Giant Squid Learning Representation (#6)

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Giant Squid:

In 2012 a group of scientists from Japan's National Science Museum along with colleagues from Japanese public broadcaster NHK and the Discovery Channel filmed a giant squid in its natural habitat for the first time.

How big is the Giant Squid?

Like other squids and octopuses, it has two eyes, a beak, eight arms, two feeding tentacles, and a funnel however, all of it is much larger!

The two feeding tentacles are much longer than the other eight tentacles, almost twice the length of the squids body. The feeding tentacles are about 10 meters long and covered with sharp-toothed suckers. The squid uses these to shoot out and snatch their prey.

A bird-like, sharp beak sits at the center of the eight tentacle arms. Here the prey is is sliced into bite-sized pieces, then ground and digested.

The Giant Squid's eyeball is the largest in the animal kingdom. Measuring at about one foot, 30 centimeters in diameter.

The main part of the body is called the mantle,this contains all the Squid's basic organs. On the underside is the funnel—a multipurpose tool. The squid uses this to exhale, expel waste, lay eggs, squirt ink, and move through the water by jet-propulsion.



Giant Squid live about five years and, in that time, reproduce only once!!

Giant Squid 3D Model:

ALL recycled materials provided by the UMF Resource Depot








ECH 384 Class of Squids (2019)

Kristen Hill's and my squid got hung up next to each other!

Children's Activities related to the Giant Squid:

  • Construct their own Squid model using recycled materials from around the room such as a TP roll, yarn, beads, pieces of paper, old pieces of fabric, etc.

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