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A LITTLE CURIOITY, MANY IDEA

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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

The flavours of Cabeceiras

Corn: grain, flour or pasta?

A recipe learned at parties

Shroud popes also tell how knowledge circulates.

Refojos · kitchen memory collected by the Museum

See the 3 steps
  1. Find the form of corn in Helena's popes and in the thousands.
  2. Open the popes of Gondiães and compare the preparation and occasion described.
  3. Writes an ingredient difference and a context difference: the word popes does not mean a single recipe.

Compare the collections; do not combine the steps of different recipes.

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

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A world under the leaves

Ride two trips on paper

Insect hitchhiking spores

Not the whole trip starts with the wind.

General biology of fungi · no local occurrence attributed

See the 3 steps
  1. Draw three houses: spore exit, transport and arrival.
  2. Make a sequence for the example of flies and another for drop followed by wind.
  3. Check what remains unknown after arrival: conditions to start new growth.

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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Crafts and memories

Sets a historical calendar

The year was also counted by the fairs

The Abbot of Faia left a calendar that went beyond the parish.

Faia · witness on municipality fairs in 1758

See the 3 steps
  1. Mark July and September on a sheet with the dates and duration indicated.
  2. It marks apart the monthly fair of the day 2.
  3. Write with each reference if the source identifies the place or if that information is not in this reading.

The exercise retains the testimony of 1758; it is not for planning visits to current fairs.

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

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Crafts and memories

The animal and the leira

Barrosan also helped to work the land

Before the table, there's a history of fields and animals.

Gondiães · historical link to the Barrosan race

See the 3 steps
  1. Draw three cards: cattle, work on small dairy and soil fertilization.
  2. Connect the cards with arrows and explain each relationship with reading information.
  3. Add a note distinguishing the historical link to Gondiães from an animal count present 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

Does the document answer?

The mountains also gave coal

In Cavez, the memory of 1758 connects forests to fuel.

Cavez · rural economy in 1758

See the 3 steps
  1. Makes two columns: present information and open questions.
  2. It puts the reference to coal in the first and the location of coal coal in the second.
  3. Pick another story of 1758 and repeat the comparison.

A proposal to distinguish historical information from details that should be investigated.

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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

The snout tells part of the story

The otter wears the scuba suit

By the waterproof and paws that help you swim.

Serra da Cabreira · regional reference and biology of the species

See the 3 steps
  1. Enlarge the photograph and accompany the mustaches around the snout.
  2. Compare what you see from your paws with what the text explains about life in water.
  3. Separate what is visible from what the image does not show: waterproofness, swimming and night activity.

The image was taken in a German fauna park. It serves to observe details, not to locate otters in the Cabreira.

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

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Time travel

What does the photograph let you know?

A bridge, a name and a question

Calling him Roman doesn't solve your age.

Painzela · patrimonial identification without chronology demonstrated

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  1. In the photograph, look for the stone arch, water and vegetation that covers part of the bridge.
  2. Make two columns: visible details and information that need another source. Place the construction date on Monday.
  3. Compare the wooden bridge described in 1758 in Vilarinho. Separate name, material and date of testimony, without treating the two bridges as the same crossing.

Observe the photograph and texts; you do not need to go to the site or enter the water line.

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

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Between rivers and mountains

What do the numbers count?

In the wasteland, the forest finds the water lines

A project of Rio Douro helps to read different functions of the same landscape.

Rio Douro · project announced in April 2025

See the 3 steps
  1. Make a card for the total area and others for the areas announced in the first phase.
  2. Write with each number the purpose described, without treating it as completed work.
  3. Write down a question only an implementation report could answer.

Comparison of the 2025 announcement; it is neither a map of interventions nor an evaluation of results.

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

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Crafts and memories

What's changed in tradition?

The fairs also had a side of conflict

The past of the game helps to understand its transformation.

Pau Game · historical context

See the 3 steps
  1. It makes two columns: context of conflict and cultural presentation.
  2. Note what changes in purpose and what continues to depend on learning.
  3. Distinguish the story told in the inventory of a training announcement or current show.

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

What do thorns hide?

Winter is not a sleep after

The hedgehog can return to activity when the temperature rises.

Hedgehog · General biology

See the 3 steps
  1. Look for the contour of the body and the small area of the head visible in the photograph.
  2. Draw only the parts you can distinguish; leave your paws and tail blank if you don't see them.
  3. Compared with the explanation of hibernation: a July photograph does not allow studying the entire annual cycle.

Image taken in Kalkar, Germany. No need to search, touch or change a position animal.

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

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Crafts and memories

What do you see in a party chronicle?

New chestnuts and clay mugs

The memory of the party also has flavors.

Refojos · flavours described in 1956

See the 3 steps
  1. It makes three groups: transport, products and table.
  2. Distributes to the groups the elements mentioned in the excerpt of 1956.
  3. Compare the new chestnut from the party with the dry chestnut saved for the crops.

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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Read the landscape through the plants

What a Summer Picture Tells

An oak tree can keep dried leaves

Falling in the fall is not the only fate of a leaf.

Local register · Union of parishes of Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas · general botany

See the 3 steps
  1. Opens the July register in Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas and follows the outline of a sheet.
  2. Separate what you see in the image of what you read over winter: visible wolf leaves, persistent dry leaves described.
  3. Write a question that only a new observation at another station could clarify.

An exploration of the photograph, without collecting plants. The image documents a moment, not all the characteristics of the species.

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

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