Between rivers and mountainsTry observing
The river helps explain the fields too
Near the Tâmega, the ground holds another story.
Geology and agriculture · lowlands of the municipality
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- Draw a slope and a low zone by a river without trying to draw a scale map.
- Tick where the source describes granite outcrops and where it refers deposits of sand and clay.
- Compare the drawing with the story of the terraces: what different forms can a field have?
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Read the landscape through the plantsTry observing
Olive trees, cork oaks and vines
From the hillsides to cultivated river plains.
Agricultural landscape
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- From an accessible point, look for horizontal lines on the slope: can you distinguish walls and heights?
- Make a sketch with three elements you can see: relief, vegetation and signs of cultivation.
- Compare the slope with a more flat area, without entering fields or properties. What changes in landscape organization?
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Between rivers and mountainsTry observing
Fish that entered the written record
An old document also describes life in the rivers.
Saint Nicholas · environmental history of 1758
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- Read the names of the fish registered in 1758 and look for quantity in the text.
- Compare this memory with the reading of the blackbird: which describes an old document and which includes a local photograph?
- 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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Travel through timeTry observing
Pedraça can be told through its houses too
Beyond the church lies a landscape of homes.
Pedraça · residential heritage
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- Separates the text clues into two columns: place names and building characteristics.
- Choose a mentioned house and ask a question about its history.
- Distinguish what is already documented from the information that would still need to be sought.
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Life you do not always seeTry observing
Tiny shelters beneath the water
Some larvae use sand and plant fragments.
General biology · aquatic insects, without a local species inventory
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- Observe the water from an accessible and stable margin.
- Look for differences between sand, vegetable remains and small shelters without collecting them.
- If you do not distinguish any, save the question for an accompanying activity.
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Read the landscape through the plantsTry observing
Plants shaped by human hands
Camellias and yews are part of the story of these gardens.
Painzela · gardens and skills
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- Draw a geometric shape and silhouette of an animal you imagine in a worked plant.
- Compare the drawing to the meaning of topiary in history.
- 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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Travel through timeTry observing
When football gained a pitch
Pereiras also belongs to sporting memory.
Pereiras, Refojos · football in the 20th century
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- Mark 1925 and 1982 on a timeline.
- Write to each date the documented event.
- Think of a playing space you know: what memories of a place stay when that space changes?
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Between rivers and mountainsTry observing
Four pools and a shared irrigation channel
In Gondiães, storing and directing water was collective work.
Gondiães · 2008 municipal inventory
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- It represents four puddles: three next and one further away.
- It connects them to a canal and distinguishes natural land from stone gutters.
- Tick watering and grinding as documented uses; do not turn the scheme into a path to visit.
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Crafts and memoriesTry observing
Leaving with memories of the game
Players’ testimonies also speak of emigration.
Bucos · testimony collected in 2020
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- Choose one of the three stories: departure, memory or return.
- You find in the text the person, the place and what connected your life to the game.
- Think of a knowledge you learned from someone: what would it take to convey it to someone else?
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Between rivers and mountainsTry observing
Follow the water’s path
The Levada de Víbora brings nature and human work together.
Landscape · Abadim
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- Before leaving, compare the track record with another walk available on the site.
- If you walk the path, observe from a safe point the relationship between the channel and the relief, without leaving the route.
- In a later design, it distinguishes the water that flows naturally from the water that is driven by the lead.
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A world beneath the leavesTry observing
A lichen is a partnership
The world of fungi goes far beyond caps.
Knowledge of nature · General biology
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- Observe a surface with visible lichens of the path, without shaving, wetting or highlighting parts.
- Compare contours and textures: look like a adherent crust, small leaves or branched structures?
- Draw or photograph the set. Use the forms to ask questions without assigning a species only by color.
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Life you do not always seeTry observing
A mussel begins by travelling with a fish
Two lives connected beneath the surface.
Species biology · documentary reference in the municipality
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- Draw a fish and below the bottom of the river.
- Draw an arrow between the two to represent the passage described in the scheme.
- Explain in your own words why the two stories, the fish and the mussel, are connected.
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