Thought Co.: Proxemics: Help Children Understand Personal Space

I really like this activity. Learners with special needs play a stoplight game to practice giving and responding to the need for personal space. Each child is given a green light and red light card, when you say, "Go" they walk around...

Pre-schoolers gain a better understanding of personal space by playing this modified version of musical chairs. Played like musical chairs, students circle around a ring of hula hoops as music plays. When the music stops everyone needs...

Students role-play taking care of each other. In this cancer lesson plan, students examine how to help someone who is sick. Students discover that cancer is not contagious. Working in small groups, students role-play how to take care of...

Here is some advice to help children feel comfortable asking an adult for help.

Students experience dance and movement. In this kinesthetic activity, students practice movement of their limbs and joints. They use a hula hoop to identify personal space.

Students practice locomotor and axial movements. In this body awareness lesson plan, students discover freeze movement, axial movements, and locomotor movements. Students practice the movements as they maintain personal space.

Students use their bodies in daily activities, by promoting a regular routine of using large and small motor skills, personal space, and boundary awareness. They move a scarf to the rhythm of the different kinds of music the teacher...

Young athletes practice various locomotor movements. They use locomotor skills as directed by the teacher to move between "Olympic rings" (hula hoops). Students participate in a discussion about Olympic events prior to playing the game.