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		MINI-LESSON: Learning About Good Sportsmanship Students learn to support their opinions. Additional resources available at www.timeforkids.com

• NCAA Hall of Champions: Stay in Bounds Activities
  Emphasizes the values of Respect, Integrity, Caring , Harmony, Excellence and Responsibility (RICHER) within the community.
  http://www.ncaa.org/hall_of_champions/educators/educators_activities.htm
• Go Team! - Identifying and Assessing the Qualities of Team Leaders and Team Players
  In this lesson, students share opinions about the qualities that a great team leader might possess. They then participate in a team-building exercise in order to reflect on their own roles as team players and/or leaders. Learning is synthesized by writing reflection papers exploring a time when they exhibited good or bad sportsmanship.
  http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20070607thursday.html
• Sportsmanship Education
  A free guide to promoting sportsmanship in your school. Includes materials on the "High Fives" to Sportsmanship.
  http://www.wcpss.net/athletics/sportsmanship/
• Sportsmanship: Building Character or "Characters"?
  Features a detailed "Code of Sportsmanship" for Youth Sports.
  http://www.educ.msu.edu/Webbers/HomePages/Benham/sportsm.html
• Chess Lesson Plans
  Chess is becoming more popular in schools due to the fact that it is a board game of skill and strategy. Chess also teaches children about good sportsmanship as well as how to lose with grace.
  http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathChessProblemSolving28.htm
• It's Not Whether You Win or Lose: Teaching Good Sportsmanship
  Tips to help teach kids that it's not whether you win or lose, but good sportsmanship is how you play the game.
  http://life.familyeducation.com/teen/sports-parents/48516.html

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