Risk It or Lock It: Friendship Edition

Risk It or Lock It – Friendship Edition | Game Show Style SEL Game

Get ready for a fun, engaging, and interactive SEL game that teaches students about friendship, empathy, and positive decision-making! Risk It or Lock It: Friendship Edition is a fully editable Google Slides resource designed for middle school classrooms, advisory groups, or counseling sessions. This Deal-or-No-Deal-style game helps students practice social-emotional learning (SEL) skills while making real choices about friendship scenarios.

Students play in teams, select “backpacks,” answer friendship dilemmas, and decide whether to “Risk It” by continuing to play or “Lock It” by accepting the negotiator’s offer—promoting discussion, reflection, and collaboration.

Key Features

• 15 Editable Friendship Scenarios: Realistic dilemmas that spark discussion, empathy, and problem-solving. Teachers/ Counselors can customize content to match their classroom or counseling needs.
• Fun Game Show Audio: Optional sound effects for correct/incorrect answers, suspense, and celebration to create a high-energy game-show experience.
• Interactive Game Board: Clickable boxes for selecting backpacks and revealing dilemmas—easy to navigate.
• Multiple Ways to Play: Perfect for team play, small groups, or whole-class sessions. Encourages collaboration, debate, and SEL skill-building.
• Google Slides: Fully editable and ready to use digitally or in the classroom.
• Low Prep: Simply edit scenarios or customize slides and you’re ready to play! Perfect for last-minute SEL lessons or advisory sessions.

What’s Included

• Interactive Google Slides game board with clickable links
• 15 editable “backpacks” with hidden friendship dilemmas
• Negotiator offer slides (editable for customization)
• Fun game-show audio cues (optional & can be muted)
• Step-by-step teacher directions with editing tips
• Student directions for easy gameplay
• Reusable game board (master slide included)

Perfect For:

• Classroom community-building
• SEL mini-lessons and advisory sessions
• Morning meetings or homeroom icebreakers
• Counseling groups and social skills lessons
• Fun, interactive SEL activities for friendship, empathy, and decision-making

Time Needed: 20–45 minutes depending on the number of teams and discussion

Your students will love the suspense, strategy, and teamwork, while you’ll love how easy it is to adapt, edit, and reuse. Swap in your own scenarios, adjust gameplay options, and bring some high-energy, SEL-focused fun to your classroom today!

Important Note:

This resource uses Google Slides and will prompt you to allow access to your Google Drive in order to make a copy of the presentation. No personal information is accessed or stored. This permission is only required to create your own editable copy of the slides. Please keep this in mind before purchasing.