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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

A world beneath the leaves

Two lichens, two forms

It looks like a leaf, but it is a partnership

Among the mosses, a lichen deserves a second look.

Abadim · local record and general biology

See the 3 steps
  1. Observe the lobes and depressions in Lobarina's photograph.
  2. Opens Lasallia's photograph and compares contour and protrusions.
  3. Note a visible difference and another that you know only through description, such as attachment to support.

An activity with photographs, without collecting or manipulating copies.

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

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Between rivers and mountains

Two heights, different paths

From mountains to valley, the map changes height

Look at Cabeceiras from north to south.

Relief of the municipality

See the 3 steps
  1. It marks on paper a mountain point and a valley point, without assigning them invented locations or quotas.
  2. Connects the same dots by a short line and by a longer one, with curves.
  3. Compared what changed: the length of the path changed, but the heights of the two extremes remained.

Conceptual scheme, without scale or indication of a real path.

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

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Crafts and memories

Two colors, two informations

One almude, two colours remembered

The inventory records more than an object’s shape.

Pedraça · object inventoried in 2015

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  1. Split a sheet between the original color and the color described in the inventory.
  2. Write down on each side the color indicated by the source.
  3. Adds a question that the text does not answer, such as the date the object was repainted.

Reading exercise of a historical description; it is not a restoration proposal.

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

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Time travel

Two dates, two places

Two outcasts, seven days

October 1514 left two marks on the territory.

Documented history · 1514

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  1. Draw a line for October 1514 and mark the days 5 and 12.
  2. Associate Cabeceiras and Vadym with each date. Add the current name of Vadym.
  3. Open a story of Abadim and distinguish the date of the document from the dates that the source assigns to the heritage.

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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Time travel

Two sources, two questions

Bread also tells a story of devotion

In the accounts of Santa Senhorinha, food reveals concerns of the rural world.

Santa Senhorinha · historical reading of hagiography

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  1. Compare this reading with the harvests of 1758.
  2. It identifies the purpose of each text: religious narrative or response to a parish inquiry.
  3. Write a question about food that each source helps to explore.

It is not necessary to accept the narrative as literal proof to study what it reveals about its context.

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

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Time travel

Two ways to count

A village between a manor and two legends

In Cunhas, the built heritage finds the oral tradition.

Cunhas · heritage and legends in the municipal guide

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  1. He writes two titles on a sheet: referred heritage and told legend.
  2. Distribute for them the elements of this story.
  3. Choose one of the legends and imagine an illustration, identifying it as your creation inspired by the narrative.

It distinguishes the oral tradition of a proven event; the design does not reconstruct a historical building.

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

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Time travel

Two ways to count the bridge

The voice that had built above

Around the bridge, memory also invented paths.

Local legend · Ponte de Cavez

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  1. Choose an episode of legend and a moment of bridge chronology.
  2. Write next to each the type of source: traditional narrative, parochial memory or news of a work.
  3. Compare what each account seeks to convey. An episode of the legend does not need to receive a construction date.

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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Crafts and memories

Two memories, two days

News had its own arrival day

Two postal points connected Vila Nune with Porto.

Vila Nune · communications in 1758

See the 3 steps
  1. Create a line for Vila Nune and another for Santa Senhorinha, with columns for place of support, arrival and departure.
  2. Just fill out what each report says: keep Monday and Tuesday on different lines.
  3. Check what you will find: cause of difference, route of each card and delivery duration. Compare the information without choosing a version per guess.

Comparison of documents from 1758. It does not represent current postal hours.

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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

Choose two ways to live in the river

Six species beneath the surface

A sampling survey offers a small portrait of the Tâmega at Cavez.

Cavez · monitoring in 2016–2017

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  1. Open two cards and choose a difference: current, power, displacement or origin.
  2. Read the corresponding stories and write a general feature of each fish.
  3. On the other hand, it records separately the common location: presence on sampling of Cavez of 2016–2017.

Comparison of sources on the screen; no need to catch fish or enter the river.

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

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Between rivers and mountains

Choose three runways from the landscape

A mountain and a river to locate Passos

Two names help you read the municipality’s south-west.

Passos · relief and water

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  1. It makes three small drawings: a mountains, a watercourse and a construction.
  2. It combines the names mentioned in the text, without inventing distances between them.
  3. It opens one of the related stories and adds a question about the work or memory of this place.

A reading exercise; the drawings do not form a pedestrian route.

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

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Crafts and memories

Try creating

Linen and wool took new steps

Local skills enter footwear design.

Pedraça and Bucos · textiles and design

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  1. Read the stories of linen of Pedraça, wool of Bucos and clogs of Outeiro.
  2. Choose two mentioned materials and draw an object that could combine them.
  3. Give your idea a name and write down the knowledge that inspired it. It is your creation, not a historical piece.

A design and imagination proposal, with materials of your choice.

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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 landscape reaches the honey too

Heather connects the hills with the flavours on the table.

Cabeceiras · regional production area

See the 3 steps
  1. Draw the flower path → bee → hive → jar.
  2. Add in this drawing the collection and extraction work described in history.
  3. If you have a pack of honey at home, compare the name and origin indicated on the label. The colour itself does not confirm the origin.

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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