Teaching Tips: Conflict Resolution
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Be Strong, Be Mean, or Give in? Two lesson plan ideas that explore some of the options people have when dealing with conflict situations. Includes lessons for elementary, middle, and high school levels.
Conflict Resolution Activities. Designed to encourage students to think about peaceful ways to solve problems.
Decision Making. Encourages students to think of different ways to solve their problems. Students work together to make a group decision.
Flower Fight in the Forest. Two friends are fighting over flowers. What should they do? Students are encouraged to read the story and write their opinion. This site contains a submissions page and forms that ask for personal information.
Teaching Conflict Resolution Skills. A list of rules for fighting fair.
Conflict Management Techniques. Identifies five personal conflict management styles using animal analogies.
Solving Minor Problems. The purpose is to see if students can identify four steps to use when solving minor problems with other students.
Working Out Conflicts. Steps for peaceful conflict resolution and ideas for activities to practice these steps.
Skills and Concepts of Conflict Management. An index of nonviolent techniques for resolving disputes. Included are lesson plans, worksheets, and bibliographies.
What's so Bad or Good about Conflict? Explore ways in which conflict can be good or bad; create a bulletin board about conflict.
What About Fighting? Encourages students to think about the consequences of fighting to resolve conflicts.
Acting Out Conflict. Uses the "Tape Recorder Fight Play" script. After the script is acted out, students can have a chance to practice a problem-solving approach to conflict resolution.
Tape Recorder Fight Play. This role-play script is used in the "Acting Out Conflict" lesson plan in which two students have a conflict over a tape recorder. Th
Many Ways to Resolve Conflict. Students learn to identify some of the vocabulary terms used in conflict resolution.
PBS: It's My Life. Describes activities for teaching children skills needed to deal with bullies by promoting positive social skills such as cooperation, communication, and conflict resolution. Links to a video, worksheet, and short story about bullying.
Fair is Fair. Why is it important to have rules? This lesson plan refers to the book Kids with Character, by Maureen Duran. Students can participate in two unfair activities and three role-playing scenarios that illustrate the concept of fairness.
Are You a Peacemaker or a Man Eating Shark? A lesson plan to be used with the book Great White Man-Eating Shark by Margaret Mahy. Students learn the difference between negative and positive behaviors used in conflict situations.
