Excursion to the Bio Museum of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

The Sustainable Development Goals adopted in 2015 by the UN General Assembly as a "plan for achieving a better and more sustainable future for all" have become a reference point in the educational work of our university's teachers. Teachers follow certain directions of the SDGs in order to cultivate the qualities of a harmonious personality in their students. Therefore, foreign students of the Department of Language and General Education of Foreigners, as part of SDG 13 – Combating Climate Change, SDG 14 – Preserving Marine Ecosystems, and SDG 15 – Preserving Terrestrial Ecosystems, visited the Bio-Museum of Kazakhstan Nature with their advisors. Al-Farabi Kazakh National University has several interesting and educational museums, one of which is the Bio-Museum at the Faculty of Biology. 

         This museum has a huge arsenal of rare exhibits, representing the flora and fauna of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the biodiversity of biotopes, ecosystems and natural zones of our country. The sections of the evolution of the organic world, nature conservation, systematics of the animal and plant world are presented in spectacular dioramas, stands and maps, here you can see stuffed different exotic species of vertebrates. At the entrance to the museum, we are greeted by a unique exhibition of the Turan or Caspian tiger. In the bio-museum, you can see a model of the "Ili" ostrich of the Charyn Canyon, and the endemic Selvinia of Kazakhstan, a rodent that is found only in the Kazakhstani deserts and is listed in the Red Book of Kazakhstan. This particular animal is depicted on the emblem of the bio-museum. The museum has many interesting dioramas, including dioramas of various landscapes, such as the tugai forest, deserts, and mountainous regions. They create an absolutely realistic impression of nature. The museum also features a stuffed Przewalski's horse, which is the only surviving wild horse species. This endangered species is listed in the Red Book of Kazakhstan.

        Our Russian-speaking students listened attentively and with great interest to the guide, a researcher at the museum. They took notes of new words and terms, translated them into their native language, and asked questions to the guide. As a result, their vocabulary has expanded with new words that they will use in their conversations about what they saw in the museum and the informative and interesting information they learned.

Teachers of the Department of Language and General Education for Foreigners

at the Faculty of Pre-University Education

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

R.S. Turebekova and L.K. Mamytbekova