-- HUMMINGBIRD PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES --

There are literally hundreds of projects and activities that can be conducted using Ruby-throated Hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris) as the focus. Some are simple observational studies that can be mastered by children as young as Kindergarten age, while others require sophisticated reasoning and/or expensive laboratory apparatus. Through Operation RubyThroat, we anticipate that teachers, individual students, parents, and other interested folks will find a project to their liking, implement it, and report back to this website what they have learned about the Ruby-throated Hummingbird (RTHU).

We have divided Operation RubyThroat Projects & Activities into five major groups: Basic Activities, Basic Observations, Research Projects, Cross-disciplinary Activities, and Inter-Grade/ Inter-School Activities.

• Basic Activities and Basic Observations are typically short-term endeavors that may take only one day or class period; some can be on-going and include components that occur at regular intervals during the academic year.
• Suggested Research Projects are primarily for high school and advanced junior high students, college students, and adults; these projects, which could involve individuals or small groups, are typically long-term and may become science fair projects and even lead to publication of original data.
• Cross-disciplinary Activities represent an attempt to get teachers and students from the arts and humanities to collaborate in creative new ways of looking at science.
• Inter-Grade or Inter-School Activities are cooperative ventures between grade levels in a given school or between two nearby schools with different grade levels.

As teachers and students become participants in Operation RubyThroat during Years One and Two, the program's projects and activities will become more closely aligned with school curricula around the United States. For this to occur, it is essential that teachers contact the principal investigator (Bill Hilton Jr.) with information about how Operation RubyThroat can meet and has met curriculum needs. It is hoped that projects and activities offered through Operation RubyThroat will be used as integral parts of the curriculum rather than as adjunct or enrichment endeavors.

NOTE: Teachers and their student groups, individual students, and others who are registered participants with Operation RubyThroat get priority attention to all requests for information and assistance. To learn about the other benefits of registering, see How to Participate.

• BASIC HUMMINGBIRD ACTIVITIES
  
• PUZZLES, QUIZZES & COLORING PAGES
  
• BASIC HUMMINGBIRD OBSERVATIONS
  
• HUMMINGBIRD RESEARCH PROJECTS
  -- Biology & Plant-Animal Interactions
  -- Meteorology
  -- Physics & Applied Engineering
  -- Chemistry & Environmental Science
  -- Computers, Mathematics & Measurement
  
• CROSS-DISCIPLINARY HUMMINGBIRD ACTIVITIES
  -- Operation RubyThroat Activities and Howard Gardner's Theories of "Multiple Intelligences"
  -- Art
  -- Drama
  -- Geography
  -- Music
  -- Mathematics
  -- Writing
  
• INTER-GRADE or INTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
  -- Biology Classes
  -- Horticulture Classes
  

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