{"id":2399,"date":"2022-10-26T23:27:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T23:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2022-10-26T23:27:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T23:27:35","slug":"geographic-misconceptions-about-the-location-of-continents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/visualizacao\/geographic-misconceptions-about-the-location-of-continents\/","title":{"rendered":"Geographic misconceptions about the location of continents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\" style=\"min-height:71px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"271\" height=\"84\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2274\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/files\/2021\/12\/flowingData.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/1e7f582d478a4b99bd0c70fffeac4c8b\">clique para seguir o link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-amber-color has-text-color\">Uma est\u00f3ria sobre a geografia com boas anima\u00e7\u00f5es<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Misconceptions often seem to have a life of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If learned early on, a foundationally incorrect view of the world can perpetuate, as students naturally build knowledge in light of a past, incorrect, understanding. Something as basic as our assumptions about the relative locations of Earth&#8217;s continents is an interesting, and actually sort of fun, example of how we can get things wrong right off the bat. Ultimately, everything is learned, but some curious geographic errors tend to persist more than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what are some tantalizing locational mistakes that seemingly come pre-installed in American students\u2019 minds that geography teachers wrestle to overcome?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So glad you asked! Here is a cherry-picked handful of examples that we\u2019ll dive into\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The northiness of Africa<\/li><li>The northiness of Europe<\/li><li>The eastiness of South America<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uma est\u00f3ria sobre a geografia com boas anima\u00e7\u00f5es Misconceptions often seem to have a life of their own. If learned early on, a foundationally incorrect view of the world can perpetuate, as students naturally build knowledge in light of a past, incorrect, understanding. Something as basic as our assumptions about the relative locations of Earth&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102,80],"tags":[4226,81],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infogramas-dashboards","category-visualizacao","tag-geografia","tag-mapas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}