Anger/Conflict Management

Sometimes it's hard for kids to express their anger appropriately, or to understand what is happening to their bodies when they feel angry. An insightful lesson about anger management can help them identify angry feelings. It includes a...

What's a healthy way to express your anger? A classroom poster informs kids that feeling angry is all right, but hurting others, yourself, or property is not.

Help your learners respond to feelings of anger appropriately by working with them to brainstorm fitting responses to stressful situations. This organizer includes a list of anger-causing situations paired with images, a column for an...

Help learners who struggle with blurting out statements when they are angry by reviewing a series of statements and determining when, if ever, they are appropriate to say.

Two activities focus on stress—common stressors and coping strategies. In the first activity, scholars identify stressors and explore ways to keep stress away. To aid the process, learners create a poster and complete a handout...

Students examine how angry words can effect the people and environment around them and identify ways to cope with angry feelings. They listen to the book Andrew's Angry Words by Dorothea Lachner, and participate in a simulation of how...

Students explore their feelings. In this anger awareness instructional activity, students are divided into pairs and take turns sharing a time when they were angry. Students are asked to remember the bodily sensations and thoughts they...

Students discuss anger triggers and how they know they are getting angry. In this anger lesson plan, students discuss anger vocabulary and how to calm themselves down.

Students explore how to manage angry feelings. In this behavior lesson plan, students discuss techniques to handle angry feelings, such as counting to ten and talking out the problem.