Conflict Resolution Activities Promote positive community building with these activities. These lessons are appropriate for...		A Back-to-School Conversation Foster trust in the classroom through this first day of school activity.
Acting Out Conflict Students act out skits showing typical conflicts that arise in school and then resolve them...		Getting to Know Each Other Through Poetry Students get to know each other through a poetry writing activity.
Practicing Problem Solving Help students solve word problems using a step-by-step process.		What Is a Peaceable Classroom? An activity to encourage your students to interact peacefully in the classroom.
Talk It Out Together In this school safety lesson plan, students learn the Talk It Out Together conflict-solving...		Make a Rainbow Bulletin Board Students describe their helpful behaviors and create a bulletin board.
First Day Celebration Throw a "Getting to Know You" party on the first day of school.		Brainstorming for Consensus Employ this activity when you want to teach younger students how to brainstorm ideas.
Identify the Resolution This handout is for use in the There Are Many Ways to Resolve Conflicts lesson plan.		Self Portrait Class Book Make a book of self-portraits that you can then use to compare with end of the year portraits.
Similar and Different Students discuss the ways in which they are similar and different.		Classmate Book Report Icebreaker Students generate fake book reports with their classmates by sharing information.
Remembering Names Use these fun games to help students remember each other's names.		Student Baseball Cards Students make baseball cards as a way of getting to know one another.
Follow Me Freeze Build classroom community while giving many students the chance to lead your class.		Name Game Improve students' alphabet recognition and letter-sound associations while learning fellow...
Classroom Introductions Introduce yourself to your students and discuss year long objectives. Students also introduce...		Squiggle Drawing Students learn about group dynamic by creating a group picture.