HEALTH LESSON PLAN- ANGER MANAGEMENT

Instructor Name:
Colleen Trumble
Class:
Dr. Hamman Elementary School. Grade 3/4
12:35-1:05 pm
Lesson Title:
Getting a Look at Anger
Tech Requirements: (list all materials you might need. Include special
materials like balloons and also basic classroom materials like chalkboards).
• Five slips of paper, each with a different conflict on it.
• Whiteboard or Smart board to brainstorm ideas
• Whiteboard markers
• Sheet with questions to take home and answer with parents. 17 copies.

Administrative Notes: (if relevant, include any information needed to share

with the teacher or the class).
• Let other teachers know we will be discussing anger, so if they hear
slamming doors or yelling, it is part of the lesson.
General Outcome:
• Students will develop effective interpersonal skills that demonstrate
responsibility, respect, and caring in order to establish and maintain
healthy interactions.
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Specific Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate safe and appropriate ways for sharing and/or expressing
feelings through words and behavior
• Develop, with guidance, effective communication skills and strategies to
express feelings e.g. appropriate expressions of anger

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KSA’S:
2) The structure of the Alberta Education system
3) The purposes of the Guide to Education and programs of study for
subject disciplines you teach
4) Subject Disciplines you teach
6) The purposes of short, medium and long range planning
7) Student’s need for physical, social, cultural and psychological
security
8) Importance of respecting student’s human dignity
9) There are many approaches to teaching and learning
11) The purposes of student assessment
 12) The importance of engaging parents, purposefully and
meaningfully, in all aspects of teaching and learning
13) Student learning is enhanced though the use of home and
community resources
16) The importance of guiding your actions with a personal, overall
vision of the purpose of teaching
17) You are expected to achieve the teaching quality standard

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Method of Assessment:

• Observation during the emotional sculptures game

• Participation in class discussions
• Looking at the sheet that is sent home with them. Check their answers
to see how well they have understood lesson on anger management

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ACTIVITIES
Name of Exercise: Expected Length: (in
Emotional Sculptures minutes)
Activity- 2 minutes.
Discussion- 5 minutes
Purpose: (why is this exercise included in the lesson)
So the students may identify what anger looks like in a person, physically.

Detailed instructions: (how will this exercise be explained to the group)

• The class will be split into partners via popsicle sticks
• One will be the sculpture, one will be the artist
• Ask the artists to sculpt their statues into an “angry” position.
• Give 30 seconds for this. Stress that the statues have to be in a position
that they can hold (no standing on one foot) and the artists cannot
touch the statue.
• Once the statues have frozen, we will go around to each statue and
point out a physical feature that shows anger on them (clenched
muscles, fists, sharp angles, red faces, powerful poses)
• Instructor will ask for the people who point out different angry features
to write them on the white board
• Next the class will switch partners and show anger again, instructor will
encourage creativity, choose something that has not been done yet!
• They will examine the frozen statues and point out physical features
which represent anger on a person.
• Instructor will ask for the people who point out different features to
 write them on the white board
• Instructor will then point out different ways that people can show anger.
This can include slamming the door, yelling or speaking sharply

Name of Exercise: Expected Length: (in

Angry Situations minutes)
20 minutes
Purpose: (why is this exercise included in the lesson)
So the students have a chance to enact escalating conflict, and as a group,
figure out how to de-escalate the situation or neutralize it.
Detailed instructions: (how will this exercise be explained to the group)
• Split the class into groups of 3
• Tell each group to find their own space in the classroom
• Give each group a specific conflict written on a piece of paper, tell them
they have 5 minutes to rehearse this skit before performing it in front of
the class.
• Call groups up to front based on volunteers. Stress the importance of
applause .
• After each group goes, brainstorm with the class what they could have
done in that situation to control their anger, and neutralize the situation.
ASK FOR HANDS!

Name of Exercise: Expected Length: (in

Closing Discussion minutes)
5 minutes
Purpose: (why is this exercise included in the lesson)
To review what we have learned in class today as well as explain the
homework that will be sent home with the students to do with their parents.
Detailed instructions: (how will this exercise be explained to the group)
• The instructor will go over what physical characteristics we have
associated with anger and also review what methods we have used to
diffuse situation.
• The instructor will send home a sheet with the questions
What makes you angry?
What do you do when you are angry?
How do you calm down from being angry?
Does your family have a routine that they follow if they become angry?
(such as a time out, meditation, discussing it, talking to pets, writing in
journals?)
• Instructor will ask students to bring back the sheets for the next health
class, and we will talk discuss them.
Observations/Comments/Reflections
Health Class Name:_______________

Managing My Anger

Please look at and answer the following questions with your parents and bring this
sheet back for next week’s health class (Thursday, November 20, 2008).

1) What makes you angry?

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2) What do you do when you are angry?

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3) How do you calm down from being angry?

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 4) Does your family have a routine that they follow if they become angry? (such
as a time out, meditation, discussing it, talking to pets, writing in journals?)

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