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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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Between rivers and mountains

Try observing

The river helps explain the fields too

Near the Tâmega, the ground holds another story.

Geology and agriculture · lowlands of the municipality

See the 3 steps
  1. Draw a slope and a low zone by a river without trying to draw a scale map.
  2. Tick where the source describes granite outcrops and where it refers deposits of sand and clay.
  3. Compare the drawing with the story of the terraces: what different forms can a field have?

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

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Olive trees, cork oaks and vines

From the hillsides to cultivated river plains.

Agricultural landscape

See the 3 steps
  1. From an accessible point, look for horizontal lines on the slope: can you distinguish walls and heights?
  2. Make a sketch with three elements you can see: relief, vegetation and signs of cultivation.
  3. Compare the slope with a more flat area, without entering fields or properties. What changes in landscape organization?

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

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Between rivers and mountains

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Fish that entered the written record

An old document also describes life in the rivers.

Saint Nicholas · environmental history of 1758

See the 3 steps
  1. Read the names of the fish registered in 1758 and look for quantity in the text.
  2. Compare this memory with the reading of the blackbird: which describes an old document and which includes a local photograph?
  3. Write a question that these sources leave open about the current river. Do not turn the lack of information into an answer.

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

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Travel through time

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Pedraça can be told through its houses too

Beyond the church lies a landscape of homes.

Pedraça · residential heritage

See the 3 steps
  1. Separates the text clues into two columns: place names and building characteristics.
  2. Choose a mentioned house and ask a question about its history.
  3. Distinguish what is already documented from the information that would still need to be sought.

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

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Life you do not always see

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Tiny shelters beneath the water

Some larvae use sand and plant fragments.

General biology · aquatic insects, without a local species inventory

See the 3 steps
  1. Observe the water from an accessible and stable margin.
  2. Look for differences between sand, vegetable remains and small shelters without collecting them.
  3. If you do not distinguish any, save the question for an accompanying activity.

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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

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Plants shaped by human hands

Camellias and yews are part of the story of these gardens.

Painzela · gardens and skills

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  1. Draw a geometric shape and silhouette of an animal you imagine in a worked plant.
  2. Compare the drawing to the meaning of topiary in history.
  3. The photograph shows the entrance of the house, not the patterned bushes. Identify what is visible without imagining these details in the image.

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

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Travel through time

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When football gained a pitch

Pereiras also belongs to sporting memory.

Pereiras, Refojos · football in the 20th century

See the 3 steps
  1. Mark 1925 and 1982 on a timeline.
  2. Write to each date the documented event.
  3. Think of a playing space you know: what memories of a place stay when that space changes?

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

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Between rivers and mountains

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Four pools and a shared irrigation channel

In Gondiães, storing and directing water was collective work.

Gondiães · 2008 municipal inventory

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  1. It represents four puddles: three next and one further away.
  2. It connects them to a canal and distinguishes natural land from stone gutters.
  3. Tick watering and grinding as documented uses; do not turn the scheme into a path to visit.

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

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Crafts and memories

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Leaving with memories of the game

Players’ testimonies also speak of emigration.

Bucos · testimony collected in 2020

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  1. Choose one of the three stories: departure, memory or return.
  2. You find in the text the person, the place and what connected your life to the game.
  3. Think of a knowledge you learned from someone: what would it take to convey it to someone else?

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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Between rivers and mountains

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Follow the water’s path

The Levada de Víbora brings nature and human work together.

Landscape · Abadim

See the 3 steps
  1. Before leaving, compare the track record with another walk available on the site.
  2. If you walk the path, observe from a safe point the relationship between the channel and the relief, without leaving the route.
  3. In a later design, it distinguishes the water that flows naturally from the water that is driven by the lead.

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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

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A lichen is a partnership

The world of fungi goes far beyond caps.

Knowledge of nature · General biology

See the 3 steps
  1. Observe a surface with visible lichens of the path, without shaving, wetting or highlighting parts.
  2. Compare contours and textures: look like a adherent crust, small leaves or branched structures?
  3. Draw or photograph the set. Use the forms to ask questions without assigning a species only by color.

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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

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A mussel begins by travelling with a fish

Two lives connected beneath the surface.

Species biology · documentary reference in the municipality

See the 3 steps
  1. Draw a fish and below the bottom of the river.
  2. Draw an arrow between the two to represent the passage described in the scheme.
  3. Explain in your own words why the two stories, the fish and the mussel, are connected.

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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