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They are activities to explore at your pace, not events with registration. The indicated time is that of reading support.

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Read the landscape through the plants

Draw connections in the landscape

A landscape needs connections

The gaps between green spaces matter too.

Landscape ecology of the municipality

See the 3 steps
  1. Draw three green spots apart on a sheet.
  2. Add a line of water and an imaginary alley that brings the spots closer. The drawing illustrates an idea; it does not prove the passage of animals.
  3. Look in the related readings a real example of riverbank or municipality park.

An activity to try at your own pace, without collecting specimens.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Read the landscape through the plants

Draw calendar

Flowers and fruit on the same branch

The strawberry tree’s seasons overlap.

Local observation · União das freguesias de Arco de Baúlhe e Vila Nune · general botany

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  1. Draw two consecutive autumns and connect the flower of the first to the ripe fruit of the second.
  2. Add a new flower in the second fall.
  3. Separately mark the role of insects in flowering and birds in seed dispersal.

A paper scheme, without collecting flowers or fruits.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Read the landscape through the plants

Draw the set and the parts

A blackberry is a small cluster

A bramble’s fruit has more detail than it first appears.

General botany · bramble

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  1. Draws a blueberry as a set of small rounded units.
  2. Next door, he draws a sheet composed of three to five folioli.
  3. Write with the drawings: set of fruits and parts of a leaf.

Activity from reading, without collecting plants or tasting fruits.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Read the landscape through the plants

Draws the contrast of the slope

Orada changed from summit to valley

The same mountain could reveal different landscapes.

Alvite · written account from 1758

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  1. Draw a schematic slope and separate the top of the faldas.
  2. Place each element where the account refers to it: penedos, trees, cultures and residents.
  3. Open the story of the shepherding and add another function of the mountains, identifying the year of the fountain.

Design of a historical description, without scale and without representing the current uses.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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A world beneath the leaves

Draws stepwise growth

Why do mushrooms grow in a circle?

The pattern of hidden growth appears on the surface.

General biology · growth of fungi

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  1. Mark a point on a sheet and draw three filaments from it.
  2. In a second figure, it prolongs and branches the filaments; it adds links between some branches.
  3. In a third figure, it marks a possible margin of mushroom appearance. It distinguishes the visible ring net.

Simplified growth model without assigning a size, age or species to a real circle.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Crafts and memories

Draw craft

Pull, pierce and nail: making a clog

Each tool solves a small part of the work.

Terras de Basto · clog-making inventory

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  1. Draw a wooden base and a leather strip without any real tools.
  2. Connect three words to the drawing: pull, drill and preach.
  3. Associate each gesture to the described tool and add the pliers to correct an error.

An activity to try at your own pace, without collecting specimens.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Life you do not always see

Draw pattern, explain limit

A fish with a network of scales

Dark scale edges create a pattern on the northern Iberian chub.

Cavez · record from 2016–2017 and general biology

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  1. Draws an elongated outline for the fish.
  2. Inside, it represents scales with dark margins, creating a net.
  3. Adds a caption: drawing based on description, not identification of a copy.

Uses paper or a digital drawing; it is not necessary to observe a live animal.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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A world beneath the leaves

Draws the food path

A meal prepared on the outside

Fungi do not need a mouth to obtain food.

General biology · feeding of fungi

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  1. Draws three boxes: organic matter, simple compounds and hyphae. Connects them and indicates where the enzymes act.
  2. It adds two zones to the drawing: one rich in food and another poor. It represents branching differences.
  3. Draws two separate pieces of wood and a cord that binds them. Compares this model with the explanation of the rhizomorphs.

A paper experience, without cultivating fungi or collecting specimens.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Travel through time

Draws the written portrait

Three altars in one nave

A church can also be portrayed in words.

Alvite · church described in 1758

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  1. On a paper, write the names of the three altars mentioned.
  2. Separate the list of altars from the list of building spaces.
  3. Identify the year of description before comparing it to another church.

The scheme represents the reading of the document, not a plan of the current building.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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A world beneath the leaves

Draws possible relationships, not certainties

Not every root makes a partner

Some associations are more specific.

Micorrizas · general ecology

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  1. Draw two different plants and a fungus on paper.
  2. Connect the fungus to plants with dashed lines and mark them as hypotheses, not as confirmed associations.
  3. Add a caption: being near a plant does not prove the partnership. The scheme does not represent a observed location.

Conceptual activity: does not require digging roots or collecting fungi.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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A world beneath the leaves

Draw three shapes

Corals that do not live in the sea

A fungus can resemble branches or folds of jelly.

General biology · forms of fungi

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  1. On a leaf, draw a hat, a branched shape and a rounded fold form.
  2. Write down what changes in the outline of each drawing. They are imagined schemes, not pictures of species.
  3. Compare the drawings with the source descriptions, without manipulating copies to test the texture.

A drawing activity, without collecting or identifying edibleity.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Read the landscape through the plants

Draws three clues

A leaf with a wavy outline

Look at the leaf’s outline and stalk on a pedunculate oak.

Botany · general features

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  1. Watch the photograph and draw the outline of a leaf, marking the wolves.
  2. Follow the ribs you can see and mark where the leaf connects to the branch.
  3. Compared with the description of the subspecies: the photograph illustrates Quercus robur, but does not confirm all the details of this description.

An activity to try at your own pace, without collecting specimens.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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