Committee for Children
Second Step: Grade K: Lesson 16: Managing Danger
This lesson from Second Step will help students learn how to manage their anger.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Teaching Guide: Controlling Anger
A collection of activities and discussion questions to assist young learners in learning to control their anger.
Committee for Children
Second Step: Grade K: Lesson 15: Managing Anger
This Second Step lesson resource is for kindergarten parents. This resource accompanies Lesson 15: Handling Waiting.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Teaching Guide: Controlling Anger (Spanish)
The Spanish version of a collection of activities and discussion questions to assist young students in learning to control their anger.
Read Works
Read Works: Blue Nail Polish
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Molly who learns that it's okay to be angry, but she still has to act appropriately. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Committee for Children
Second Step: Grade K: Lesson 17: Managing Disappointment
In this lesson from Second Step, students will learn how to handle their disappointment constructively.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Teaching Guides for K 5
Guides for teaching life skills that range from trustworthiness to conflict resolution. These guides were created for use with a set of videos, "The Six Pillars of Character," but most of the information and ideas can be used without...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Cutting
At this site from Family Doctor.org read about Emma's disorder, her reasons for exhibiting such behaviors, their dangers, and where to find help. This site also includes links to similar articles.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Feeling Angry
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart describing different strategies for dealing with anger. Provides ideas for discussions on how we deal with anger and what we can do to control it.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Dealing With Feelings
Through the exercises presented at this website, students with "Learn that other kids experience the same kids of emotions as they do," "That it's important to understand what we're feeling," and "That we can often benefit by discussing...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Handling Emotions
Know that it is normal to experience different emotions and learn positive ways to deal with your emotions. This website, which is meant to accompany a video on emotions and good character, provides questions for discussion, activity...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Dealing With Disappointment
Children learn ways of dealing with feelings after being disappointed through simple exercises and tips, as well as questions for discussion and writing prompts. Includes ideas for home assignments and notes for parents.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Preventing Conflicts & Violence
Learn how conflicts arise, how to prevent conflicts, and how emotions and attitudes affect conflicts. Also, learn how to speak out against violence with the help of the discussion questions, activity ideas, and writing prompts provided...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Complexity of Fear" by Mary C. Lamia, ph.d
A learning module that begins with "The Complexity of Fear" by Mary C. Lamia, Ph.D., accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: 'Lockdown' Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Lockdown by Diane Tullson looks at what could happen when a student brings a gun to school, intent on revenge. This teacher's guide includes a book summary, discussion topics and teaching ideas.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Who Owns Kelly Paddik? Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Kelly's pain over past sexual abuse causes her to behave in a way that lands her in a secure facility, where she is tormented by other inmates. Eventually she begins to ask for the help she needs in order to heal. This teacher's guide...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Working Out Conflicts
Learn how to work out conflicts with others "Fairly and peacefully." The Spanish version of this website includes simple tips to help you resolve problems, control your anger. Discuss conflict resolution with other students and your...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Eleven by Patricia Giff: Book Notes: Educator's Guide
A pre-reading activity and some thematic connections for class discussion are at the heart of this teacher's guide for Eleven by Patricia Giff.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Snitch Teaching Guide [Pdf]
This is a teaching guide for "Snitch," a book by Norah McClintock. Josh is trying to get his life back on track after being in trouble with the law. He attends an anger management course but has difficulty keeping his anger in check when...
Other
The Buddy System
The Buddy System is a show that "features songs about expression of feelings, friendship skills, peaceful problem solving, anger management and self-esteem. It is designed to support violence prevention programs through music in a fun...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Definition of Cool
Talk with your children about what it means to be cool. Encourage them to realize that being cool means feeling good about your actions and yourself.