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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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18 proposals in this selection

The flavours of Cabeceiras

The memory of a knowledge

Cavacas and roschilos, by the hands of those who know

Nazaré Oliveira showed how she made her sweets at a local history meeting.

Cavez · tasting in 2013

See the 3 steps
  1. Make a little record of the meeting: who showed, in what place, what year and what sweets he presented.
  2. Prepare three questions I would like to ask you about learning this craft without inventing the answers.
  3. Write a legend describing the 2013 demonstration without presenting it as available workshop today.

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

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Crafts and memories

Before, during and after the way

# To Rome with the punches in his hand #

Wearing shoes wasn't always wearing them.

Cavez · Rome account published in 1886

See the 3 steps
  1. Draws three boxes: manufacture, transport and wear.
  2. It links the history of the pilgrimage to the box that describes the observed gesture.
  3. Follow the tool reading and add a material or operation to the manufacturing box.

Activity from sources and readings; does not require displacement or manipulation of historical pieces.

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

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Time travel

Comparing arc shapes

Five arches, more than a while

An old bridge didn't stop in history.

History of Ponte de Cavez

See the 3 steps
  1. Draw an arc pointed and another semicircular, from the descriptions.
  2. Associate the three central openings and the two sides to the forms indicated in the text.
  3. Note the partial photograph: Mark only the visible arches without completing the frame as if you were seeing them all.

Reading and drawing exercises; schemes do not reproduce the dimensions of the bridge.

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

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Crafts and memories

Compare sizes

The light fit into a small piece

The lamps tell another story about the house.

Cavez and Basto · material culture

See the 3 steps
  1. Trace three segments on paper using the same scale: 46, 17 and 27.
  2. Associate the first two to Cavez and the third to Devesa.
  3. 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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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Between rivers and mountains

Compares 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

See the 3 steps
  1. It makes three columns: Cavez, Bucos and Alvite.
  2. After reading the related stories, note where water, mills or water retention appear.
  3. 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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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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The flavours of Cabeceiras

From the slope to the notebook

The vineyard climbs the hillside

Before the wine reaches the table, there is a landscape to discover.

Moimenta, Cavez · landscape of the vineyard

See the 3 steps
  1. Draws a slope and represents the terraces as terraces.
  2. He adds two questions: how is the land organized and what work is done there?
  3. If you look at a real landscape, record only what you can see from an accessible place; you do not assign caste by the distant appearance of the vineyard.

Landscape reading exercise, no entry into properties.

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

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The life you don't always see

Draw connections from the menu

A fish's menu also has insects

Feeding connects life in and out of water.

Cavez · 2016–2017 registration and general biology

See the 3 steps
  1. Draw three spaces: margin, water and bottom. Put a terrestrial insect on the bank and a fish in the water.
  2. Connect the insect to the fish with an arrow that means “can serve as food”. Add an aquatic larvae as another possibility.
  3. Open the related stories and add a documented relationship. Write next to the source: the drawing represents possibilities, not a meal you have observed.

Exercise with paper and pencil. No need to feed animals, capture them or enter the water.

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

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Time travel

Draws the relations of a parish

Eight places and six chapels

In Cavez, an ancient list draws relations between villages, residents and monasteries.

Cavez · settlement and devotion in 1758

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  1. Write the six names of the chapels and the place that accompanies each.
  2. Group them by responsibility: religious institutions, a particular patron saint or residents.
  3. Compared to Alvite and Rio Douro. He points out similarities without assuming that all places were organized in the same way.

A relationship scheme from 1758, without representing distances, current property or access to buildings.

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

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The life you don't always see

Draw pattern, explain limit

A fish with a net of scales

On the northern scale, the dark margins of the scales draw a pattern.

Cavez · 2016–2017 registration and general biology

See the 3 steps
  1. Draws an elongated outline for the fish.
  2. Inside, it represents scales with dark margins, creating a net.
  3. Adds a caption: drawing based on description, not identification of a copy.

Uses paper or a digital drawing; it is not necessary to observe a live animal.

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Support reading: about 2 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.

A proposal to make at your pace, without collecting copies.

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

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The life you don't always see

Choose two ways to live in the river

Six species under the surface

A sample shows a small portrait of the Tâmega in Cavez.

Cavez · 2016–2017 monitoring

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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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The flavours of Cabeceiras

Save a recipe with your story

A recipe also has someone who teaches it

The kitchen connects people, generations and parishes.

Cavez and Pedraça · transmission of recipe, 2011

See the 3 steps
  1. Choose a recipe that is part of your memory and write the name by which you know it.
  2. In your notebook or document, register ingredients, gestures and occasions when it was prepared. Separate the quantities you know from those you do not remember.
  3. Add who taught you, the place and date of your registration. If you collect someone else's memory, confirm with them how you want to be identified before sharing it.

Proposal to make on your own. The site does not receive or store this recipe.

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

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