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• What factors do you think might have influenced the speed of Booker Sweeny's trip?
  
  
• What kinds of information could help support your ideas?
  
  
• List what this story reveals about how a scientist works (for instance, measures carefully).
  
  
• From this story, what do you know about the distance a hummingbird can travel per day? Can you assume that what scientists have assumed (50 miles per day) that scientists have assumed is wrong? Why or why not?
  
  
  
• What do you wonder about Booker Sweeny's adventure?
  

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