The increasing number of unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, red cards, and ejections from games points out the need for activities that help young people recognize behaviors that exemplify good sportsmanship. For homework, class members...

Students discover how to play sports fairly by role playing sports scenarios in class.  For this sportsmanship lesson, students participate in a charades activity in which they act out a random event while the class decides if this...

Students complete activities regarding good sportsmanship. For this sportsmanship lesson, students discuss winning, losing, and cheating. They participate in Sportsmanship scenarios and discuss what they would do in each situation. 

Incorporate writing into your physical education class. In groups, learners unscramble a list of words related to exercise and use them in their journal writings. Using their name, they write one word related to physical activity that...

What happens when you feel angry? Do you throw things? Yell? Stomp your feet? Anger is an emotion that we all feel, but we deal with it in different ways. If you would like some ideas on ways to handle your anger, or how to tell if...

Often times our first reaction when we're angry is to become physically aggressive. This site provides strategies for channeling one's anger into productive venues.

In this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn how to calm down their anger.

Molly Bang's book, When Sophie Get's Angry-Really, Really Angry, provides students with positive ways of dealing with anger. When students explore their own methods of dealing with anger and then talk and write about new ways of...

In this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn the Calming-Down Steps that will help them use when they are angry.

Strategies are provided that will help students deal with upsetting times in their lives.

Learn how to work out conflicts with others "Fairly and peacefully." This website includes simple tips to help you resolve problems, control your anger. Discuss conflict resolution with other students and your parents by using the...

Learn how to handle situations and problems the right way without getting out of control, overly mad, or even violent. This sight teaches you the "Bam" plan, or tips "to keep your anger from boiling over".

A guide to integrating conflict resolution education into youth arts programs. This program was created to give after school youth teachers tools to help youth solve disputes they see on a daily basis.

A guide to integrating conflict resolution education into youth arts programs. This program was created to give after school youth teachers tools to help youth solve disputes they see on a daily basis. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]

Learn how to handle situations and problems the right way without getting out of control, or even violent. Tips are given about how to control anger. In Spanish.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart describing different strategies for dealing with anger. Provides ideas for discussions on how we deal with anger and what we can do to control it.

Dealing with divorce means ultimately accepting new changes that will affect almost all aspects of a child's life. Coping with these changes can be easier if the child understands how to deal with their emotions of frustration,...

This site is dedicated to educating individuals how to help adolescents and children cope with difficult situations involving feelings of depression. These articles offer good advice for helping children in need.

Getting over the loss of someone close to you if a difficult process. This site provides resources for adolescents who have recently experienced such a loss and helps to lead them through this process in the healthiest manner possible.

Explains what forgiveness is and the benefits it offers. Includes anecdotal stories of forgiveness and reconciliation, strategies for forgiving others, and articles.

Feeling sad is something that everyone has to deal with. Some people feel sad more often than others, some people feel it more intensely than others. There are ways to get over sadness, but it is a natural feeling that you cannot escape...

By using stories and videos showing familiar PBS KIDS characters working through their own mad feelings, you can provide strategies that children can build on as they grow and learn and develop the self-control needed to handle...

Through the exercises presented at this website, students with "Learn that other kids experience the same kids of emotions as they do," "That it's important to understand what we're feeling," and "That we can often benefit by discussing...

Know that it is normal to experience different emotions and learn positive ways to deal with your emotions. This website, which is meant to accompany a video on emotions and good character, provides questions for discussion, activity...