Conflict Resolution: Middle School Lesson

Description

Help your middle school students learn how to recognize and manage their conflicts with this ready-to-use SEL lesson! This resource helps students build awareness about everyday conflicts and how to peacefully resolve them using I messages and other de-escalation techniques.

💡 What’s Included:

• PowerPoint Presentation introducing conflict resolution in an engaging, student-friendly way.
• Conflict Resolution Skills Poster
• Listening activity
• I messages activity
• Staying calm activity
• Compromise activity
• Thinking about consequences activity
• Seeking help activity
• Peaceful vs Non-peaceful Signals activity
• Writing Prompts
• Conflict Resolution Scenario Practice:

-School

-Digital

-Home

-Social

• Read & Respond
• True or False Practice.
• Sketch Notes (perfect for students to take notes on the PowerPoint)
• Task Cards with response paper.
• Entrance and Exit Ticket Prompts
• Black and White version included for easy printing.

🧩 Skills Students Will Learn:

• Handle disagreements in calm and respectful ways
• Stay in control of their emotions during conflicts
• Listen to others and understand different perspectives
• Use “I” messages to communicate feelings clearly
• Find compromises that work for everyone
• Think about short-term and long-term consequences
• Know when to handle a conflict on their own or seek help
• Apply conflict resolution skills to school, online, and home situations

🌈 Why You’ll Love It:

This lesson makes teaching emotional regulation easy, interactive, and meaningful. With ready-to-go visuals, hands-on activities, and reflection prompts, students not only learn what conflict resolution is—but how to actually use it in real life.

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⏳Product Q&A⏳

▶️Where can I find the google classroom link?

Google slides link and instructions are on the 2nd page of the PDF.

▶️What formats are included?

-Pdf version to print out.

-Powerpoint presentation.

-Google Slides version.

▶️What mode should I use this in google slides?

This product is meant to be used in "edit" mode (not "presentation" mode). Edit mode is the only mode that allows drag & drop and writing in text boxes.

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⭐Recommended Resources⭐

★ Emotional Regulation: Middle School Lesson

★Middle School Files

★ Middle School Character Education: Kindness

★ Social Emotional Learning Curriculum BUNDLE

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