Materials:
Fundamental Needs Charts
We can use these charts in the classroom to study any group of people. The fundamental needs are central to our study of human beings. These charts are crucial to that study. Once human beings have met their physical and material needs then may focus on their material and spiritual territory. The material territory means the economy that a civilization has developed. Spiritual is the culture and customs of that territory. We bring in the fundamental needs anytime we talk about human beings.
We know they need to have their material needs met simply stay alive humans need food to keep the body alive, they need shelter, clothing, to protect them from the elements. We still …show more content…
We want the child to be aware that the earth had to be created then prepared and it took a long time before humans could arrive. The children can see this in the Black Strip. We use impressionistic timelines and charts to make the children aware of these ideas. We talk about the how the earth had to be furnished with plants, animals, a plan came into to place, by some sort of law and order, a guiding force that is at the center of this cosmic development. What was behind the preparing the earth we tell those stories before getting to the Coming of Human Beings. Human beings could not arrive until the environment was ready to sustain them.Human beings have lived in environments around the world. These environments differ from one another and that is how different cultures and customs have developed. Humans have found different things in their particular environments. We all need to food, water, clothing, housing and transportation. Humans have just met those needs in different …show more content…
The food that they ate, would be be the things that they found right around them, the first shelters probably caves, the first transportation, was what they came with. Their feet and legs. As other human beings came together and formed societies we see different groups of people finding different solutions. Solutions were possible when they were working together. One way of presenting history to the children is to take one of the material needs and see where it has led. Food is a great need to start with since we all like food. It is a fun and interesting way to study these ideas, there are many early examples.
The Basque people sailing across the Northern Atlantic were fishing for cod off the eastern shores of Canada. There is a book titled: Cod. The Basque people sailed across the ocean and fished for cod, but did not share with other people where they found it. Explorations like this can develop interest in the