8th Grade Character Education Games

These community-building activities and games are perfect for the first weeks of school! Students will use collaboration and teamwork which will build a positive learning community in your classroom. These activities are not just designed to be used only the first week of school but give the perfect opportunity to build friendships, and teamwork, and create a positive class culture. They could also be used for team building, recess, morning meetings, or SEL.

Help your students learn to collaborate. communicate, trust, and show mutual respect to others to be able to work well with others and be able to create a cohesive group of individuals working together for a common goal.

This team-building set comes with general objectives. Each activity comes with instructions you can modify. It also comes with processing questions to facilitate learning from the activities that you can discuss with your students.

3 Icebreakers

6 Team building Activities (Included are materials needed, instructions, and processing questions to facilitate learning from the activities)

Are you looking for a fun activity to help build collaboration skills while having some FUN? Need a Fun Friday activity as your students lose their engagement through the week? Need an activity with very little prep? Looking for something digital? Then look no further!

Mystery At The Theme Park is a video based Escape Room activity that is played with a YouTube Video (approximately 20 minutes) and answers are submitted on a Google Form. Students will have to watch the video, listen to the story, and look at pictures to find clues to escape from the Theme Park in time. There are many different ways that you could play this game whether it is as a full class and you try to beat the clock, or in small groups where students can work together to solve the puzzles! The links are in the PDF that you will get when you download this resources and all instructions to set up will be there.

The Prep to play this Escape Room is minimal-all you need is the video link and a copy of the Google Form for each group. I played this game with my Grade 6/7 class online and they LOVED it. I had students who were usually pretty quiet online take over and shine!

So...will you make it out in time?

This packet contains SIX lessons and activities to teach about the Confiteor Prayer from the Catholic Mass ⛪ Liturgy. Students will interact with the prayer to learn the words as well as the meaning behind the prayer. They will think about the purpose of the prayer, and build their religion vocabulary.

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· Page 3: Instructions

· Page 4: Full Prayer--This can be used as an answer key, and also as a puzzle. It can be cut into strips or smaller pieces for students to put together while thinking through the prayer.

· Pages 5-6: Understanding the prayer --this worksheet requires students to write the meaning of each line of the prayer. This will help students slow down and think about the meaning behind the words.

· Page 7: Fill-in-the-blanks--Students can scaffold their practice with the prayer by filling in the blanks on this worksheet.

· Page 8-13: Prayer Mazes --Students follow the words of the prayer through the puzzle. This works well laminated and placed in a station for students to recite the prayer repeatedly while traveling through the maze. There are two levels for the maze so it is easy to differentiate. There are also 2 versions of answer keys for the puzzles so students can work at their own challenge level.

· Pages 14-15: Handwriting--Students can trace the prayer to practice handwriting and spelling. This is available in print or cursive.

· Pages 16-18: Vocabulary--There are three ability levels for the vocabulary sheets. Students can fill out the blank sheet with a definition, example, and non-example. Or, students can receive a worksheet that is partially filled out or completely filled out. _______________________________

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Have fun teaching Self-Awareness through learning about communication styles: passive, aggressive, assertive, & passive-aggressive!

This SEL BINGO game was designed to promote social skills in an engaging and interactive way. This product is a valuable resource for students 3rd grade and above. It's both entertaining and educational.

"Communication Styles" Bingo is a go-to resource for classrooms, therapy sessions, or homeschoolers.

By incorporating key SEL principles, students learn the nuances of passive, aggressive, assertive, and passive-aggressive communication styles and gain a deeper understanding of how best to self-advocate.

Teachers and facilitators will find that this game will not only enhance their students' social skills but also promote a more positive classroom culture.

⭐️ Included are:

8 Unique BINGO cards with text and corresponding emoji

8 Unique BINGO cards with just colored text (lower print option)

12 Calling Cards with Passive statements/questions

12 Calling Cards with Assertive statements/questions

12 Calling Cards with Aggressive statements/questions

12 Calling Cards with Passive-Aggressive statements/questions

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Speak Up or Let it Go?

This or That?

Learning Communication Styles

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This SEL Communication Styles Activity Game Set is perfect for incorporating a lesson and game around the subject of how we come across in our oral communication.

Talk about tone, voice volume, and personal space, when teaching with these materials. There are no right or wrong answers here.

⭐️ Communication Styles BINGO: Have fun teaching Social and Self-Awareness through learning about communication styles: passive, aggressive, assertive, & passive-aggressive!

This is not just matching the calling cards! Students listen to the sentence or question and they decide if it's passive, assertive, aggressive, or passive-aggressive. Get them using their critical thinking skills!

⭐️ Communication Styles Self-Advocacy: Teach your students conflict resolution skills, self-advocacy & self-awareness through learning about the 4 basic communication styles:

1. Passive

2. Assertive

3. Aggressive

4. Passive-Aggressive

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