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A LITTLE CURIOITY, MANY IDEA

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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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Life you do not always see

Compare the two animals in the photograph

A lizard between sun and moisture

Needing warmth does not mean living far from water.

Reptiles · general biology, without a confirmed local record in this profile

See the 2 steps
  1. Watch the two lizards in the photograph and choose two color or pattern differences you can see.
  2. Draw these differences and separate them from what you can't conclude by the image, like the behavior before or after the shooting.

Photography taken in Spain. The exercise does not identify animals found in the municipality.

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

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Time travel

Compare details

Three houses, three details

A chapel, a staircase and a portal to read architecture.

Built heritage · St Nicholas

See the 3 steps
  1. Make three cards with the names of the houses.
  2. Associate with each other the detail mentioned in history.
  3. Mark the uncertain date of Casa da Breia with a question mark.

You can compare from the text without entering properties.

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

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Time travel

Compare the three records

Three places, several layers of past

Outeiro is also known through archaeology.

Outeiro · archaeological inventory published in 2026

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  1. Make three cards with the names of the places.
  2. On each card, it separates the type of trace from the assigned time.
  3. It looks in the text which allows you to order large periods and which does not allow you to mark an exact year.

Documentary comparison at home; does not propose visits or material collection.

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

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Time travel

Compare pictures of churches

Five altars, many stories

The memory of 1758 lets you look inside the church.

Saint Nicholas · interior described in 1758

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  1. Count the altars mentioned and separate the main of the rest.
  2. Compare the description with the church stories of Bucos and Alvite.
  3. Register what you cannot conclude about the present interiors from these accounts.

A reading of historical sources without presupposing access to buildings.

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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

Compare without dismounting the shelter

A log can be a little home

Decaying wood is still full of connections.

General ecology · wood and biodiversity

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  1. From the way, observe a fallen branch and a standing tree. Do not peel or break the wood.
  2. Draw two columns: what I can see and what I can't know from the outside. Register visible shapes, cavities or reproductive structures.
  3. Compare with reading: a texture does not itself identify the fungus, and the absence of mushrooms does not show what happens inside the trunk.

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

Compare without trying to identify

No legs, but not a snake

A slow worm’s silhouette does not tell the whole story.

Reptiles · general biology, without a confirmed local record in this profile

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  1. It makes two columns: body shape and animal group.
  2. Puts the licraço as an elongated body without legs and as a lizard.
  3. Write a sentence about the difference between looking and belonging to a group.

Activity with reading. No need to search, pursue or handle animals.

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

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Crafts and memories

Compare sizes

Light in a small object

Oil lamps tell another story of the home.

Cavez and Basto · material culture

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  1. Trace three segments on paper using the same scale: 46, 17 and 27.
  2. Associate the first two to Cavez and the third to Devesa.
  3. Note that the height does not in itself inform how much light each piece produced.

Works with drawing and measurements, without lighting or experimenting with old objects.

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

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Between rivers and mountains

Compares three ways to use water

A river that powered mills but did not irrigate

Nearby water was not always accessible water.

Cavez · landscape described in 1758

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  1. It makes three columns: Cavez, Bucos and Alvite.
  2. After reading the related stories, note where water, mills or water retention appear.
  3. Emphasize a difference and write the explanation given by the document. Do not make it a description of the present.

It works with the accounts of 1758; the result is a historical comparison.

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

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Between rivers and mountains

Compare three grain sizes

Granite varies in grain size too

A seemingly uniform rock can reveal differences up close.

Geological complex of Cabeceiras de Basto · regional study

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  1. In a millimetric ruler, 1 mm, 3 mm and 6 mm are examples within the three ranges described.
  2. Draws three small fields with points of different sizes, identifying them as a scaleless scheme.
  3. Adds some larger crystals to the third field. It distinguishes the average dimension of the presence of exceptions.

Exercise on paper. It does not require collecting rocks, scratching walls or removing fragments.

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

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Crafts and memories

Builds the idea on paper

Wood holds the wine too

Casks, vats and barrels tell a craft’s story.

Crafts · Faia, Basto and Refojos

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  1. Draw a container with several vertical pieces and two or three rims around it.
  2. Identify the plasters and rims; mark which parts form the wall and which parts involve it.
  3. Compare with the wooden punch of the reading of Outeiro. Write a difference between digging/disguising one piece and joining several.

Conceptual scheme on paper, without reproducing tools or a local workshop.

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

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The flavours of Cabeceiras

Build a landscape of words

From valley to hill, the harvest changed

The landscape helped shape the pantry too.

Rio Douro · agriculture in 1758

See the 3 steps
  1. Draws a river and, next to it, a slope.
  2. Next to the river, he writes the products that the account associates with these places; on the mountain he writes the highlighted grain.
  3. Compared to Abadim: does the document also distinguish places within the same parish?

A drawing from descriptions of 1758; does not represent current plots or crops.

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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

From needle to slope

Needles come in pairs

A small detail to spot on maritime pine.

Forest landscape · species botany

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  1. In a drawing, it separates three scales: leaf, tree and set of trees.
  2. In the first, it represents a pair of needles; in the second, it marks trunk and canopy.
  3. In the third, it registers whether you observe trees of different appearance, without concluding only why they are species.

Observation from a path without removing branches or pine cones.

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

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