Conflict Resolution Scenarios for Teens
Social Skills & SEL Task Cards
- Grades
- Grades 6–10
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 30
- Answer keys
- Included
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Give teens real tools for real conflicts. These conflict resolution lessons and 24 scenario task cards help middle and high school students handle group chats that blow up, teammates who never pass, siblings who borrow everything and group projects where one person does nothing. Students learn conflict styles, I-statements, active listening, de-escalation and how to apologize well, then practice with realistic scenarios and role-plays.
What's included
- Teacher guide with 6-day pacing, materials and differentiation (support, on level, challenge)
- Discussion guide with questions and what to listen for, class norms, and conflict vs. bullying guidance
- Standards page (CASEL, ASCA Student Standards, CCSS Speaking & Listening) with contents
- What Is Conflict? notes: 5 types of conflict + conflict vs. bullying practice
- Five Conflict Styles (avoid, accommodate, compete, compromise, collaborate) with diagram
- Name That Style practice (13 items) + My Conflict Style self-check
- I-Statements notes with feeling word bank + I-Statement Practice worksheet
- Active Listening notes and paraphrasing practice
- De-Escalation: 6 steps + escalator vs. de-escalator sort
- Apologizing Well: 5 parts of a real apology, fake vs. real, rate and rewrite
- Conflict Resolution Steps poster (6 steps) + a worked walk-through
- 24 scenario task cards in 6 categories (school, friends, online, family, team/sports, group projects), each with a response prompt
- 2 task card recording sheets
- 6 fold-over role-play cards (each person sees only their own role) + observer checklist and 20-point rubric
- Think Sheet: After a Conflict (reflection, not punishment)
- 6 exit tickets
- Complete answer keys with sample answers for all 24 cards and all 6 role-plays
How to use it
Use it in advisory, homeroom, SEL, character education, school counseling lessons or small groups. Teach all 6 lessons, or use the task cards on their own as stations or discussion starters. Print and go: just cut the cards.
Skills practiced
Conflict resolutionconflict stylesI-statementsactive listeningde-escalationapologizingperspective-takingproblem solving
