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A LITTLE CURIOITY, MANY IDEA

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Draw, compare, observe or imagine: small proposals linked to the stories of Cabeceiras, with steps and sources.

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

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279 proposals in this selection

Travel through time

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Stone preserved drawings too

Marmoirais brings together ancient tombs and engravings.

Abadim · prehistory

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  1. Read the story and identify three clues used in the interpretation: ceramics, engravings and comparison with other sets.
  2. Make a free drawing on paper inspired by the idea of a message on the stone, without presenting it as reproduction of a local engraving.
  3. Save the questions about meaning and date: the form of a drawing does not solve everything.

A paper proposal to explore history at your own pace.

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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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Before the clog, a piece of alder

Choosing the wood was part of the work.

Outeiro · clog-making materials and tools

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  1. Draws five cards with verbs crack, blur, prepare the edge, pull the leather and open holes.
  2. Add to each card the name of the tool you find in history.
  3. Add a card with the final product: a punch. It is a paper comparison, not an activity with tools.

A paper proposal to explore history at your own pace.

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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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Before the railway, a hillfort

Arco has a much older history too.

Arco de Baúlhe · archaeological interpretation

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  1. Draw two villages and fields among them.
  2. Use arrow keys to represent the hypothesis of population change; do not draw a historical route as if it were proven.
  3. Compare the history of the Arch with that of the agricultural couple of Abadim.

A paper proposal to explore history at your own pace.

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

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Travel through time

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Gold and red in the church

The document preserved colours too.

Bucos · heritage described in 1758

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  1. Make a paper scheme with the center and both sides of the main altar described.
  2. Add the colors mentioned in the document, without displaying the drawing as reproduction of the current interior.
  3. Compare the historical description with the church record and identify what each source lets you know.

A paper proposal to explore history at your own pace.

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

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The flavours of Cabeceiras

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The oven gave a sign

Baking also meant paying attention to what you could see.

Pedraça · testimony collected in March 2011

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  1. Draw three cards: dough at rest, heated oven and round broa.
  2. Associate with each card the sign or gesture mentioned in the story.
  3. Compare it with a memory of your family's bread, writing down who told it and when.

A paper proposal to explore history at your own pace.

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

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The flavours of Cabeceiras

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The bread kept the next batch alive

A small piece of dough linked one batch to the next.

Oral memory · March 2011

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  1. Draw two batches and connect them with an arrow representing the portion of stored mass.
  2. Add a second line with the change to bakery yeast described in the collection.
  3. Record the date of the testimony: it is not a description of all kitchens today.

A paper proposal to explore history at your own pace.

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

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Crafts and memories

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A house organised the celebration

Cooking below; food waiting for the table above.

Gondiães · organising the celebration in 2012

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  1. Draw two rectangles, one per floor, and distribute the elements described.
  2. Set an arrow from preparation to serving food.
  3. Imagine that tasks would require carrying objects between the two floors.

A paper proposal to explore history at your own pace.

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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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A rod measures the sharing

At the Festa das Papas, serving is a ritual too.

2012 account · Gondiães

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  1. On a sheet, represent a table and mark equal intervals with a strip of paper.
  2. Place in each interval three symbols for the foods mentioned.
  3. Compare distributing sets across the table with sharing a set among people.

A paper proposal to explore history at your own pace.

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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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Water had a built route too

A levada is not always a dressed-stone channel.

Cabeceiras de Basto · water heritage documented in 2011

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  1. Draws three elements on a sheet: a weir or puddle, a levada and a mill.
  2. Connect them with arrows and write with each one: store, drive or use the water to move the mill.
  3. Read the story of the water shifts. Add to the drawing a question about who decided when each person could use the water.

A scheme to understand reading, without having to go into a mill or go through a levada.

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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

Try listening and looking

Similar names, different relatives

A swallow is not a small swift.

Painzela · local record and general biology

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  1. Choose an accessible place where you can stay still for a few minutes. Listen before looking for a bird.
  2. Note whether you heard sounds, saw a bird perched or flying, or saw no birds. Describe only what you could make out.
  3. Keep the date and place with your notes. If you do not know the species, leave that part open.

You do not need to identify the species to make these notes. Observe from a distance without approaching nests.

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

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Travel through time

Try to interpret

A castle read through the ground

In Eiró, the circular shape and ditch tell a story.

Rio Douro · archaeological interpretation

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  1. Read the description and draw only the elements it mentions: circular shape, landfill and moat.
  2. Tick with another color something I would like to know, but the text does not clarify.
  3. Compare your drawing with the reading of Monte do Castelo. What clues come from the terrain and what interpretations?

A proposal for reading and drawing; does not require movement to the site.

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

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Travel through time

Try to investigate.

Three questions for the past: land, mountains and rivers

The Parish Memories began with a questionnaire.

Cabeceiras de Basto · reading the Parish Memories

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  1. Choose one of the following stories and point out the place, time and source indicated.
  2. Write a fact that the document supports and a question to which you cannot answer with that text.
  3. Compared to another story: a date can refer to a document, a construction or an interpretation. It identifies what the case is.

A reading proposal: does not require movement or access to a file.

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

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