Children's university about the fascination of spiders

Pupils from third to sixth grade are invited to the event on Thursday, 12 December at 3 pm and 5 pm in the Central Lecture Hall Building, Audimax 2, on the university'smain campus in Cottbus. Registration is not required.
Further information:
https://www.b-tu.de/unileben/btu-region-erleben/kinder-jugendprojekte/kinderuni-cottbus

On  Saturday, 14 December, this 45-minute children's university lecture begins at 10:30 a.m. in the large lecture theatre of the Konrad Zuse Media Centre on Campus Senftenberg .
Registration is requested at the e-mail address kinderuni(at)b-tu.de.
Further information:
https://www.b-tu.de/unileben/btu-region-erleben/kinder-jugendprojekte/kinderuni-senftenberg

Prof. Dr Klaus Birkhofer, head of the Chair of Ecology at BTU, will be theofficer in charge.

Almost everyone is afraid of spiders or is disgusted by them. Together with Professor Birkhofer, the children will find out why they don't have to be afraid of spiders and how important these animals are for us. For example, they will learn that small jumping spiders can jump 40 times their size, that you can stop an aeroplane taking off with a thread of spider silk and that not everything we know about Spider-Man is nonsense. There are many more fascinating things to tell about spiders, and that's exactly why this lecture is being organised.

Children's university lectures are designed to awaken an interest in solving scientific problems at an early age and give children the opportunity to experience the flair of a university.
The BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg thus gives schoolchildren from the third to sixth grades the opportunity to get a taste of university life and teaches solutions to everyday scientific phenomena in a child-friendly, exciting way. This encourages formative experiences that awaken the youngest children's interest in science and reduce their inhibitions about university.

Outlook:
The next children's university lectures will take place on Wednesday, 8 January 2025, at 5 p.m. at the Campus Senftenberg and Thursday, 9 January, at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the BTU's main campus in Cottbus.
Topic: "Can residential buildings be built and dismantled several times? Or to put it another way: Can residential buildings be dismantled into their individual parts and used to build something new again?
Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Angelika Mettke