Personal Space – It’s Outta This World!

This is the ultimate engaging poster and worksheet set created to help teachers assist their students in understanding the concept of personal space. The poster looks super cute, and the matching worksheets will help you facilitate meaningful discussions with your students. They will help support your social and emotional lesson planning. The poster provides students with questions they can ask themselves to ensure they aren’t a ‘personal space invader’ here are the questions:

• Do they look worried or confused?
• Do they look mad, sad, or nervous?
• Did they look down or away?
• Did they turn away from you?
• Did they have their arms crossed?
• Did they move away from you?

The accompanying worksheets provide students with scenarios and ask them to decide if the person in the example is a personal space invader. Providing real-life examples allows students the opportunity to fully engage and understand the concept.

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding 

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your social emotional lessons.

In addition to individual student work time, use this poster and accompanying worksheet to enhance learning through small groups, whole class lessons or remote learning assignments.

If you have a mixture of above and below-level learners, check out these suggestions for keeping students on track with the concepts:

🆘 Support Struggling Students

For students who need additional support, consider using this personal space social story.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

If there are students in need of a challenge, have students role-play some of the scenarios on the worksheets.

Easily Prepare This Empathy Poster and Worksheet for Your Students

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or editable Google Slides version of this resource.

Print the poster on thick card for added durability and longevity.

This resource was created by Lisamarie Del Valle, a teacher in Florida and a Teach Starter Collaborator.