My Hometown Assignment:

Big Idea:
Identity
Essential Question:
How does geography affect your identity?

Introduction Videos:
● Living Things Change: Crash Course Kids (4:36)
● Can Wildlife Adapt to Climate Change? (4:46)

Vocabulary: Show your understanding by selecting a photo that matches each definition below.
Word Definition Picture
Vietnamese
translation

landforms A landform is a natural or artificial feature of the solid surface of the

Earth or other planetary body: rivers, river deltas, mountains, lakes,

natural The natural environment includes all living and non-living things
environment occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.

cultural Things that make up culture:

characteristics language, religion/beliefs, food, music, clothing

Depend To rely on a person or natural resources to help you

tùy theo
adapt to change to the conditions you live in… for example, hot,
phỏng theo cold, mountains, lowlands, dry, rainy

change To make something different than it’s original form. For

example, people have changed the delta by draining the
water so they could build houses, schools, and businesses.

Instructions
Complete the activities below to help you answer the Essential Question Question: Who Am I?
LOCATION

Name of your hometown:

DESCRIBE where your EXPLAIN why you think your hometown Insert 1 picture of your
hometown is located. was built there. hometown.

PLACE

LIST the names of 2 landforms in/near your hometown (example … Trường Giang River or The Rocky Mts)
1.
2.

IDENTIFY 2 specific cultural characteristics of your hometown (food, religion, language …):
1.
2.

DESCRIBE the natural environment of your home town (temperature, seasons, elevation):

IDENTIFY the population of your hometown.

Are you from a big city, a medium-sized city, a small city, or a rural area (nông thôn)? EXPLAIN why.

DESCRIBE what makes your town unique and different from other towns.

HUMAN INTERACTION with the ENVIRONMENT

IDENTIFY 3 ways people in your hometown DEPEND on the environment.

1.
 2.
3.

DESCRIBE how people in your hometown have ADAPTED to their environment.

EXPLAIN how people in your hometown have CHANGED their environment.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

EXPLAIN how geography (where you live) affects your identity: Who Am I? (Write in complete sentences)

ELA CONNECTION- Listen Slowly

DESCRIBE how geography affects Mai’s identity.

PREDICTION: Explain how spending time in Vietnam might influence and/or change her identity.

EXTENSION: Challenge Yourself! Have fun!

Do you really feel you have a strong understanding about the ideas you wrote about above?
If yes, CREATE a collage (cắt dán) below or on a blank piece of paper that shows your understanding of the
Essential Question: How does geography affect your identity, Who Am I? Have fun with this!

Ideas for your collage (cắt dán):

❖ pictures (hand drawn, printed, cut out of magazines)
❖ symbols
❖ colors
❖ your own ideas