ANGER MANAGEMENT LESSON PLANS & WORKSHEETS

• IT"S OK TO BE ANGRY - In this lesson, students explore the positive aspects of anger. They devise a list of their anger rights and create contrasting scenes to demonstrate negative and positive anger.
• FEELING ANGRY - This worksheet enables students to identify how their bodies change when they become angry. They interpret a diagram and write an explanation.
• FEELING CALM - In this lesson, students describe and imitate an illustration to learn how their bodies feel when they are relaxed.
• TALKING ABOUT FEELINGS - In this lesson, students increase their ability to describe their feelings through an anger management activity based on vocabulary and mime.
• SIGNPOSTS OF ANGER - In this lesson, students identify facial expressions of anger and write anger management diary entries to explore the feelings behind these expressions.
• TYPES OF BEHAVIOUR - This worksheet focuses on aggressive, passive and assertive behaviour. Students match anger characteristics and behaviour types.
• I'M OK! - In this lesson, students focus on a positive self-image through devising affirmative statements about themselves and others.
• AM I ASSERTIVE? - With this worksheet, students complete a list of statements to find their level of assertiveness and describe situations in which they would like to behave differently.
• 'I' MESSAGES - In this lesson, students practise assertive anger management techniques through making statements about their feelings.
• ANGER TRIGGERS - In this lesson, students identify people and situations that trigger an angry response.
• TURN ON YOUR TAP - In this lesson, students learn how to avoid trigger situations through applying the Trigger Avoidance Plan of anger management.
• PLAN TO STAY COOL - This lesson plan introduces students to a four-stage plan for anger management. It makes suggestions for each stage of the anger management process.
• STAY COOL 1 - In this lesson, students learn how to re-frame their thoughts about their anger triggers by creating alternative sets of thoughts for such anger management situations.
• STAY COOL 2 - In this lesson, students learn how to reduce the likelihood of becoming angry by planning alternative anger management strategies.
• WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF... - This worksheet enables students to consider the consequences of losing control when they feel angry. They respond to illustrated examples and apply what they learn to their own anger management situation.
• THINK AGAIN - In this lesson plan, students learn how to re-frame their responses to their anger triggers by creating anger defusing scenarios.
• I'M REALLY ANGRY WITH YOU! - In this lesson, students learn how to talk to someone who has made them angry. They learn two key points and apply them to different anger management situations.
• TALKING ABOUT IT - In this lesson, students learn how to talk about feelings of anger through a phone-in anger management activity.
• POSITIVE FEELINGS - In this lesson, students identify strategies which help them to recover from situations in which they have felt angry.
• FEELING GOOD - In this lesson, students develop a personal plan of activities to enable them to feel good about themselves and others. They approach the anger management plan through a sorting activity.
• MY ANGER DIARY - In this lesson, students focus on recording their experiences with anger management. They design a diary page and draw up a format for a whole journal.
• CHILL OUT - This lesson is a relaxation exercise enabling students to develop personal relaxation techniques and an understanding of how relaxation can work to help them with anger management.
• CALM VISIONS - In this lesson, students practise visualisation as a way of staying calm and thinking positively.
• DON'T KICK THE CAT! - In this lesson, students respond to an anger management case study about the consequences of taking anger out on the wrong person.
• WHY ARE YOU ANGRY WITH ME? - In this lesson, students discuss strategies for responding to others' anger and apply them to their own anger management situations.
• DEALING WITH CRITICISM - In this lesson, students develop strategies for dealing with criticism through a roleplay exercise.
• PUTTING IT RIGHT - A problem-page worksheet in which students identify ways of repairing relationships damaged through anger.
• MOVING ON - In this lesson, students consolidate their learning about anger management and complete anger profiles for a partner and for themselves.
• APPENDIX 1 - Feelings Words cards for use with Talking About Feelings and My Anger Diary lesson plans.
• APPENDIX 2 - Types of behaviour for use with Types Of Behaviour lesson plans.
• APPENDIX 3 - Feel Good cards for use with Feeling Good lesson plans.
• APPENDIX 4 - Alternative anger management activities.