Life you do not always seeA Transforming Family
The Iberian wolf
A documented presence in the municipality’s landscape.
Occurrence mentioned in the environmental document
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- Draws a family group with adults and pups from the description.
- Add arrows to represent growth and output of young people from the group.
- Compare two moments of the drawing: what would change in a countdown?
General biology scheme; it does not represent the number of wolves in a local pack.
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Read the landscape through the plantsA photograph doesn't show everything
A plant does not need flowers
Ferns tell a different story of reproduction.
Botany · species recorded in the municipality
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- Observe the local photograph and draw the general outline of a fronde.
- Separate from a list what you can see and what you know only from the botanical description.
- Add serums and spores in a separate caption without checking them in the photograph if they are not visible.
An activity to try at your own pace, without collecting specimens.
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Life you do not always seeA photo, a date
A grasshopper makes it through winter
The name Egyptian grasshopper does not confine the species to one country.
Species biology · photograph recorded in the municipality
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- Look for the date of registration in the local photograph.
- It makes two lines: meeting in Cabeceiras; winter description in the Gulbenkian Garden.
- Write down what each source allows to say and avoids joining the two places in one observation.
Comparison on screen without looking for or disturbing animals.
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Read the landscape through the plantsA rod, several moments
Foxgloves like the woodland edge
Not all woodland plants seek the forest interior.
Local observation · Cavez · general botany
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- Opens the photograph of Cavez and observes the orientation of the flowers along the stem.
- Compares an open flower with the buttons at the top: draw only the details you can see.
- It relates the photograph to the description of the edges and clearings, without using the environment to assign a subspecies.
An activity to try at your own pace, without collecting specimens.
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Travel through timeA story, different kinds of proof
A house between memory and evidence
The Constable’s tradition deserves to be told as tradition.
Pedraça · tradition recorded by the municipality
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- It identifies the expression with which the Municipality presents the narrative.
- Compared to the reference of 1258: what is being said in each case?
- Imagine the legend of an exhibition that tells tradition without presenting it as an event demonstrated.
An activity to try at your own pace, without collecting specimens.
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The flavours of CabeceirasOne table, four clues
Bread, wine and olive oil in a portrait of the land
The parish account also described what people harvested.
Santa Senhorinha · agricultural production described in 1758
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- Write bread, wine, olive oil and fruit on four cards.
- Group the cards as productions mentioned in the 1758 document.
- List questions that remain unanswered, such as cereals or fruit varieties: do not fill these gaps by assumption.
Proposal on paper or on screen, from reading and its sources. It does not require visit, collection of objects or confirmation of current conditions.
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Travel through timeA work, a set
A painting belongs to a larger story
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas belongs to a group of five works.
Refojos · sacred art collection
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- Draws five rectangles to represent the five paintings mentioned.
- In one of them it marks the title of the work presented by the Museum.
- Leaves the rest untitled: this news does not enumerate the other four paintings.
The design organizes the known information; it does not reconstitute the position or appearance of the altarpiece.
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Between rivers and mountainsA landscape in three planes
Moscoso looks out over the valley
Mountain houses, a stream and a name that stays with you.
Landscape · Rio Douro
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- Separate the houses, the valley and the relief in the background.
- Observe the photograph and note what you can recognize in each plan.
- Connect the elements by describing the landscape, without drawing a path between places that the reading does not establish.
Proposal on paper or on screen, from reading and its sources. It does not require visit, collection of objects or confirmation of current conditions.
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Read the landscape through the plantsOne break, three questions
A green space can teach us too
At Vinha de Mouros, leisure meets environmental education.
Refojos de Basto · history and mission of an educational centre
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- Choose a space photo or look from an accessible area. Note three elements you can see.
- Separate one question about plants, another about soil and another about the use of space by people.
- Look in the readings for an explanation for one of the questions. Let it confirm what the photograph or the source does not show.
Independent proposal for reading and observation, not a session of the municipal education programme.
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Crafts and memoriesOne play, several knowledge
Bucos’s wool travels with those who teach
Preserving a craft includes sharing it.
Casa da Lã and Mulheres de Bucos · sharing skills, 2024–2026
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- Make a list of the gestures cited in Landra's news.
- Choose one you don't know and turn it into a question for a visit: what tool is used and what changes in fiber?
- Distinguish in your note the gesture shown, the person explaining it and the name of the finished piece.
Paper preparation; confirms the marking and conditions in the form of Casa da Lã.
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Between rivers and mountainsOne stone, two drawings
Small grains tell how the rock cooled
Granite contains minerals you can distinguish by eye.
General geology · reading of granite texture
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- Choose a visible stone surface on a public path without removing fragments or scratching the surface.
- Draw first the set and then a small detail, marking differences in color and size of the grains you can observe.
- Separate observation and hypothesis: Write what you saw and leave the name of the rock open if you have no confirmation.
You don't have to pick up rocks or go into a quarry to make this observation.
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