Life you do not always seeTry watching
A little bird that dives
The blackbird leads bird watching to the current.
Species biology · with local registration
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- Observe the photograph connected to the reading and look for the contrast between the white chest and the darker plumage.
- Compare the compact shape of the body with the short tail. Which of these details can you really see in the image?
- Separate what the image shows from what the text explains: diving and flight are not documented in this photograph.
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Between rivers and mountainsTry watching
A small river also draws the map
In Outeiro, Trout connects to Peio.
Outeiro · hydrographic network
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- Write Trouts and Peio on a sheet and connect the names with an arrow in the direction indicated by the source.
- Open the story of the encounter of the rivers in the Ranha to continue the discovery.
- Do not use this scheme as a path map: it represents a link between rivers.
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Read the landscape through the plantsTry watching
A small carpet full of life
Mosses invite a closer look.
General biology · mosses, without a local species inventory
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- Observe a small moss surface without removing it.
- Compare the shapes and textures you can distinguish.
- Check if the site is in the shade and if the surface looks damp.
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Life you do not always seeTry watching
An old log still feeds life
For the larvae of a beetle, decaying wood can be home and food.
Species registered in the municipality · general ecology
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- Open the photo of this reading and look for the details you can distinguish in the adult.
- Write down a visible feature and another feature that the image does not allow to confirm.
- Compare with the explanation of the larvae: what is photography observation and what is life cycle information?
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Read the landscape through the plantsTry watching
A tree with pale bark
Birch catches the eye before you even look at its leaves.
General botany · birch
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- In a tree that you can observe from the path, register bark, form of leaves and date.
- If there are no leaves, note that absence without identifying the species only by bark.
- Compare with the birch description and mark the characteristics you could not verify.
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Time travelTry watching
A house with three granaries
In Chouzas, the housing heritage meets that of the harvest.
Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas · memory and landscape
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- Look at the photo of the portal and list only the elements you can see.
- Compared to the three granaries mentioned in the text: what depends on the written description?
- Imagine a caption that distinguishes the frame of the photograph from the remaining patrimonial set.
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A world under the leavesTry watching
A fallen leaf still has its way
On the ground, matter changes hands.
General ecology · decomposition
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- Observe fallen leaves and wood from a path without stirring the blanket of the soil.
- Look for differences in texture and integrity: are there whole leaves and others already fragmented?
- Record what you see without assigning all transformation to fungi: isolated observation does not identify the organisms involved.
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Read the landscape through the plantsTry watching
One leaf, two sides
The olive tree’s silvery side also tells a story.
Hillside crops · olive botany
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- Observes the photograph: draw the contour and the central nerve of the sheet.
- The image does not show the two sides of the same sheet. Separate what you see from what the text explains on the lower face.
- If you observe an olive tree throughout the year, record separately leaves, flowers and fruits, without taking off material.
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Crafts and memoriesTry watching
A little pagela kept a collective concern
Devotion also left marks on paper.
Refojos · devotional memory of unknown date
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- Read the message and find the three groups you're addressing.
- It distinguishes the known date of publication of the unknown date of the object.
- If you hold a photograph or a family role, note that information has really written and that part depends on a memory.
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Life you do not always seeTry watching
A small frog, a large water connection
There are lives that depend on both the shore and the brook.
Species biology · registered at Rio Douro
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- Open the local photograph and look for the contour of the snout, the strip next to the eye and the hind legs.
- Make a small drawing only with the details you can distinguish; leave those that the image does not reveal blank.
- Compare the drawing to the description of the reading. A photograph has limits: you do not have to touch an animal to continue to learn.
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Crafts and memoriesTry watching
A bowl of seeds, a knowledge that continues
Learning from someone else is also part of the heritage.
Pedraça · memory of learning flax
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- Orders four moments: seeds, cultivation, spinning and weaving.
- It identifies who contributed to the beginning of Fatima Mota's activity.
- He chooses an everyday object and imagines how he could incorporate a traditional fabric without erasing the work of those who did it.
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Between rivers and mountainsTry watching
Vilar looks at Beça
Houses, slopes and water make up the landscape of the village.
Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas · memory and landscape
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- Draws three plans: a house, the whole village and the Beça valley.
- In each plan, it places an element referred to in the text.
- Add agriculture, livestock and crafts to the landscape reading: what questions would you like to explore about these works?
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