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Good Sportsmanship Activity Booklet, Playing Fair Activities, Educational, Girl Scout Badge Resource

Good sportsmanship activity booklet built around the Girl Scout Cadette badge: students define sportsmanship, hunt for do and don't cards in a sorting game, and discuss how negative comments affect others.
Grades
Grades 6–8, Middle School
File type
PDF
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Updated Oct 26, 2026

Subject
Life Studies, Coaching, P.E. & Health, Physical Education, Creative Arts, Art
Topic
good sportsmanship, activity booklet
Resource types
Workbooks, Worksheets & Printables
Preparation
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What's inside this resource

This beneficial teaching resource focuses on the development of good sportsmanship skills among students in middle school grades (Grades 6 to 8). It is a practical addition to any educator's toolkit and can be integrated into various subjects such as life studies, art & music, P.E. & Health.

The booklet provides interactive activities fulfilling the requirements for Cadette Good Sportsmanship badge. While initially designed for Girl Scouts, it can also be used by Frontier Girl leaders for similar badges.

  • Main Focus: To cultivate understanding and application of good sportsmanship. This includes showing respect toward players irrespective of results, maintaining fairness during interactions with coaches or referees and displaying maturity when subjected to differing judgments from officials.
  • Interactive Games: Highlighting both positive sportsmanship aspects as well as instances of poor conduct within sport environments.
  • Fostering Courtesy:The booklet propels students into examining circumstances where competitiveness coexists with politeness through experiential learning activities.
  • Inclusive Team Spirit: Tailored exercises teach young girls how they could emerge as supportive teammates through group work methodologies which emphasize previously learnt good sportsmanship skills.
  • Mental Preparedness: An exploration about psych-up techniques employed by professional athletes is presented for boosting their learning experience. Vision Board Activity:
    This assists in reinforcing their understanding by urging them to create vision boards reflecting everything learned about being a courteous sportsperson within class curriculum or co-curricular setup. Their artwork combined with recall abilities allows them consolidate the teachings about healthy competition practices and fair gameplay culture learnt through different stages of this resourceful booklet.

In spite of not being officially associated with The Girl Scouts of USA or Frontier Girls, this resource aligns well with personal growth parameters. Therefore, it is a useful choice for educators seeking to instill value-based attributes in their students beyond conventional academics.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Define sportsmanship in their own words
  • Explain how negative comments affect other people

Teaching tips

  • The 'Pass the Apple' activity needs a real apple, and the scavenger hunt calls for a glue stick along with the printed cards.

Skills covered

  • Sorting behavior — placing sportsmanship cards into do and don't groups during the scavenger hunt

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Sportsmanship
  • Fair play
  • Respectful competition

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