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CHOICE · EXPERIMENTARY · TAKE

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.

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

PROPOSTA 1 DE 3 · 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 3 · Between rivers and mountains

Water that moves and water that is distributed

Saint Nicholas · hydraulic heritage inventoryed in 2008

The Peio made flour too

The Levada do Casal record notes water drawn from the Peio near Ponte do Gado, in Gondarém. The inventory describes five mills along the channel. It is a record of water-powered heritage, not confirmation that the mills operate or are publicly accessible today. The survey of 26 February 2008 identifies a channel in natural ground and two shared users: Casa do Casal and Quinta do Rapazinho, the latter with less irrigation time. It also describes the route near the Levada de Bouças and a boundary marker in Sendim placed to settle a disagreement over use. The channel carried water, but its use also depended on agreements between people.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Draw a channel and five mill symbols, such as inventory scheme of 2008.
  2. Add two cards to Casa do Casal and Quinta do Boyinho, without assigning watering durations that the reading does not provide.
  3. It distinguishes the physical elements of the channel of agreements between users.

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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Sources of this proposal

My findings

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

PROPOSTA 3 DE 3 · Life you do not always see

A Transforming Family

Occurrence mentioned in the environmental document

The Iberian wolf

The environmental assessment of the municipal master plan records a wolf pack in the area, based on ICNF information. This reflects Cabeceiras’s ecological importance; it is not a promise of a sighting. Learning about this presence does not require searching for the animals or revealing their shelters. The national platform links a shortage of wild prey with livestock consumption and conflict with pastoral communities. It presents protecting flocks and restoring natural prey as complementary parts of conservation. A pack is also a family that changes. The platform describes a breeding pair, offspring from different years and sometimes other related adults. The group defends a territory, but its composition changes through births, growth and dispersal. In the general cycle described for Portugal, pups are born in late April or May. During summer, rendezvous sites become centres of family activity; in autumn, the young begin accompanying adults as they travel and hunt. This is not an observation calendar for a particular pack. As they grow, some young wolves leave their original group to seek a territory, a mate or another pack. Others stay longer when enough food is available. A count at one moment therefore does not describe an unchanging family: social life follows the annual cycle and the opportunities offered by the landscape.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Draws a family group with adults and pups from the description.
  2. Add arrows to represent growth and output of young people from the group.
  3. Compare two moments of the drawing: what would change in a countdown?

General biology scheme; it does not represent the number of wolves in a local pack.

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Sources of this proposal

My findings

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

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