Inside: Exhibition Introduction & Curriculum Connections

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Educator Guide

INSIDE: Exhibition Introduction & Curriculum Connections 

Exhibit Area Overviews & Guiding Questions

This exhibition was created by The Field Museum, Chicago.

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Walking Map

ENTRANCE

EXIT

Tusks and Trunks

Growing up 

in the Herd

Conserving a Legacy

Pushed to the Limits

A Prehistoric Drama

Stomping Grounds

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Exhibition Introduction

Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age 

October 7, 2012 – January 13, 2013

Millions of years ago, colossal mammals 

roamed Europe, Asia, and North America. 

From the gigantic mammoth to the massive 

mastodon, these creatures have captured the 

world’s fascination. Meet a replica of “Lyuba,” 

the best-preserved baby mammoth in the 

world, and discover all that we’ve learned 

from her. Journey back to the Ice Age through 

monumental video installations, roam among 

saber-toothed cats and giant bears, and wonder 

over some of the oldest human artifacts in 

existence. Hands-on exciting interactive 

displays reveal the difference between a 

mammoth and a mastodon, offer what may 

have caused their extinction, and show how 

today’s scientists excavate, analyze, and learn more about these 

amazing creatures. Explore the lives of these mysterious titans of the Ice Age, only at the Museum of Science. 

Main Themes

The following themes are threaded throughout the Mammoths and Mastodons exhibition and may be useful in 

framing how the exhibition connects with your curriculum:

• Mammoths evolved into several different species and inhabited diverse environments on four continents.

• Mammoths and mastodons came to have an important role in early human lives.

• The natural history of mammoths and mastodons is inferred through their remains found throughout the

world and by studying their relatives, modern elephants.

Curriculum Connections 

Adapted from the Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Framework October 2006