In addition to shelter, what are other basic human needs?
Make a list on the board. You may want to discuss Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs with your students. (For more information about this, please visit http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/regsys/maslow.html.) Now that you and your students have looked at various types of shelters, we are going to move onto another major issue facing people in developing nations—water and sanitation. • Ask your students what the role of water is in their daily lives. How do they obtain water? What do they use it for? • Ask your students to imagine carrying, from a source miles away, all the water they drink, bathe in, and wash their hands with in one day. Have your students consult a map. What would their source for water be? How far is it from their house? Is the water clean? How long would it take to walk back and forth from this site? Have them research which reservoir supplies water to their city or neighborhood. Where does the water come from? Many people around the world lack access to clean wa
