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...

Learners discover how to play sports fairly by role playing sports scenarios in class.  In this sportsmanship instructional activity, students participate in a charades activity in which they act out a random event while the class...

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...

For 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 activity, 1st graders will learn the Calming-Down Steps that will help them use when they are angry.

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...

This Second Step lesson resource is for kindergarten parents. This resource accompanies Lesson 17: Managing Disappointment.

In this lesson from Second Step, students will learn how to handle their disappointment constructively.

Kelly's pain over past sexual abuse causes her to behave in a way that lands her in a secure facility, where she is tormented by other inmates. Eventually she begins to ask for the help she needs in order to heal. This teacher's guide...