Maslow’s Human Needs - Exercise #2

Human Needs Activity 2: Exercise #2

Working in groups, discuss and answer the following questions:

1.     Does every human being have the right to reach the top of the Maslow pyramid?

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2.     Does every human being have the capability of reaching that level?

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3.     What are the opportunities are needed to get to the higher level?

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4.     What are the obstacles could stand in the way of reaching these levels?

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5.     What could you do to help others to reach the higher levels?

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Maslow’s Human Needs Pyramid - exercise #1

Human Needs Activity 1:

List the levels and specific Maslow’s human needs required by the following cases

Case	Level	Specific needs at each level
A child in a hospital
A physically disabled person
A lonely poor old lady in Sri Lanka
A shy rich widow who has a loving family and friends but has not achieved much in life
A family trapped underground because of a bomb shell
An orphaned child who was forced to work to make a living
Physically and mentally abused person
A father who lost his job and has a family to support

2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form

2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form

    Follow this template to organize the primary details about your volunteer project:

1.    Title of plan –

2.    Names of group participants:

 

3.    Organization (name) and contact person (supervisor + email):  

4.    Purpose / what do you wish to accomplish?

Ex: this project will help the students of Al Hosan School to develop their IT skills 

5.    Time/ schedule: students will volunteer for how many hours / week? Days?   

6.    To be successful what need to be done?

Ex: In the end, students must be able to type 20wpm English typing.  

 

7.    What are the Benefits to the participants? (Both volunteers and recipients)

  

LSH 2903 – Useful Links

LSH 2903 – Useful Links

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs

http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

http://www.businessballs.com/maslow.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01bxkcr

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights

http://www.hrea.org/index.php?base_id=104&language_id=1&erc_doc_id=5211&category_id=24&category_type=3&group=

http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/resources/plain.asp

Volunteering & Charity

http://www.takatof.ae  OR    

http://www.takatof.ae/en/enroll-now/opportunities/opportunity-detail?id=1859

http://www.volunteerinuae.com/

http://www.ifrc.org/en/what-we-do/where-we-work/middle-east-and-north-africa/red-crescent-society-of-the-united-arab-emirates/ 

http://rcuae.ae/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteering

http://www.gulf4good.org/en

Calendar - Community Service Learning - LSH 2903 Spring 2014

Community Service Learning - LSH 2903  Spring 2014

Week #	Date Week beginning	Suggested reading material / topics	Exercises	Actions / Assessments
1	Feb 16	Course Introduction - administration Create Blogger.blogspot.com site and send to instructor Open: YouTube and Flickr accounts	Create Blogs - all class work to be uploaded in the class Research: One local OR international org. involved community support	Introduce community service                              and its current role in the UAE. Explore different types of community organizations the role they play Recognize and distinguish culture vs. personality issues.
2	Feb 23	Human Needs and Motivations - Maslov
3	March 2	Human Rights and Civic Responsibilities – Declaration of Human Rights/ UN
4	March 9	From Charity to Empowerment (Part 1) – Volunteering in the UAE -Some definitions	Group Presentation on organization research	*Present your group research in class
5	March 16	The importance of planning your Project Choosing/ organizing a Service Project	Draft Project plans due
6	March 23	Introducing the Reflection Journal and Starting the Project Wks 9-14		*Quiz on previous exercises / Assessments covering work to date (15%) - Wks 1-6
7	March 30	Spring Break
8	April 6	Spring Break
9	April 13	Volunteer Project begins – Wks 9-14		Volunteer Project plan– (10%) Reflection #1
10	April 20
11	April 27	Monitoring on/off-campus activities:    Student groups will be monitored on a weekly basis while completing their projects		Keep & submit a weekly log of your project activities (30%)
12	May 4
13	May 11
14	May 18			Reflection Report about the success of your project (15%)
15	May 25	27th May – Israa and Meiraj		Final Group Presentations based on Projects (20%)
16	June 1			Blog/e-Portfolio Submission of all your assessed work (10%)