Improvising Conflict is a roleplaying card game designed to facilitate middle/high school students practicing conflict management. Improvising Conflict is informed by Mass Healthy Learning Frameworks 12.3.HR.6, Appropriately resolve interpersonal conflicts in various settings (...). Improvising Conflict allows students to gain first-hand experience dealing with everyday conflict without the stress or stakes.

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Three Original Ideas

Conflict Card Game

D&D Style Conflict RPG

Alcohol Context and Culture Lesson Plan

three early ideas; posed-for images; ones we chose

(1-2 slides)

here we talk about the element of each of these we used

Precedents

Sketches

talk about the feedback we got

complications; motivations; specific

Second Playtest & Feedback

Conflict goals work

Need help getting into character

Convos can get stuck

Complication cards lack educational value

Objective: Student will gain an understanding of effective conflict management strategies and participate in or observe a mock conflict.

Anticipatory Set: A whole group conversation or individual worksheet/journaling about places that one might experience conflict in their life.

Direct Instruction: The teacher will ask the group to share out way that they manage conflict. The purpose of this is to give students a general sense of their peers' experiences. The teacher will then move onto some scientifically proven conflict management strategies, tools, and practices. (UC Berkeley)

Guided Instruction: The concept and mechanics of the activity will be introduced and two students will volunteer/be chosen to be the people in the conflict. The activity will happen a few times depending on time with a different conflict scenario and students in the two roles.

Closure/assessment: A conversation will be held about how the activity went, especially in regard to how the characters approached the conflicts and what happened when they used conflict management strategies.

Places one experiences conflict

Ways you manage conflict shout-out

UC

Berkeley

Strats

Activity

Reflection

For a one hour lesson

10 mins

10 mins

10 mins

10 mins

20 mins

Next Steps

Whole class engament

Conversation refreshment

Delivery

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