Saturday, February 21, 2009

Have You Seen My Cat? (Eric Carle) A World-Wide Journey




Have you ever wondered how long it took the little boy in the story, "Have You Seen My Cat?" to find his cat? Well, we did! We pretended that the boy started his journey and ended it in Jacksonville, Florida. He started his journey at the Jacksonville Zoo where he only found a lion and ended right back where he started searching. In the meantime, he found a Bobcat in Mexico, a Puma, Jaguar, and Panther in South America, a Cheetah in Africa, a Tiger in India, and a Persian Cat in Persia (modern day Iran). Below is a sample of the map that we used to follow his journey.

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3 comments:

Marie Rush said...

This is an awesome and relevant use of tech in the classroom!

Erica Hartman said...

I love how you used google maps for this book. This is one of my daughter's favorite books. I am going to share this with some teachers in my district.

annelisewojo said...

What a great way to use Google Maps with young learners.