Level 2 Spatial Awareness

This is an introduction to Spatial Awareness for teenagers and adults with special educational needs. It is a full course and includes student worksheets and teaching slides.

The resource is intended to introduce students to the concept of spatial awareness, including:

• Spatial awareness vocabulary
• Movement of objects and body
• Mapwork skills

These worksheets are designed to cover the following learning outcomes:

1. Use appropriate vocabulary to describe direction, e.g. clockwise, anti-clockwise, horizontal, vertical
2. Use a simple map to find a given location
3. Draw a simple map to give directions
4. Calculate the distance between two places on a map
5. Use the body or body parts to move in a given direction
6. Move a range of objects in given directions

Topics include:

• Shapes
• Size
• Features of spatial awareness
• Relations
• Perspective
• Visual perception
• Movement in everyday life
• Personal space
• Moving in a crowd
• Body language
• Map vocabulary
• Direction
• Compass points
• Map scales, keys and symbols
• Reading and drawing maps

Can this resource be used online?
This resource is a digital resource. If you have purchased this resource and would like to use it for online teaching, you have permission to do so. A fillable and printable version is included. Students can type in their answers online, or worksheets can be printed. Teachers can also use them for whole-class teaching using a projector or interactive whiteboard.

What is included?
All components are available in the zipped folder, i.e. student worksheets and teaching slides.
Student Worksheets: 161 Pages
Teaching Slides: 71
Optical Illusion Slides: 21