you could only smell it.

Photo from the site: pinterest.com

Alexandra Tertitskaya

Graduated from Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, studying at the biological and pedagogical faculties. By specialty, he is an invertebrate zoologist, he studies valuable species of crustaceans - crabs, crayfish and shrimps, their breeding and keeping in aquariums and in large fish farms. Participated in expeditions to the White and Barents Seas. He is fond of diving.

Movement language

It is believed that the dog wags its tail with joy, but the cat, on the contrary, with irritation. Is it true? Why does a frightened animal tuck its tail? At the lecture, we will talk about how birds and other animals communicate with the help of movements, find out if representatives of different animal species understand each other's gestures and postures, and also figure out why toads inflate, to whom agama lizards nod, why deer gore trees and what they want to say with their dances spiders and bees.

Homework.
Observe familiar pets
and try to make a “dog-human” or “cat-human” phrasebook.

Photo from the site: pinterest.com

Maria Tiunova

Graduated from Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, studying at the biological and pedagogical faculties. Currently she works as a biology teacher at the "Intellectual" school. She was involved in the organization and conduct of the Children's Summer Natural Science Camp. For several years she worked in the scientific laboratories of the Moscow Polytechnic University. She took part in traveling expeditions for schoolchildren.

The cuckoo praises the rooster: sounds in the life of birds and other animals

In summer, we are used to waking up to the singing of numerous birds, and in winter, we are invigorated by the restless chirping of sparrows. Our world is filled with sounds made by a variety of animals. In the lecture, we will talk about what acoustic communication is, and learn how animals communicate using sounds and why they make them. We will figure out how the apparatus with which birds sing works, how they manage to communicate with each other without attracting the attention of predators, and how some animals can deceive others with the help of sounds and why this is necessary.

Homework.
Think about why birds imitate the voices of other animals? What birds have you met that have the ability to imitate?

Photo from the site: hbw.com

Pavel Kvartalnov

Full color communication

Is it possible to communicate in complete silence and without movement? Why might this be necessary? How to convey your thought immediately to all living beings?
At the lecture, we will figure out how you can communicate using color and why and how to understand what exactly they want to tell you.

Homework.
How many colors of the rainbow do animals see?

Photo from the site: TopKin.ru

Alexander Gatilov

Leading member of the Experimental Department of Small Mammals, zoologist and ornithologist. Graduate of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov. He took part in expeditions to the Taimyr Peninsula and the Nenets Reserve, where he studied the life of birds and animals of the tundra. Interested in terrariums.

Cycle No. 10 Fantastic reality of the prehistoric world

The prehistoric world is full of mysteries and mysteries.

Millions of years ago, our planet was inhabited by extraordinary creatures, many of which were very different from modern animals.

Huge free-swimming ammonite cephalopods, giant stegocephalians living in coal marshes, ancient toothy birds and real dinosaurs are just some of those we will talk about.

We will learn about what ancient animals looked like and how amazing they were, at lectures on January 20, 27, February 3, 10, 17, 2018.

extinct invertebrates

In addition to the extinct dinosaurs known to most of us, which were vertebrates, the ancient fauna was made up of a large number of invertebrates.

The remains of the most famous of them - ammonites and belemnites can be easily found in the Moscow region and even on the lawns in Moscow. Traces of various extinct invertebrates can also be seen in the Moscow Metro.

What were these animals?
How extinct invertebrates work and which of their relatives inhabit modern seas and oceans - we'll talk about all this in a lecture.

Homework:
Where do you think extinct invertebrates appeared on the walls of the Moscow metro?

Photo from the site: divnogor.ru

Tertitskaya Alexandra

Leap to the side

Most species of modern amphibians are very inconspicuous creatures.
Even the most exotic species of these animals are usually not so large - the largest of the tailless detachment barely overcome the three-kilogram mark.
Among the detachment of tailed amphibians there are larger animals - for example, giant salamanders can occasionally reach 70 kg.
However, this is nothing compared to the size of their ancient giant ancestors. Our story will go about the giants of the past, their origin and modern types.

Homework:
Think about it, can a frog be the size of a bull?
What will she need for this?

Photo from the site: paleontologyworld.com

Gatilov Alexander

Ancient mammals: what were they?

In the modern world, mammals play a leading role in the biosphere. Have mammals always looked like modern species? Where did modern whales and dolphins come from? Who was the most ferocious predator among mammals? What giants were the ancestors of modern horses?

We will talk about the most amazing mammals that lived on our planet in the past in our lecture.

Homework.
Think about what the ancestor of all modern mammals might have looked like?

Photo from the site: ok.ru

Tumasyan Philip

Graduate of the Timiryazev Academy, candidate of biological sciences, now the leading zoologist of the Experimental Department of Small Mammals. He was engaged in the study of different types of shrews both in nature and in the Moscow Zoo.

Flight through time

At the lecture, we will talk about birds that lived in the time of brontosaurs.
and tyrannosaurs, as well as about those distant times when the Earth was inhabited by strange feathered creatures - the distant ancestors of birds, never
did not rise to the sky.
Traveling to times less distant, we will see the tropical birds of the forests of Europe, and unusual birds that recently inhabited the oceanic islands.

Homework:
Remember which of the modern animals is most related to birds?
What do these animals have in common with birds?

Photo from the site: nauka21vek.ru

Kvartalnov Pavel

Incredible adventures of dinosaurs in Russia

Millions of years ago, incredible animals roamed the Earth - dinosaurs. Many people think that they also inhabited the territory of modern Russia.
However, it turned out that most of our country in the era of dinosaurs was the sea! For more than 100 years, scientists have been looking for an answer to the question: is it really
on the territory of Russia there was not even a small island of land with reptiles?

Where in Russia you can find dinosaurs - you can find out the answer to this and many other questions in our lecture.

Homework:
During the Jurassic period, the sea splashed on the site of Moscow.
What animals do you think lived there?
In which countries are many dinosaur skeletons found?
What remains of ancient animals, except for the skeleton?

Photo from the site: animalreader.ru

Popov Yaroslav

Graduate of the Department of Paleontology, Moscow State University. Lomonosov, researcher at the State Darwin Museum, curator of the paleontological collection. Fossil fish specialist.

New Year's lectures

Everything you didn't know about hamsters and didn't think to ask.

While winter envelops Moscow, we will be transported to arid landscapes and get to know hamsters better. What do they have in common and how do they differ? How many species of these rodents are there? Where and how do they live in nature? What do hamsters do in winter? How do they celebrate the New Year? We will learn about this and other interesting facts from the life of these small animals at the lecture.

Rurikov Georgy

A graduate of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, currently an employee of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a participant in numerous expeditions to Mongolia, Tuva, Buryatia and the south of the European part of Russia.

"Beasts of all ancestors - animal lizards"

Dear friends, on the eve of the New Year, the Moscow Zoo will host an interesting lecture about creatures separated from us for centuries, known as "animal lizards".

According to the Chinese calendar, the upcoming New Year 2018 will be the Year of the Dog. It is about the ancestors of dogs, cats and other mammals - animal lizards - that the lecture will be told.

You will get acquainted with terrible estemmenosuchians, ferocious foreigners, nimble cynodonts and other ancient ancestors of animals familiar to us.
You will learn where and why the remains of animal-like lizards are most often found. And besides, you will learn the answer to an unusual question: why are these ancient animals closer to us than dinosaurs?

Photo from the site: pinterest.com

Yaroslav Popov

Graduate of the Department of Paleontology, Moscow State University. Lomonosov, researcher at the State Darwin Museum, curator of the paleontological collection. Fossil fish specialist.

Cycle No. 9 Our Neighbors

A person changes the environment for himself, trying to create favorable conditions for his life. Cities are growing in breadth, depth, and height, transport networks are developing, while the noise level is increasing, and landscapes are changing. Many animals have to gradually migrate to the suburbs and even more remote areas. But for some, the city becomes a new habitat, a special ecosystem. We will talk about which animals have become our neighbors and how they master the urban environment at lectures on October 28, November 11, 18, 25 and December 2.

Zoo as habitat

We all know that a person affects the world around us. Can we create a completely new artificial habitat? Is it possible to see an elephant in Moscow? How to make sure that the animals in the zoo do not get bored, and the pets live well? We will talk about all this and why we are responsible for those we have tamed in the lecture.

Homework: What animal would you like to have at home? Think about what he would need for a normal life?

Alexander Gatilov

Leading member of the Experimental Department of Small Mammals, zoologist and ornithologist. Graduate of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov. He took part in expeditions to the Taimyr Peninsula and the Nenets Reserve, where he studied the difficult life of birds and animals of the tundra. Interested in terrariums.

Inhabitants of city caves and dungeons

Where there is a house there is a basement, where there is a village there is a well, where there is a city there is a labyrinth of underground passages of the city sewerage. All these structures have been used by animals for a long time. Someone as a temporary shelter, someone as a home, and for some it is a huge universe with its own unique laws. Over the years, these animals have become our neighbors and constant companions. Are they our enemies or our friends? What do we know about them? What other secrets hide under our feet?

Homework: Try to look at the city through the eyes of a fox. Where would you like to make your home? How many of these places can you find in your area, in the places you usually go to?

Olga Titova

Researcher at the Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of the project for the study of cetaceans in the Russian Far East.

Who lives in the pond

Everyone knows that the ocean hides many secrets and amazing creatures. But the life of a pond and the most ordinary puddle is no less amazing. What happens to the pond and its inhabitants if a city grows around? Will they be able to get into the pond just dug in this city? We will look into the city reservoirs to meet extremely charming monsters and simply unexpected inhabitants.

Homework: think about how a small pond differs from a large aquarium?

The Center for Additional Education "Children's Lecture Hall" is not a circle or sections. This is a new format for conducting classes for children.

The "Children's Lecture Hall" presents science in a bright and interesting way and strives to ensure that in the classroom the children themselves argue, discuss the material, express hypotheses, and argue. Classes in"Children's lecture"is not only fun entertainment and a pleasant pastime. Here they teach children to think, express and justify their opinions, conduct a dialogue, we strive to develop in them a love and interest in learning. And this, of course, will be useful to every young person in the future.

Classes in "Children's lecture"- for your child if:

He is inquisitive, erudite: he reads encyclopedias, watches popular science films, and knows more than you about many things.
He is active and mobile: he cannot sit in one place for a long time.
School classes are boring for him: in the classroom you need to sit quietly and listen to the teacher, you can’t talk, discuss, laugh.

What does the course consist of in "Children's lecture"?

Classes in "Children's lecture"- This:

1. Informal atmosphere.

No classrooms with desks, no blackboards, no strict teachers, whom we did not like so much at school! The teachers at the Children's Lecture Hall are young, charming and charismatic students and graduate students. A friendly atmosphere reigns in a small hall: the children sit around the teacher on pillows or chairs, if they wish, they are treated to tea and cookies.

2. A large amount of training material.

At each lesson there are colorful presentations, scientific films, maps, interesting things. For example, in an astronomy class, they show a telescope, planetary globes, pieces of a meteorite, star maps, and a planetarium.

3. Experiments and experiments.

Children will be able to look through a telescope, learn how to provide first aid, make a model aircraft and assemble a parachute on their own.

The names of the new Moscow courses for children sound like the disciplines of the Hogwarts magical school. The first advantage of courses over classical art and music schools is that they can be changed every month, or even every week. Secondly, many programs suggest that on weekends you will build satellites, draw models and even swim with dolphins as a family.

Robotics and industrial design at the Roboschool at VDNKh

In the second pavilion, VDNKh launched four educational programs for children aged six and over. In basic robotics courses, each child creates a robot from scratch: constructs its model and programs the "heart" - a system of simple codes. The second program - called STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) is a complex of engineering lessons with constant experiments. Industrial design class - for children with a passion for art. In the first part of the class, students will be told the history of modern design, in the second part they will be helped to create their own art project. The fourth educational program "Electrical Engineering" is designed for those who are interested in unscrewing the screws in alarm clocks and telephones. The child will be shown how technology actually works and will be taught how to design new devices.

Classes are held from 16:30 on weekdays and from 11:00 to 20:30 on weekends. The cost of one lesson is 1,500 rubles. The cost of the month (4 lessons) - 5 200 rubles. Course (12 lessons) - 13,800 rubles. The schedule of the "Roboschool" for the 2017-2018 academic year is on the official website.

Pottery, turning courses and a stained glass workshop in the Park of Crafts at VDNKh

Children's courses at the Park of Crafts are accepted from the age of four. The program can be composed of ten subjects. Among them - work with a potter's wheel and a lathe, modeling clay products, creating porcelain, burning dishes, home decor with their own hands. How are these courses different from needlework circles? In the Park of Crafts, teachers do not give students uniform samples and help the child bring his own idea to the finished product. On weekends, parents join the children. The creators of the Park of Crafts educational program note that the individual approach of creative courses is also convenient for children with special needs.

You can sign up for any lesson of the course separately, as for a master class. The cost of a lesson in a children's group is 800 rubles. The cost of a separate master class is from 500 to 2,000 rubles. The schedule of courses is on the website of the Park of Crafts.

Carpentry courses at the Moscow Wooden School

Vyacheslav Shvaikov (carpenter, designer) and Ekaterina Menshikova (architect) from the Mechanical Wooden Gears carpentry workshop have compiled three serious courses for children aged 5 to 12. Classes are held at the Mother's Garden club in the Hermitage garden. Course 1.0 - game lectures and experiments related to the study of the structure of a tree, cones and needles, the basics of design, the basic forms of things. In course 2.0, children create their first products, and in the third stage they learn the intricacies of finishing. It is not necessary to follow just such a sequence: for example, a five-year-old child can simultaneously go to the second and third programs.

The founders themselves conduct the courses: Vyacheslav and Ekaterina communicate with students on an equal footing and take their fantasies seriously. Children set tasks for themselves: if a girl decides to make a tractor, and a boy decides to make a princess's house, teachers will help the child draw up an action plan.

On Saturdays, family workshops are held at the school: children teach moms and dads how to make toys and dishes from wood.

The cost of one lesson is 1,500 rubles. Schedule - on the website.

Surgery, paleontology and detective courses of the Smart Moscow project

"Smart Moscow" is a two-hour course for children from 7 to 14 years old at the ZIL center. Each course is designed in the format of a practical game. At Surgery, children perform operations on a toy parrot; at Paleontology, they find dinosaur remains; at the Science Detective program, they investigate a crime. Courses are held for two age groups: from 7 to 9 years old and from 10 to 14. Up to 60 children participate in each lesson, students are divided into four teams of 15 people and distributed in closed laboratories. There are no team captains here - each child must conduct an experiment with his own hands so that his group wins. Teachers and developers of "Smart Moscow" are graduates of the Russian National Research Medical University. N. I. Pirogov and Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov.

“The project began with lectures for adults, but gradually we realized that the popularization of science for children is a more promising and interesting niche for us,” says geographer Mikhail Kneller, founder of Smart Moscow.

Each child ticket includes a parent program. Moms and dads are invited to a scientific lecture with a quiz (they promise prizes).

The cost of one ticket (one child + one or two adults) is 1,750 rubles. For groups of 12 people - 1,600 rubles. The class schedule is on the official website.

Club of Young Astronomers at the Moscow Planetarium

To get to the children's classes of the Moscow Planetarium, you need to fill out a questionnaire, go through an interview and hope for an answer - the group recruits children who are already passionate about the stars and know that Saturn has seven rings. The age restrictions of the circle are narrow: they accept children - students of 6-7 grades. Interviews began on August 20 and will run until October 1. The first lecture of the course is scheduled for October 3rd. The course is non-commercial, you can not get to classes outside the interview for an additional fee.

The program of the first course of the club includes working with different types of telescopes and observing variable stars from the roof of the center, studying the history of the origin of the solar system, the basic history of astronomy and the laws of motion of celestial bodies.

Detailed information about the club can be found.

In the children's center of the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance for Schoolchildren, there is a theater studio of the acting department professor at the Institute of Culture Inna Waxenburg and the After school program (as an extended day group at school, only with lunch in the museum cafe). From September 19, the museum launches the second course for directors from 8 to 12 years old "Kinoproekt 8".

The program includes eight classes on Tuesdays (from 16:00 to 18:00), each child will master one of the stages of film production. The first lesson is trial and free, its theme is script dramaturgy. In the next classes, students will be explained why modern styles and genres are needed, taught how to handle a professional camera and work with actors.

After the theoretical part of the course, each child will write a scenario of the author's sketch, in which he will play himself. Teachers promise not to influence the student's idea - only to give advice on its implementation.

The museum posted the works of first-year students on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/225733258

Subscription for a month (four classes) - 4,000 rubles. Registration for the project is limited. You can register on the website.

Courses of storytelling and literary creativity at the V. I. Dal State Museum of the History of Russian Literature

The Weekend Tale Studio at the Dahl Museum has two educational areas for schoolchildren - Literary Creativity and Storytelling. The creator of the literary program, writer and screenwriter Valentina Degteva came up with courses for children from 10 to 13 years old who do not like to read. In the classes at the Weekend Tale studio, small groups (five to seven people) make films (there are master classes on silent films), draw cartoons with new twists on famous plots and prove in debates who is still right, Pechorin or Grushnitsky.

If parents come to the courses with their children, they participate in the process: they play costume designers and stage decorators. If you are not afraid to embarrass the child, Valentina will give you salty dough and offer you to mold a figure.

Storytelling courses are accepted from 5 to 13 years old. Here, children are taught to put together logical stories from chaotic fragments, explain how to present an idea so that it is understood, and give examples from classical and modern literature.

The cost of one lesson is 500 rubles. The cost of a subscription for six months is 3,400 rubles. The class schedule is on the official website.

Virtual reality technologies, 3D modeling and industrial design at Lab on Myasnitskaya

On August 30, Laba co-working was opened on Myasnitskaya Street with courses for children from seven years old. The creators of the project are the founder of the Museum of Soviet Slot Machines Maxim Pinigin and the architect Nikolai Mikheev. The idea of Maxim and Nikolai is to show schoolchildren that valuable new ideas are born at the intersection of several sciences. “Here you can implement any idea, from a satellite to a stool, in the material world,” says Mikheev.

On September 1, Lab launched ten areas of courses for schoolchildren: 3D modeling and 3D printing, exciting programming, industrial design, VR / AR (virtual and augmented reality technologies), animation, creating architectural projects from scratch, modeling ships, machines and aircraft.

The program schedule is specially designed so that the student can try all areas. The idea of a child's graduation project can combine three disciplines at once.

Adults can also attend. The cost of courses does not depend on age.

Lab has all the necessary equipment for architects, designers, furniture makers and jewelers (for example, milling and laser machines, a cutting plotter and a 3D printer). While the child is building the spaceship, you can complete your work.

The cost of six lessons is 11,000 rubles. The class schedule is on the official website.

Lecture hall for "young Cousteau", school for a young coach and swims with dolphins in the "Moskvarium"

If a child is watching a film about Willy the killer whale for the third time, enroll him in the Moskvarium young coach's school at VDNKh. Children and adolescents from 8 to 17 years old are united in groups of 5-7 people. A professor of oceanology gives them tours of the entire aquarium, and a leading bottlenose dolphin trainer talks about the intricacies of communicating with animals. At this time, children watch the training of killer whales and walruses. The second part of the course is practical. Pupils play with dolphins, standing on the platform, rehearse commands and overcome fear. Then everyone is given 10 minutes to swim with a dolphin in a large pool.

All participants who decide to swim with animals receive a diploma of a young coach.

In their free time, parents can join their child - the Moskvarium program includes family swims with dolphins (session for four - 25,000 rubles).

The cost of one day of classes in the children's group (4 hours with lunch) - 10,000 rubles. Details about the project can be found.

Programming, Minecraft Code Logic and Mobile Application Creation at Moscow Coding School

In order for the student to spend time at the computer with benefit, it is enough to choose one of the three Moscow Coding School courses - "Programming for children: applications" (from 11 to 14 years old), "Gadgets with Alexander Bratchikov" (from 10 to 14 years old) or "Programming for children: Minecraft "(from 10 to 13 years old). The first educational program is for those who have never programmed. After six lessons, the child can download their own application on the iPhone from the AppStore. Schoolchildren are visually told about how to create a competent design and translate the idea into a prototype, and then a working sample of the application. The "pass" to the course is a MacBook with the Xcode environment loaded.

The gadgets section is led by well-known web developer, Strelka graduate Alexander Bratchikov. In the classroom, Alexander explains to the children in an understandable language why mobile phones and computers work the way they do.

For the third course, you will have to download the Minecraft game to the children's computer - for educational purposes. Students will influence the course of actions and emotions of the characters using the Phyton programming code.

The cost of one course is 14,999 rubles. Detailed schedule and registration - on the official website.

Children's Lecture Hall and Scientific Laboratories of the Polytechnic Museum

from 5 years
17, 18, 24, 31 October, 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 15 November 2015
Polytechnic Museum in the ZIL Cultural Center (metro Avtozavodskaya)

Biolecture of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University

from 5 years
October 18, October 25, 2015
Zoological Museum of Moscow State University (metro station Okhotny Ryad)

Project “Scientists for Children”

from 10 years
from October 3 to December 12, 2015, on Saturdays
Museum of entertaining sciences "Experimentanium" (Lm. Sokol)

In the current season of the popular project of the children's scientific museum "Experimentanium" - already the fifth in a row - lectures by famous scientists have become free for everyone. Physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and other serious sciences are presented here in an exciting way, among the teachers there are candidates and doctors of sciences, researchers from Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences. At the lectures, you can learn how the human brain works, how the properties of chemical compounds change under pressure, read the reports of the robot that rides the comet for the first time, and understand the structure of the DNA molecule.

Lecture hall "Star Lessons" in the Moscow Planetarium

from 8 years old
from October 2015 to April 2016, except Monday and Thursday
conference hall of the Moscow Planetarium (metro Barrikadnaya)

Lectures of the Darwin Museum in the bioexperimentanium "Living Systems"

from 8 years old
October 24, November 7, November 21, December 5, 2015
Bioexperimentanium "Living Systems" (m. Savelovskaya)

Lecture hall in the Tretyakov Gallery

from 6 years old
by subscription, next lectures: October 17, 18, 25, November 7, 8, 21, December 5, 19, 2015
Lecture Hall of the Tretyakov Gallery (metro Tretyakovskaya)

As you might guess, the lectures at the Tretyakov Gallery are devoted to art. There are several thematic subscriptions addressed to parents with children and high school students. Lecture topics are varied: you can plunge into the world of book illustrations, learn the plots of your favorite fairy tales in the paintings of famous artists, or delve into theory and get acquainted with art forms. Lecturers reinforce their stories with a demonstration of artistic materials.

Lecture hall "Direct speech"

from 6 years old
23, 24, 25 October, 8, 21, 22 November 2015
Lecture hall "Direct speech" (m. Mayakovskaya)

The brightest Moscow popularizers of science have dropped anchor in the Direct Speech lecture hall. Biologist Ilya Kolmanovsky reveals to children all the secrets of the digestive system and tells about diving, historian Tamara Edelman will help to fall in love with history, perceiving it as an amazing journey through time, and astrophysicist Sergei Popov will share the secrets of the Universe known to him, hidden behind the beauty of the night sky.

Open lecture hall of the Moscow Zoo

from 16 years old
every second Thursday of the month
Moscow Zoo (m. Street 1905 Goda)

At the main entrance to the Zoo, there is an Open Lecture Hall where you can talk with scientists, ecologists and science popularizers. The topics of the lectures are very diverse, but as a rule, they concern the animal world. You can talk about the work of zoos in the field of nature conservation, listen to the stories of zoologists about past expeditions, learn interesting details about the life of manuls or cheetahs, or find out why some zoo residents have to be trained. Now there are lectures for adults and youth from 16 years old, but a separate Children's lecture hall will soon appear.

Children's lecture hall MMOMA

from 5 years
Tuesdays and Saturdays (September 29-December 13, October 10-December 26, October 6-December 15, 2015)
Children's Center of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (metro Trubnaya)

The lecture hall of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art offers several courses at once, designed for children from 5 years old. This fall, three major courses started in the lecture hall. The smallest will be told about the art of Ancient Rome - from the Etruscans to the fall of the Empire. Two more courses are addressed to schoolchildren from 7 years old. The cycle "The Art of the Middle Ages" will take listeners to the era of King Arthur, Gothic, courtly etiquette of knights and beautiful ladies. The course “Contemporary Art. Traveling the world with avant-garde artists” will tell children about the works of Matisse, Gaudi, Magritte, Duchamp, Warhol, Rodchenko and Mukhina. Each lecture is accompanied by a practical session.

Family Courses at the Garage Center for Contemporary Art

from 7 years
from October 4 to December 6, 2015, on Sundays
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (metro Park Kultury)

At the Garage, contemporary art can be enjoyed by the whole family. And not only to the contemporary - the new family course "Great Ten: From Repin to Malevich" in ten lessons will introduce students to the most significant artists who worked in Russia during the formation of the avant-garde. The teacher of the course is art critic Tatyana Bortnik.
In addition, the museum hosts courses – “Architecture. The Art of Seeing” (taught by Anastasia Golovina, architect, restorer, teacher, artist, and Ekaterina Yuzbasheva, architect) and “In the Footsteps of Contemporary Art” (taught by art historian Tatiana Bortni and Natalya Sidorova, senior researcher at the State Tretyakov Gallery’s Department of Contemporary Art). Stories about art are accompanied by creative activities so that the information is better absorbed.