Connected+and+Respected+-+Lessom+7+Preventing+Escalation

**Submitted/Created By:** Leah Mullenbach Grade 3 (Adapted from Connected and respected Lesson 7)

**Standards:**

1A Student demonstrates awareness of their emotions. (I am aware of what I am feeling.)

2A Student demonstrates an ability to manage his/her emotions constructively.(I can responsibly manage my emotions.)

3D Student can read social cues. (I care about how I perceive others and how they perceive me.)

**When Taught:** I followed the Connected and Respected Lesson order so this came around the 2nd or 3rd quarter.

**Materials:** Copy of backpack conflict or created story about a conflict that escalates. Number line 1-10 on 2 colors of paper (yellow and blue).

**Time:** 45 minutes (can be done in multiple sessions)

**Goal:** Help students recognize what makes them escalate when they are angry, how to prevent it and how to help prevent escalation in conflict with others.

**Lesson Steps:** -In a circle have students complete this sentence, “When I am angry, something that really make sit worse is…” -After children have shared, discuss conflict escalation (suggestions for this discussion are in Connected and Respected: Grades 3-5). -Give students a paper that has the numbers 1-10 on a number line. -Have them partner up with a teammate that has a number line on another color of paper. (There should be only 2 colors of paper.) -Read the Backpack Conflict from Connected and Respected: Grades 3-5. -Assign a color to each character, for example yellow for Danielle and blue for Giorgio. -After each event, have partners circle the number that describes how upset the character might be with 1 being perfectly happy and 10 being furious. -Watch to see if the children identify that the characters’ anger might be escalating. -Discuss why each person is getting angrier asking, “What things do the characters do that make the conflict worse?” -Then, role play the situation but have students think of ways to prevent the escalation. <span class="custom_bold">-What could have done in the very beginning?

<span class="custom_bold">**Assessment or Follow up Activity:** -Have students make a list of 4 things that might make escalate their anger. <span class="custom_bold">-Then have them flip the paper over and make a list of 5 things they can do (in school) to help calm themselves down if they feel like they are getting angrier about something. <span class="custom_bold">-We then kept these in our desks for a couple weeks and pulled them out to review after conflicts occurred in the classroom.