Unit 5 Conflict Resolution Problem Solving - Character Building Program

Unit 5 - Conflict Resolution (from the Kindness Classroom: A Social Emotional Yearlong Curriculum)

This SEL curriculum program focuses on kindness, cooperation and conflict resolution in the primary grades. It has everything you need to create a peaceful classroom!

The goal of these units are to provide easy-to-use lessons and resources to help teachers introduce students to the concept of conflict resolution - what it looks like in the classroom and how to use it going forward. We also focus on sportsmanship and appropriate ways to react to winning and losing games.

This unit is packed with many different engaging, community-building activities give students the exposure and practice ESSENTIAL social skills needed to create a successful classroom environment.

Problem solving is a SKILL that students can learn, just like other academic areas. This unit focuses on teaching specific steps for conflict resolution (ie. Stop and make sure you're calm. Say how you feel. Make a plan.) as well as many other problem solving techniques that are appropriate for little learners.

♦ Please note: This is unit 5 of the full year SEL Kindness Classroom unit, which is a comprehensive Social/Emotional Learning curriculum for the ENTIRE YEAR (40 lessons - 200+ activities). See below for details.

Click HERE to take a quick look at the full year curriculum, and to read more FAQs about the program.

♥ What’s included in UNIT 5: Conflict Resolution

→ Storybook : Little Penguin’s Big Fight: Each unit has it’s own storybook with the same central characters. This way students can refer back to the story and events as their explore the concepts. In this story, a little penguin discovers conflict resolution strategies: (Stop and make sure you're calm. Say how you feel. Make a plan. ) In the end, Little Penguin writes in his diary to review what he learned. This book can be shared as a projected ebook, or printed to add to your classroom library.

→ There are five VISUAL lessons with pictures beside each activity to keep you organized. These easy to follow plans will walk you through each lesson topic making it very easy to implement. Each of the five lessons has several different activities (usually 5-7), and includes a TEACHER SCRIPT read aloud - to help guide your lesson. This saves teachers valuable time and lets them focus on the conversation, concepts, and ideas of their students during these valuable discussions. Just print and read aloud to the class!

About The Lessons

As mentioned above, each of the 5 lessons has five or more different activities. The lesson map has both a description of the activity, and picture of the activity or finished result. Group discussions for all 5 lessons include a teacher script to guide the conversation, with question and possible answers included.

After completing the 25+ activities in the unit, students will learn to:

♦ use specific conflict resolutions strategies with peers during conflict

♦ use the classroom Peace Table to resolve conflicts collaboratively

♦ participate in many different peace keeping activities to create a peaceful classroom environment.

♦ learn about sportsmanship and how to handle winning and losing games

What Kind Of Activities Are Included?

→ Storybook “Little Penguin’s Big Fight” to read aloud and discuss (print or digital copy)

→ two-page Partner Play to practice in small groups (3 characters)

→ Class Anchor Chart about conflict resolution

→ Student anchor chart templates

→ Peaceful Dove Easy Art Project

→ Story Review: Mini-book to illustrate

→ Comic story review: focus on dialogue

→ 5 page Problem Solving Journal booklets (2 writing styles to choose from)

→ 25+ printable vocabulary cards

→ mini-flip book about being a good sport

→ When Conflict Happens - sorting activity and poster

→ "I FEEL" messages story cards for role playing

→ Problem Solving class book and home project

→ Instructions and resources to set up a class Peace Table

→ Peace Table Workbook for resolving conflict independently

→ I Am A Peace Keeper Song / Poem

→ Conflict Resolution Go Fish Card Game

→ partner play response writing

WHAT'S INCLUDED In The FULL YEAR BUNDLE?

♥ UNIT 1 - Exploring Emotions

Storybook : Little Penguin’s Big Emotions

This unit explores naming and recognizing emotions in ourselves and others, expressing emotions in appropriate ways, personal emotions vs. others

♥ UNIT 2 - Growth Mindset

Storybook : Little Penguin Learns To Fly

This unit explores learning from mistakes, perseverance, fixed vs. growth mindset, effort and our elastic brains

♥ UNIT 3 - Self Management and Regulation

Storybook: Little Penguin Calms Down

This unit explores self-control, listening skills, calming strategies, anger management, visualization, mindfulness, anxiety and impulse control

♥ UNIT 4 - Kindness and Relationships

Storybook: Little Penguin’s Kindness Contest

This unit explores kindness, bucket filling, inclusion, friendship, empathy, helping others, compassion, and communication and language to express kindness

♥ UNIT 5 - Conflict Resolution Strategies

Storybook: Little Penguin’s Big Fight

This unit explores conflict resolution strategies to use in the classroom, role playing, using I-Messages, and sportsmanship

♥ UNIT 6 - Respect and Inclusion

Storybook: Little Penguin Meets a Bully

This unit explores respect for self, others, and the earth, respect for the classroom environment and materials, diversity, bullying, and assertiveness, community, culture

♥ UNIT 7 - Personal Responsibility

Storybook: Little Penguin Is Responsible / Makes Good Choices

This unit explores being responsible, decision making, honesty, citizenship, integrity, classroom expectations, rights and responsibilities

♥ UNIT 8 - Attitude and Gratitude

Storybook: Little Penguin Looks On the Bright Side

This unit explores having a good attitude, optimism, happiness, appreciation, gratitude, and resilience

♥ ♥ Teachers, please click the PREVIEW button above to see a detailed description of activities and a curriculum map of the whole program.

Click HERE to take a quick look at the full year curriculum, and to read more FAQs about the program.

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