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In Search of Giant Squid



Programming Ideas

  • Yale University's Peabody Museum offered a squid puppet show to young visitors and a make-your-own-puppet exercise. Students colored a life-size giant squid chalk drawing outside the museum. The Peabody hosted an academic lecture which incorporated a squid dissection.
  • The Florida Museum of Natural History held a number of fun and engaging classes for children, including the "Wigglers & Walkers: Just Squidding" program for preschoolers; the "Let's Explore Aquatic Creatures: Giants of the Sea" and "Billy the Squid and Other Cephalopods" programs for K-5 graders; and the "I ink. Therefore I am: Inking, Stinking, and Other Tactics Animals Use to Avoid Predators" program for middle school students. They also held science movie nights featuring 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Giant Squid Bingo and other activity sheets made the exhibition an interactive one for all visitors.

Visitor Comments

  • "I had such a good time that I will remember this all my life."
    —Teddy Donnell, Atlanta student after visiting the exhibition and meeting squid expert Dr. Clyde Roper. According to Teddy's parents, Teddy used the word "R-A-D-U-L-A" in a scrabble game on the way home to Atlanta!

Museum Responses

  • None listed at this time. Please check back again.

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