Situational Awareness is an important social skill for elementary students to acquire. With Everyday Speech’s Social Chameleon lesson, students can learn to successfully assess their surroundings, blend in, and adapt to any situation. To teach your next elementary lesson on situational awareness make sure to download this free situational awareness PDF for elementary students!
Teaching Situational Awareness to Elementary Students
Situational awareness helps students grow awareness of their surroundings, improve their social skills, and be safe! At Everyday Speech, one of the ways we teach situational awareness to elementary students is through learning to be a “Social Chameleon”. This skill = helps students tune into their environment and adjust and adapt to any social situation.
Lesson Plan – Using Your Free Situational Awareness PDF
1. Teach the Concept of “Being a Social Chameleon”
Start by teaching your elementary students to adapt to new places and situations by being Social Chameleons! A Social Chameleon changes their behavior and actions to match a situation, person, or group of people. They notice how others are acting and then match them in order to blend in! In order to do this, we need to be able to tune in to our surroundings, read people’s moods to see how others might be feeling, and adjust our actions to fit the time and place.
2. Practice Being a Social Chameleon
Have your elementary student practice being a social chameleon with a few role-play scenarios. For example, a student may need to practice being a Social Chameleon by quieting their voice if they enter their classroom of peers reading silently. Another example is noticing when something serious is happening around them and they then match their mood and behavior to the energy around them in order to be respectful.
3. Use Our Free Situational Awareness PDF
Our free situational awareness PDF is our Social Chameleon Goal Poster! Download, print, and post this visual tool in your learning environment, or send it home with your students to utilize when practicing situational awareness!
Sample Video:
If you didn’t know, we offer a free 30-day trial where you can use our thousands of video lessons & Social-Emotional Learning materials like worksheets and web games!
