Life you do not always seeCompare the two animals in the photograph
A lizard between the sun and the humidity
Needing heat doesn't mean living away from the water.
Reptiles · general biology, no local occurrence confirmed in this form
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- Watch the two lizards in the photograph and choose two color or pattern differences you can see.
- 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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Time travelCompare details
Three houses, three details
A chapel, a staircase and a portal to read architecture.
Built heritage · St Nicholas
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- Make three cards with the names of the houses.
- Associate with each other the detail mentioned in history.
- 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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Time travelCompare 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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- Make three cards with the names of the places.
- On each card, it separates the type of trace from the assigned time.
- 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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Time travelCompare 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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- Count the altars mentioned and separate the main of the rest.
- Compare the description with the church stories of Bucos and Alvite.
- 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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A world under the leavesCompare without dismounting the shelter
A log can be a small house
Decomposing wood is still full of relationships.
General ecology · wood and biodiversity
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- From the way, observe a fallen branch and a standing tree. Do not peel or break the wood.
- Draw two columns: what I can see and what I can't know from the outside. Register visible shapes, cavities or reproductive structures.
- Compare with reading: a texture does not itself identify the fungus, and the absence of mushrooms does not show what happens inside the trunk.
A proposal to make at your pace, without collecting copies.
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Life you do not always seeCompare without trying to identify
No paws, but not a snake
The silhouette doesn't tell the whole story of the licranço.
Reptiles · general biology, no local occurrence confirmed in this form
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- It makes two columns: body shape and animal group.
- Puts the licraço as an elongated body without legs and as a lizard.
- 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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Crafts and memoriesCompare sizes
The light fit into a small piece
The lamps tell another story about the house.
Cavez and Basto · material culture
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- Trace three segments on paper using the same scale: 46, 17 and 27.
- Associate the first two to Cavez and the third to Devesa.
- 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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Between rivers and mountainsCompares three ways to use water
A river that moved but did not water
The water nearby was not always accessible water.
Cavez · landscape described in 1758
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- It makes three columns: Cavez, Bucos and Alvite.
- After reading the related stories, note where water, mills or water retention appear.
- 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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Between rivers and mountainsCompare three grain sizes
Granite also changes grain
A stone of uniform appearance can reveal differences when looking closely.
Geological complex of Cabeceiras de Basto · regional study
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- In a millimetric ruler, 1 mm, 3 mm and 6 mm are examples within the three ranges described.
- Draws three small fields with points of different sizes, identifying them as a scaleless scheme.
- 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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Crafts and memoriesBuilds the idea on paper
The wood also keeps the wine
Pipes, barrels and barrels tell a business story.
crafts · Faia, Basto and Refojos
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- Draw a container with several vertical pieces and two or three rims around it.
- Identify the plasters and rims; mark which parts form the wall and which parts involve it.
- 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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The flavours of CabeceirasBuild a landscape of words
From valley to hill, the harvest changed
The landscape also chose the pantry.
Rio Douro · agriculture in 1758
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- Draws a river and, next to it, a slope.
- Next to the river, he writes the products that the account associates with these places; on the mountain he writes the highlighted grain.
- 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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Read the landscape through the plantsFrom needle to slope
Needles come in pairs
A small detail to spot on maritime pine.
Forest landscape · species botany
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- In a drawing, it separates three scales: leaf, tree and set of trees.
- In the first, it represents a pair of needles; in the second, it marks trunk and canopy.
- 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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