8th Grade Social Emotional Learning Games

This comprehensive resource pack provides 20 engaging role-play scenarios to help students develop essential negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

What's Included:

• 20 Role-Play Scenario Cards: A variety of scenarios to stimulate discussion and practice negotiation skills.
• Exit Ticket: To assess student learning and reflection.
• Reflection Worksheet: To encourage self-assessment and metacognition.
• Activity Guide: Detailed instructions on how to implement the role-play scenarios.
• Negotiation Guide: A comprehensive guide to negotiation principles and strategies.

Benefits of Using This Resource:

• Engaging Learning: Role-play scenarios bring learning to life and make it more memorable.
• Skill Development: Students develop essential social-emotional skills, such as communication, empathy, and problem-solving.
• Real-World Application: Scenarios are designed to reflect real-life situations, preparing students for future challenges.
• Collaborative Learning: Students work together to find solutions, fostering teamwork and cooperation.
• Self-Reflection: The reflection worksheet encourages students to analyze their performance and identify areas for improvement.

This comprehensive resource pack provides 20 engaging role-play scenarios to help students develop the skills to resist peer pressure and make informed decisions. By stepping into different roles and navigating challenging situations, students will learn to:

• Identify peer pressure tactics
• Develop assertiveness skills
• Build self-esteem and confidence
• Make informed decisions
• Practice effective communication

What's Included:

• 20 Role-Play Scenario Cards: A variety of scenarios to stimulate discussion and practice decision-making skills.
• Exit Ticket: To assess student learning and reflection.
• Reflection Worksheet: To encourage self-assessment and metacognition.
• Activity Guide: Detailed instructions on how to implement the role-play scenarios.
• Peer Pressure Guide: A comprehensive guide to understanding and resisting peer pressure.

Benefits of Using This Resource:

• Engaging Learning: Role-play scenarios bring learning to life and make it memorable.
• Skill Development: Students develop essential social-emotional skills, such as assertiveness, decision-making, and self-esteem.
• Real-World Relevance: Scenarios are designed to reflect real-life situations, preparing students for challenges they may face.
• Collaborative Learning: Students work together to find solutions and support each other.
• Self-Reflection: The reflection worksheet encourages students to analyze their performance and identify areas for improvement.

By using this resource, you can equip your students with the tools they need to navigate peer pressure situations with confidence and make healthy choices.

Play these SEL games again and again and your students will aways have fun while improving their social skills!

1. This or That?!

Group perspective taking activity targets social awareness, finding common interests, and conversation skills.

Kids to have fun learning about others and sharing about themselves. Students have to think like their peers in order to try to guess what their peers would choose.

This Social Emotional resource contains:

• an instruction sheet to plan your lesson
• 5 sheets of 12 cards with only words (60 pairs total)
• 1 sheet of 12 cards with only pictures
• 1 sheet of 12 cards with the same pictures and written text underneath
• one blank grid so you can write your own or have your students make their own!

2. Match My Mood:

With 120 Scenario cards and 36 Mood Descriptors, you can play this SEL card game over and over again and it will always be new!

Increase your students' social skills with this card game! It makes it fun for kids to take the view point of their peers as they think critically about which circumstances would provoke certain feelings.

By matching scenarios with appropriate moods and feelings, children develop empathy and learn to communicate and express their own emotions effectively. The cards have a mix of silly and relevant social scenarios that are perfect prompts for sharing feelings and experiences.

You will not run out of game play time with so many cards!!

• Instructions for game play
• 36 different adjective emotion cards (e.g. "Amazing" "Surprising" "Absurd")
• 120 different social scenarios that provide a range of emotions. (e.g. "Your sister broke your lego creation that took you 3 days to build." or "Your dog suddenly got up and started walking on his two back legs."

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"Size of the Problem Bingo" helps students of all abilities learn to assess problems and match their reactions to the appropriate level, improving emotional regulation and social interactions.

Great for

• Special Educators
• Speech Therapists
• School Counselors
• Behaviorists

Included in the resource:

• 10 Color BINGO Cards (8.5x11in)
• 10 Black and White BINGO Cards (8.5x11in)
• 1 Color "Problem Size Scale"
• 1 Black and White "Problem Size Scale"
• 1 "What Determines the Size of the Problem" Guide
• 1 "What Determines the Reaction" Guide
• 60 Problem Calling Cards

How to Play!

1. Students receive bingo cards featuring different scenarios. As scenarios are called out, students identify the size of the problem and mark the appropriate square, encouraging discussion on why a particular reaction is suitable.
2. Use the game as a springboard for group discussions about problem-solving strategies and emotional responses, helping students generalize these skills to real-life situations.

Kids choose one emotion and one action and have to act out the action with the expression of the emotion.

Targeted Skills Include:

• Nonverbal communication: interpreting body language, facial expressions and gestures.
• Social Awareness: Observation skills and critical thinking
• Self-Awareness: Students have to be aware of how their actions are being interpreted
• Team Building: Play in teams for as a whole class this game is funny and non-competitive

Lots of replay value!

Easy to differentiate for diverse learners!

This resource includes:

• 28 emotions in text form
• 42 actions in text form
• 1 blank template to write your own
• 24 emotions in picture + text form
• 48 actions in picture + text form

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Group perspective taking activity targets social awareness, finding common interests, and conversation skills.

Kids to have fun learning about others and sharing about themselves. Students have to think like their peers in order to try to guess what their peers would choose.

This Social Emotional resource contains:

• an instruction sheet to plan your lesson
• 5 sheets of 12 cards with only words (60 pairs total)
• 1 sheet of 12 cards with only pictures
• 1 sheet of 12 cards with the same pictures and written text underneath
• one blank grid so you can write your own or have your students make their own!

Just cut along the perforated lines and fold along the solid lines. Then turn the cards face down. Kids take turns picking a card and reading the 2 choices. Then the rest of the group has to try to guess what that player would choose. (Not what they would choose!). The player then tells the group their preference.

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Reaction BINGO is a fun and interactive Social Emotional Learning game that helps elementary to middle school kids develop social flexibility and self-control as well have open discussions by matching different social scenarios with reactions.

The reactions on the BINGO cards are a mix of silly and appropriate. The game is designed to get kids laughing! This will get them to relax and open up.

There are no right or wrong answers here! Let your students discuss why they chose the reactions they did.

Included are:

8 BINGO Cards with different reactions color header

8 (of the same) BINGO Cards with black and white header

36 Social Scenarios with color background

36 (of the same) Social Scenarios in black and white

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Teach your students conflict resolution skills & self-awareness through learning about the 4 basic communication styles:

1. Passive
2. Assertive
3. Aggressive
4. Passive-Aggressive

Perfect for your Social Skills Group, School Counseling Group, or Speech Therapy Session!

Students take turns reading scenarios aloud and then randomly picking a response from those that are scattered on the table. They read the response aloud and think about which communication style it represents and puts the response strip under which communication style they think it corresponds to.

This is an interactive way (no writing required!) to get your students to reflect on the different ways to respond to tricky situations that often come up. Help them see how nuance in tone, word choice, and body language all affect how they are perceived by others and help them understand what others are trying to communicate to them.

Included are:

• 40 different social scenarios that are typical for students
• 20 potentially passive responses
• 20 potentially assertive responses
• 20 potentially aggressive responses
• 20 potentially passive-aggressive responses
• 1 page of questions to ask your students to promote group discussion
• 1 page of color reference guide explaining the communication styles
• 1 page black and white reference guide explaining communication styles
• 1 page for categorizing the responses
• Large print headers of the 4 communication styles for which the students can use to categorize the responses.

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This bundle of two popular Kindness & Mindfulness Mandala flipbooks will be a great addition to your classroom to celebrate respect and encourage students to be mindful. Students will love the opportunity to color them in, and assemble this DIY interactive flipbook.

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Kindness Flipbook

Looking for a fun activity that promotes kindness and respect in your classroom? Check out this printable activity that is just perfect for World Kindness Day or the Week of Respect. This flip book includes 4 mini-design pages featuring short and creative activities on the following topics:

1. Choose Kindness

2. Be Kind to Yourself

3. #BeKind

4. Spread Kindness

Mindful Mandalas Flipbook

Looking for a fun activity that promotes mindfulness and positivity in your classroom? Check out this printable activity that is just perfect for SEL or the Week of Respect. This flip book includes 4 mini-design pages featuring mandalas that students can color in as they reflect on the following mantras:

1. Be Mindful

2. Be Present

3. Be Calm

4. Be Grateful

Have students create these flip books, then let them keep it in their folders so they can use it after testing or whenever they finish work early. Purchase once, and this product can be used year after year! Pull this sheet out as students return from break for an easy and engaging activity.

This resource requires NO PREP - simply print and go! These flip books can be printed in black and white or on color paper, but it only requires 1 sheet for the entire flip book!

Simply cut, glue or staple the flaps and your students have an amazing activity that they can color and design at their fingertips.

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Looking for a fun activity that promotes kindness and respect in your classroom? Check out this printable Kindness Flipbook that is just perfect for World Kindness Day or the Week of Respect. This flip book includes 4 mini-design pages featuring short and creative activities on the following topics:

1. Choose Kindness

2. Be Kind to Yourself

3. #BeKind

4. Spread Kindness

Have students create this flip book, then let them keep it in their folders so they can use it after testing or whenever they finish work early. Purchase once, and this product can be used year after year! Pull this sheet out as students return from break for an easy and engaging activity.

This resource requires NO PREP - simply print and go! This flip book can be printed in black and white or on color paper, but it only requires 1 sheet for the entire flip book!

Simply cut, glue or staple the flaps and your students have an amazing activity that they can color and design at their fingertips.

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Play this custom Back to School Classmate BINGO Game | Get to Know You Icebreaker SEL Activity all year round to foster social emotional learning skills, social inferencing, interpersonal communication, and classmate friendships and connections.

The game clues are personalized to your students to help your students connect and learn about each other . Play this Back to School Classmate BINGO Game | Get to Know You Icebreaker SEL Activity with your whole class or with your speech therapy social groups!

How do you play this game?

Each student fills their BINGO board with the names of their classmates or group members in any random order. You then read the clues (that you've created in advance). There are premade clue cards for inspiration (you complete the clues by filling in the blanks with your students' unique information). You can also use the blank cards to create your own clues.

This Classmate BINGO game has been designed to be adaptable to meet various goals/needs and to keep things fresh. A list of adapted games you can play using the product materials and/or items you already have in your classroom/therapy room is included in the download.

What's included?!

* 10 unique colorful Classmate BINGO boards

* 1 black and white Classmate BINGO board

* 30 premade clues (big or small card options)

* Blank clue cards (big or small options)

* A list of 6 adapted versions of the game to meet different needs and keep it fresh!

* Materials required to play the adapted versions of Classmate BINGO

Examples of premade clue cards include:

This student has a pet ___ named ___.

This student has a brother named ___.

This student's birthday is ___.

This student loves to watch ___.

This student likes to/is learning how to play the ___.

Pro tip!

Put each board in a dry erase pocket sleeve or laminate your game materials to easily edit them with a dry erase marker and use them again and again!

When is it best to play Classmate BINGO?

You can play year round! It's a fun game that helps strengthen classmate connections, encourages friendships, and improves social emotional learning skills. It is also a great game to play as a follow-up to back to school, getting to know you, all about me, or icebreaker activities. Once the students have learned some facts about each other, this group therapy / classroom game is a fun way to help to reinforce the knowledge they have learned. 

You can play Classmate Connection BINGO as a back to school or first week of school game. It's also great to play after a break, throughout the school year as the students learn more about each other, and at the end of the school year so the students can take pride in how much they’ve learned about each other.

What goals/skills does this game support?

Relationship building, classmate connections, interpersonal communication, memory skills, social skills, conversation skills, social inferencing, perspective taking, and various social emotional skills. This SEL game encourages students to be observant, pay attention and think about others, and is a great reminder that we are all different but also share things in common too! 

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• Back to School Get To Know Me Sheets & Get to Know You Peer Interviews - Use the information you learn from these activities to create the personalized BINGO clues

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Are you looking for an engaging and interactive activity for the New Year? You've found it! Support your students as they take a walk down memory lane and reflect on their behavior! When you download this New Year Reflection Activity, your students will be sure to learn about and interact with each other!

With this no-prep resource, students will be given instructions on how to make a line in a variety of fun ways. They must talk with each other, sometimes communicate without talking, and rearrange themselves according to the prompt.

EXAMPLE

Line Up....

• In order of how many hours you spent on social media last semester
• Based on how many hours you spend with those you care about
• In order of how many times you wore sweatpants to school
• Based on how much you complained last semester
• And so many more!!

USE THIS RESOURCE AS A...

• Mid-year reflection
• Community building activity
• As a class warm-up or for the last few minutes of class
• For a class party! Students will love this game!

This resource includes:

• Instructions
• 35+ unique prompts for lining up
• Both a virtual game (project on the whiteboard) or printable (teacher reads prompts)
• Terms of Use

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Have students practice conversation skills while getting to know each other.

This worksheet is great for conversation skills, getting to know each other, and ice breakers for students of most grades.

Directions: Play with a partner and two dices. Each partner rolls their dice and ask the question that corresponds. Play until there are no more questions!

Includes:

+ Color Roll a Conversation Worksheet

+ Black and White Roll a Conversation Worksheet

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"Building" a safe, healthy, and happy learning environment starts with the people that we share it with! In this activity, students take on the opportunity of working effectively with others, thinking creatively, communicating respectfully, and cooperation with others all built into one activity! This is a blast for the whole class - all while focusing on so many important SEL skills. This activity includes minimal preparation yet all the benefits of so many social emotional learning skills to build (pun intended!) My students did not want this activity to end!!

Looking for more interactive activities to do with your class? Check out the links below!

Kindness Activity - The Impact of our Words (Upper Elementary)

Kindness "Hot Potato" - Interactive SEL Lesson (Multiple Grade Levels)

Leadership Activity - "Jumping Ships!" (Upper Elementary)

An interactive KINDNESS activity! This was an absolute favorite in our classroom! Our students were beaming afterwards and one even said "Wow, I never thought my classmates would say such nice things about me!" They talked about it for days afterwards and it has been an environment changer!! Included is a PDF Instruction guide - an icebreaker to start, the main activity, and reflection questions to follow. All you will need is paper and writing utensils! Enjoy!!

Give your students the opportunity to explore many different careers in a fun and interactive way! This "What Career" card game is played similar to the card game "Apples to Apples" and my students LOVED it! It lead to a lot of conversation, sharing of likes and dislikes, and questioning of what specific careers were - it was so refreshing to listen to them talk non-stop about careers during these class periods! Included in the download is everything you need to play the game, including instructions and step by step guide!

Looking for more interactive SEL classroom lessons? Check these out below!

Jumping Ships - Interactive SEL Lesson on Leadership

Kindness Activity - The Impact of our Words

Kindness "Snowball Fight"

Think Before You Speak Game - An Interactive SEL Lesson

If you are looking for a fun and interactive way for your students to not only discuss perseverance and what facing challenges looks like, but also practice the skill in a fun and engaging way, then this might be a classroom activity for you! Perseverance is one of those skills that is truly mastered when they are able to practice is "on the spot" and build skills in the moment. This activity provides a safe and comfortable way to do just that, while creating both fun scenarios and more realistic scenarios that they may face in their day to day lives. This activity includes TWO separate classroom lessons (and the foundation of a great writing activity, too!), a list of random items that you could use in your classroom, and two pages of scenario cards. Use real life objects OR print out the clip art pictures included in the digital download. Everything needed for your next engaging classroom lesson - enjoy!!

Looking for other fun, engaging, and interactive lessons? See links below!

Kindness Activity and the Impact of Your Words (Best Seller!)

Kindness Activity - Classroom "Snowball Fight"

Think Before You Speak - Interactive Game

Career Card Game - "What Career?"

An interactive KINDNESS activity! This was an absolute favorite in our classroom! Our students were beaming afterwards and one even said "Wow, I never thought my classmates would say such nice things about me!" They talked about it for days afterwards and it has been an environment changer!! Included is a Google Slides presentation to present to the class with instructions included - an icebreaker to start, the activity, and reflection questions to follow. All you will need is paper and writing utensils! Enjoy!!

Interested in the PDF version instead? Find the resource HERE!

What better way to learn kindness than by practicing and experiencing it firsthand! Get ready to have a blast with your students - this is a fun one!! This download includes THREE interactive SEL activities to introduce kindness ideas, invite creative thinking, and provide “real-time” practice of the trait! This is such a fun way to get students talking, creating, and engaging... all while being kind to one another! Digital download gives detailed instructions on how to play each version of the activity as well as 15 "pair matches" to be used in the activity (or for other uses in your classroom!)

Looking for other kindness activities for your students? See links below:

Kindness Activity and the Impact of our Words

Kindness Activity - Class "Snowball Fight"

"Think Before You Speak" - Interactive SEL Activity

Introducing the School Counselor - The Game Show is an interactive "game show" like activity where students are able to team up, make choices on categories and point values, answer questions, learn more about the school counseling role - all while having a blast doing so! This digital download purchase provides you with everything you need for a successful classroom lesson, though it may be helpful to bring a whiteboard and dry eraser marker for the "Sketch It" category. A great way to introduce yourself to students or review your role at the start of the school year or throughout. 25 questions provided. Edit: A "back to category slide" feature has been added to easily go back to the slide with all category listings. Enjoy!