Bee's Squid

This week Bee is teaching us about squids.  She has a lot of fun things planned for us.  I will be helping her with some of these lessons.  We will start off by talking about the importance of working as a team and taking different scientific approaches for a common goal.

Squid Dissection  - We used this as a guide to our dissection

After we identified the organs, the pen and the beak as well as the sex of our squid, we cleaned them and fried them up.

 We fried them up in butter, garlic, and onion.  I thought they were rather tasty but the kids thought they were a little fishy.  Imagine that.

Bee liked them the most.  She chowed down and finished off several of them

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/videos/the-giant-squid-discoverers.htm

"The giant squid discoverers" at discovery.com explains a wonderful approach to solving scientific problems and working on research as a team.


Giant squid


Squid experiment - almost unschoolers








origami squid



Tree of Life


   


CBS News - Hombolt Squid





winky the homboldt squid

Coffee filter squid

We took two coffee filters and put a little stuffing between two and stapled them together

Then we made tentacles and arms by cutting strips out of another filter and stapled them on the bottom and painted them with watercolor.

In the end we made a squid wall to display our little critters

We also created salt dough squid and baked them