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A notebook.
Your findings.

Up to six proposals of Cabeceiras, in your own order, to do it at home, in company or on a break.

2 de 6 propostas escolhidas · faça-as ao seu ritmo.

PROPOSTA 1 DE 2 · Travel through time

Try observing

Gondiães and Vilar de Cunhas · memory and landscape

A house with three granaries

At Casa de Chouzas, three 19th-century granaries stand alongside the manor house highlighted by the municipality. The group connects two functions: living and storing the harvest. Rather than looking only at the main house, it is worth recognising the importance of buildings supporting agriculture. The introduction to Vilar de Cunhas places this heritage in a landscape of plateau and mountain, shaped by farming and pastoralism. House and granaries can be read in that working context, although the source does not detail each property’s production. The house’s dating is less firm: the municipality presents it as perhaps 19th-century, while assigning the granaries to the 19th century. That difference should remain visible. The photograph accompanying the reading shows the portal, not the three granaries. The heritage reference does not confirm access to the group.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Look at the photo of the portal and list only the elements you can see.
  2. Compared to the three granaries mentioned in the text: what depends on the written description?
  3. Imagine a caption that distinguishes the frame of the photograph from the remaining patrimonial set.

An activity to try at your own pace, without collecting specimens.

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Sources of this proposal

My findings

An idea, a drawing or a question to go on.

PROPOSTA 2 DE 2 · Between rivers and mountains

Draw a river inside

Middle and upper Tâmega basin · landscape studied in 2016–2017

The river has a woodland too

The 2016–2017 report describes riverside woodland in the middle and upper Tâmega basin with alders, ashes and willows, and birches along smaller waterways. It notes that these strips are often narrow, constrained by cultivated land. This is the regional description from that study, which covers Cabeceiras and other municipalities. Bank, water and riverbed are connected but offer different conditions. The gold-striped salamander depends on damp environments and reproduces in water; young freshwater mussels live buried in the riverbed and need oxygen. The diagram explores these general relationships without representing a place where all these species have been observed together.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Draws a bank, water and the bottom of the river.
  2. Opens each area of the scheme and chooses a relationship to represent in the drawing.
  3. Use arrow keys to connect environments; a species may depend on more than one zone.

An activity with paper and pencil, from the scheme. It is not necessary to enter the water or collect organisms.

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Sources of this proposal

My findings

An idea, a drawing or a question to go on.

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