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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

Draws the journey from a recipe

A recipe that has crossed continents

The lemon cookies came with a family story.

Refojos · family memory published in 2020

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  1. Draws three points: the magazine, the family kitchen in Mozambique and the museum.
  2. Connect them and score about 1966 and 2020 at the corresponding moments.
  3. Pick a recipe you know and record what you know about who transmitted it.

It uses dates as references to family memory, without inventing steps that the source does not count.

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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 only what you see

A leopard-shaped slug

The discreet animals also deserve to enter the portrait of the municipality.

Arco de Baúlhe e Vila Nune · local register and general biology

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  1. It outlines the body of the slug from the photograph.
  2. Mark some spots and the position of the tentacles.
  3. Write next to the date and the author. Your drawing interprets an image, does not add a new field log.

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

Draws heights on paper

This mug made coffee

Not all mugs were just for drinking.

Land Museum Collection of Basto · Arco de Baúlhe

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  1. Draw three lines with the heights indicated, using the same scale for all.
  2. Compare mug and brazier: are almost the same height, but have different diameters.
  3. Write next to each name your function. Lines compare measurements; do not show the shape of objects.

Activity with pencil and ruler, without manipulating or heating parts.

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

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Time travel

Draw the links of the village

A small bridge, a long way

Married was in the way of a lot of people.

Bucos · transport in 1758

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  1. Write on a sheet Casares, parish church, Fox and mills, without putting them on a real map.
  2. Connect each name to the need described: crossing, receiving news, cult or grinding.
  3. It distinguishes what the text describes from what it merely proposes, such as the stone bridge.

Scheme of historical relations, without distances or indication of itinerary.

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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 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

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  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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Time travel

Draw the three lives of the station

One line took forty years to arrive

The Arc was the end point of a trip through Tâmega.

History of transport · Arco de Baúlhe

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  1. Draws three boxes: passengers, goods and museum.
  2. Associates to each box a function described in the stories of this route.
  3. Search in the text which of the working spaces began to receive exhibitions.

A proposal to make with texts, paper and pencils, no movement.

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

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The flavours of Cabeceiras

Draws two words fields

In the same parish, the harvest changed

In 1758, the cold separated two agricultural landscapes.

Abadim · agriculture described in 1758

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  1. It makes two columns: Torre and Santo António; Travassô, Porto d’Olho and Torrinheiras.
  2. It distributes the cultures mentioned by each column.
  3. It compares with the history of the cereals of Bucos, without turning the lists into quantities.

Comparison of historical descriptions; it is not a current agricultural calendar.

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

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Between rivers and mountains

Draw two levels

Above, the grinding; below, the movement

A mill is also organized vertically.

Cabeceiras de Basto · windmill architecture studied in 2011

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  1. Draw two boxes, one over the other.
  2. Identify the cable below and grind it on top. Add an arrow for the water to arrive at engine engine level.
  3. Compare with the reading of the levadas: extend the drawing out of the building to the canal that leads the water.

Paper scheme to understand the description; it does not represent a concrete building.

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

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A world under the leaves

Draws two ways to start the journey

A drop can put spores to travel

Rain also participates in dispersion.

General biology of fungi · no local occurrence attributed

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  1. Draw a bag with an opening and a drop falling on it. Uses an arrow to exit the spores.
  2. Next door, he draws a cover that breaks and leaves the spores exposed.
  3. Adds wind or water after release. Marks where the first moment ends and the transport begins.

A paper activity: it is not necessary to touch, tighten or collect fungi.

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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

Draws two ways to transport

Small loads on the paws

The pollen can travel in plain sight.

Pollinators · general biology

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  1. It schematically represents a bee and marks the hind legs.
  2. In a second drawing, it indicates hair under the abdomen as another possibility described.
  3. He writes the same question in both: what detail would it take to distinguish the structure?

Scheme based on description; does not assign a structure to an insect that has not been identified.

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

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Between rivers and mountains

Draw spaces and connections

Under the ground there's also water

The water map doesn't end up on the surface.

Council · Water resources in the 2025 report

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  1. Draws two rectangles with the same number of small circles inside.
  2. One of them connects several circles by lines; the other, leaves them separate.
  3. It uses the drawing to explain the difference between there being space and there are paths between spaces.

Paper model to understand the idea; it does not represent a rock or a concrete aquifer.

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