Route in Nature
“Finding rural rails in Guarda”
Script
Group name:_________________________________________________
This route shows you different characteristics of the natural and rural landscape of the region.
You have to follow the indications: you may use the attached map.
Message 1: Near the Boavista café starts your route to Ramalhosa. You have to collect plants,
flowers and stones. If you can take some pictures.
Follow towards the north. Before the first curve search.....
Message 2: Find the hive and mark on the map! Take a picture and tell us the name given to a
group of bees.
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Keep walking
Message 3: Turning left there is a house in ruins. The shape of the house looks like a
geometric solid.
What is the geometric solid?
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These are the dimensions of the house, 10mx9m. The height is two times Muhammed CEVAT
OTAY, which will be the total volume?
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Message 4: Identify the trees that you can find within 100 meters and name the correspondant
fruits.
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Message 5: Go on. Turn left observe and characterize the landscape. Identify the natural and
built elements.
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Message 6: Go on a few meters. Advance and look at the trees on your left. Identify them as
well as their fruits.
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RAMALHOSA
Message 7: The first construction that appears though it’s in ruins, has a rich gate.
In meters establish a possible height of the columns? Discuss with your group of colleagues
possible ways of doing this calculation.
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Message 8: You are now in Ramalhosa . Look at the traditional portuguese houses and present
the main characteristics.
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Message 9 – Go south, always through the road, in a few meters on the right, look for a place
where women usually wash clothes. Be careful with the tank. Imagine the following situation:
There is a rope with seven different types of clothes/shoes. Two shorts, three t-shirts and two
pairs of tennis. How many different ways could a person dress?
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Follow to North by the Fonte street.
Message 10: You will see a pond with water. You have two eggs there. What is the unboiled
egg. A or B?
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Identify other materials that float in water.
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Follow the route.
Message 11: You will see a "stone gate". Here you have a challenge. Write a text with the
acrostic
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Message 12: Keep walking, down, after the curve to your left, you will find a roman road. It’s
very ancient. Move along, after you walked more or less fifty meters, stop. Try to solve the
following problem:
Torben Olsen decided to go shopping in Odense. He buys 3 packages of
CD’s spending in total 33€, each package has 20 CD’s. Knowing that he
used 1/2 of one
package, 1/4 of the other and 1/5 of the last, how many CD’s he used? He sold the remaining to
Vida Vilkiene, saying that he will do her a nice price!! He sold the remaining CD’s for 22,50€…
can we call Torben Olsen a good friend ?
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Message 13: Follow to the end of the Roman road. Find a tree cork from which we extract cork.
Mention three uses of cork.
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Advance to the crossroads to Aldeia Viçosa. Search the entrance to the river beach Aldeia
Viçosa. Look for this board.
Message 14: The family IES comes to Aldeia Viçosa on foot and bus to rest a little near the
water. If all members of the family should pay the entrance in the beach, how much do they
spend?
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Congratulations! You finished the route.
Arrival time _______________________________!