Guidance Lesson: What Size is Your Personal Bubble?
What Size is your Personal Bubble? By: Emily Clary Topic: Social Skills Grade level: The following guideline outlines a guidance lesson catered to a high functioning 7th grade special education class. Rationale and clear purpose for the unit or lesson: This is a guidance lesson aimed at helping seventh grade special education students gain awareness about their own need(s) for personal space, while obtaining skills to appropriately communicate/interact with others with respect for their personal space needs within the middle school setting. I have provided a variety of activities throughout the lesson in order to activate all student strengths; kinesthetically, visually and verbally while providing structured independence and interactive elements to increase student engagement. As a result of this lesson, students will understand what a personal bubble is, that they have a right to have their personal bubble respe...