Middle School School Psychology 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.

The Fruit of the Spirit Retreat is a COMPLETE day of activities, lessons, handouts, and games to help students learn about the Fruit of the Spirit. Perfect for a Confirmation Retreat.

The Fruits of the Spirit from Galatians 5:22-23 are a great lesson that’s easy enough for all students to understand, but still deepen their knowledge and ability to act with those fruits. This is great for any class and would be a perfect Confirmation Retreat for Catholic students.

Galatians 5:22-23 God’s Spirit makes us loving, happy, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled.

The PowerPoint and handouts were created so it can be displayed throughout the entire retreat and guide students (and leaders) through every step of the day. Just print, prepare a few supplies (listed in the PowerPoint), and you’re ready to go! The PowerPoint is fully editable so you can read through the retreat and make adjustments to fit your students. The timing is flexible and activities could easily be moved or removed to fit your schedule. This retreat could easily fill an full day, or could be shortened without losing the meaning.

The worksheets (handouts) are in the PDF included in this download. Instructions for their use are throughout the PowerPoint.

This was designed for Middle School Students but could be used for 4th-12th grade.

Activities Included in the Retreat

• Introduction/Expectations/Prayer and Choose Group names
• Fruit of the Spirit lesson and Fruit of the Spirit Self-Assessment to help students identify their strengths and weaknesses.
• Focus on Joy with a Joy Bingo game and a Joy Thanksgiving handout.
• Focus on Self-Control with a Crossing the Lava game.
• Focus on Peace with a study on embarrassment and acceptance.
• Focus on Patience with a blindfolded obstacle challenge.
• Focus on Kindness by playing Kindness charades, writing an acrostic poem and analyzing bible verses from Proverbs.
• Focus on Goodness by practicing Conversation skills with a Hot Potato Conversation, analyzing bible verses, praying for others with doodle prayer, and learning about King Solomon.
• Focus on Faithfulness by looking at Jesus’ friendship, popularity, and faithfulness, then reflecting on personal faithfulness and popularity at your school or group. Students will also analyze their friendship circles and reflect on boundaries
• Focus on gentleness by discussing giving feedback to others, standing up for people with gentleness, and playing Statues.
• Focus on Love / Charity by creating posters using your name and a reflection of your name to help students remember that they reflect God’s love, they also will be able to spread love and charity by adding positive comments and compliments to others’ posters.

The Goodness Fruit of the Spirit Activities are two activities to focus on Goodness. Students will analyze bible verses from Romans, Genesis, Proverbs, Exodus, Psalms, and 1 Chronicles. They will create a mini-poster and complete a doodle prayer activity.

The Faithfulness Fruit of the Spirit Activities are two activities to focus on Faithfulness. Students will analyze Jesus’ life and his focus on popularity and faithfulness. They will compare Jesus’ example with the way their friends focus on popularity and the effect of positive and negative behavior connects to popularity and faithfulness with their friends.

The Kindness Fruit of the Spirit Activities are two activities to focus on Kindness. Students will analyze the meaning of Gossip, read and summarize bible verses from Proverbs related to Gossip, then evaluate and adjust their definition. Students will also create an Acrostic Poem about kindness.

These Faithfulness in friendship Fruit the Spirit Activities are two activities to focus on Faithfulness. Students will take a self-assessment and analyze their willingness to include others in their circles of friends. They will also write the names of family, friends, teachers, and others adults into a circle of friendship diagram to analyze their boundaries and friendships.

These Joy Fruit the Spirit Activities are two activities to focus on Joy. Students will meet new people and have people sign their ‘BINGO’ sheet if they like certain activities. This will help students get to know others and is a great ice-breaker. Students will also brainstorm something that they are thankful for that starts with each letter of the alphabet. Students will think about the connection between joy and thankfulness.

PowerPoint is 165 slides and is available as a PDF or PowerPoint

PDF Handouts is 13 pages

If you want to check out the printable activities separately, click here...

Faithfulness in Friendship

Faithfulness with Jesus

Joy Ice Breakers

Kindness Bible Study

Goodness Prayer Activity