Samantha West Health Lesson Title: Resolving Conflict Content area: Mental and Emotional Health Grade: 1 Time:

30 minutes This Lesson is adapted from the Resolving Conflict lesson from healthteacher.com. I taught this lesson during my first student teaching placement in Des Moines Public Schools. They use healthteacher.com for their health curriculum. Synopsis: Students discuss the term conflict after listening to a story about three friends who resolve minor conflicts during the course of a day. They color and cut pictures of conflict situations and ways to resolve them. Key Concepts: Even friends have conflicts. It is important to figure out how to solve a conflict. NHES Alignments: Common Core: English Language Arts Alignments Reading: Integrations of Knowledge and Ideas Speaking and Listening: Comprehension and Collaboration National Physical Education Standards Alignment: Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings. National Science Standards Alignment: Personal and Social Perspectives: As a result of activities in grades K-4, all students should develop understanding of: personal health, characteristics and changes in populations, types of resources, changes in environments, science and technology in local challenges. National Social Studies Standards Alignment: Civics Standard 5: Roles of the Citizen Objectives: Students will identify conflicts. Students will demonstrate conflict resolution techniques. Students will understand the wording we expect when dealing with conflicts. Instruction: Read and discuss the book Friends by Helme Heine. This story describes a day in the life of three friends. During the course of the day, the friends resolve minor conflicts. Questions: Who were the three friends? What things did the friends do together? Introduce the word conflict:

A conflict happens when people disagree about something. Did the friends in the book always agree? (NO) When did they disagree? What did they have conflicts about? Introduce the idea of resolving a conflict: When a conflict happens it is very important to resolve or settle the problem. It is important for you to know that problems can be resolved without hurting someones feelings. There are some important steps in resolving a problem. 1- State the problem 2- Listen to each other 3- Compromise In this classroom we make sure to use I statements. When a conflict arises we need to make sure we say I dont like it when ________. The other person would then say, Im sorry, next time I will ______. Then you will respond with, Thanks, Ill be looking for that. When we use this language it becomes easier to solve problems and compromise. We want to make sure we understand each other. I then drew sticks and called students up and gave them a scenario of a conflict that may happen. They were then to act out the conflict with me as the other person. I used my background knowledge to use certain situations that the student has already had to deal with so they were able to relate easily. I then allowed two students to model this for the class. They were then given a scenario and went through the steps to resolve it with a partner.