Holiday Workshops in the Forest

During summer vacation, two exciting workshops at the forum natura Nature Discovery Center invite children and teens to explore the forest from entirely new perspectives.

Kicking things off on July 28 is the free workshop “Small Forest Creatures, Big Discoveries.” Students in grades 5 through 9 will build their own small microscopes, collect natural specimens, and explore the hidden world of leaf structures, tree bark, and water droplets. The organisms and structures they discover will then be drawn and identified as a group. The event is organized in cooperation with the Lichtwerkstatt Jena – Open Photonics Makerspace at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.

On July 30 and 31, the two-day summer workshop “The Forest as a Workplace – Who Worked in the Jena Forest?” will take place for students in grades 6 through 8. Together, participants will embark on a journey through time into the history of the Jena Forest. Using digital media and an excursion, they will explore how charcoal burners, lumberjacks, and stonemasons worked in the past and what traces these professions have left on the landscape to this day. The program is a collaborative project between the Jena City Forestry Office and the Chair of Digital Humanities at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Both workshops will take place at the forum natura Nature Discovery Center. The meeting point for both is the NETTO parking lot at Friedrich-Körner-Straße 2. Further information and registration details are available at www.natura-jenensis.de/ferien.