Help students practice being a good sport, handling disappointment, and playing cooperatively with others through this interactive sportsmanship social skills game!

Sportsmanship Social Skills Set 1 includes a board game, 64 scenario cards, sorting mats, and reflection activities to help children explore what good sportsmanship looks like when winning, losing, playing fairly, and participating in games.

Sportsmanship skills are important beyond organized sports! They come up during recess, classroom games, board games, video games, cooperative learning, and everyday interactions with peers. With digital and printable activities, this resource makes it easy to introduce and reinforce these skills in individual counseling, small groups, and classroom SEL lessons.

📦 What's Included:

🎲 Sportsmanship Board Game

• Game board with spinner, pawns, and dice.
• Interactive practice with sportsmanship skills during game play.
• Opportunities to discuss teamwork, cooperation, fairness, and handling disappointment.

🃏 64 Sportsmanship Scenario Cards

• 64 scenario cards in digital and printable formats.
• Situations for discussing good sportsmanship and responses to winning, losing, and competition.
• Practice recognizing helpful choices and exploring different ways to respond.

🔄 Good Sport & Poor Sport Sorting Mats

• Sorting mats for identifying examples of good and poor sportsmanship.
• Use with scenario cards to encourage discussion and reflection.
• Opportunities to consider alternative responses to challenging situations.

🎲 Reflection Question Dice

• Dice featuring questions for reflecting on sportsmanship.
• Use during or after games to encourage discussion and self-awareness.

🖼️ Visual Posters

• "I Can" learning statements poster.
• Playing a Game visual poster.
• Visual reminders for reinforcing sportsmanship skills.

📝 Teaching, Planning & Family Resources

• S.M.A.R.T. IEP and treatment plan objectives for easier goal writing.
• Data collection sheet for monitoring progress.
• Editable letter to families about sportsmanship.
• Suggested companion resources.
• Ideas to extend and practice the concepts.
• Color and black-and-white resource versions.

🎒 Quick Details: Elementary students | 🃏 64 scenario cards | 🎲 Board game with spinner, pawns + dice | 🔄 Good Sport/Poor Sport sorting mats | 🎲 Reflection question dice | 🖼️ Visual posters | 📝 IEP goals + data sheet | 💻 Digital + print

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🏆 Sportsmanship Sets 1–3

• Combines 64 scenario cards, 24 discussion cards, 43 worksheets and coloring pages, two board games, an 8-page social story, and a 6-page Good Sport flipbook.
• Provides activities for introducing, practicing, and reinforcing sportsmanship skills across elementary grade levels.

🌟 Social Skills Treasury Growing Bundle Curriculum

• Includes a growing collection of social skills activity sets covering sportsmanship, self-control, empathy, perspective-taking, flexible thinking, and more.
• Features digital and printable games, social stories, worksheets, and discussion activities.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Good sportsmanship and playing fairly

✔️ Winning and losing graciously

✔️ Handling disappointment and frustration

✔️ Teamwork and cooperation

✔️ Following game agreements and taking turns

✔️ Emotional regulation during competitive activities

✔️ Respectful communication and positive peer interactions

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Use the 64 scenario cards to explore sportsmanship choices during individual counseling sessions.
• Play the board game during social skills groups or Lunch Bunch sessions.
• Use the Good Sport and Poor Sport sorting mats to discuss different responses to winning and losing.
• Incorporate the reflection question dice into games and group discussions.
• Display the visual posters to reinforce skills before classroom games or recess.
• Use the scenarios to prepare students for Field Day, cooperative games, or other competitive activities.
• Use the included IEP objectives, data collection sheet, and editable family letter to support consistent instruction and progress monitoring.

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

Perfect for school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, child therapists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, special education teachers, classroom teachers, and homeschool educators working with students.

This resource is especially useful for professionals supporting students with sportsmanship, cooperation, handling disappointment, emotional regulation, and positive peer interactions.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ Digital Google Slides activities.

✔️ Printable PDF activities.

✔️ PowerPoint file.

✔️ Color and black-and-white resource versions.

✔️ Board game, scenario cards, sorting mats, reflection dice, visual posters, and planning resources.

This is a digital download provided as a ZIP file containing PDF, Google Slides, and PowerPoint resources. You will need compatible software to open the included files. No physical materials will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

Learning good sportsmanship includes recognizing that winning, losing, and competitive situations can bring up big feelings. Students can practice respectful ways to respond while also learning that disappointment and frustration are valid emotions.

Students can participate through discussion, pointing, sorting, writing, or other communication methods that work for them.

This listing includes Sportsmanship Social Skills Set 1 only, not the complete three-set bundle.

Digital products are non-returnable.