Conflicts can quickly get out of hand—which is why it's important to understand the four different levels of conflict. An important lesson plan lays out the definitions of personal, local, national, and international conflict before prompting students to group conflict scenarios into the correct levels.

Concepts

conflict, conflict resolution, global conflicts

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Additional Tags

classroom support

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Instructional Ideas

• Connect with a social studies lesson to discuss the national and international levels of conflict
• Prompt learners to expand a personal conflict into a personal narrative that details whether the conflict escalated, and how it was resolved

Classroom Considerations

• Requires enough copies of the conflict scenario strips for each set of partners or small group
• The second part of a longer unit on conflict resolution

Pros

• Provides an appendix with instruction ideas
• Ideal for a peer mediation group

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.4.1 RL.5.1 RI.3.4 RI.4.4 RI.5.4