“Define these 👄 terms in your own words” may contain depth and complexity… but it’s neither deep nor complex!
Content Area: Cross Curricular
Multiple Perspectives Gone Mad!!
Yes, I actually gave my students this question: “How could two experts’ 👓 perspectives regarding information from this reading selection differ from one another?” yikes.
Matching Flowers and Pollinators
How to add a couple of Analyze-level tasks to this Synthesize activity.
My Biggest Mistake with the Depth and Complexity Icons
My biggest problem when implementing Depth and Complexity? I used them in a shallow and simple way!
Introducing Ourselves With Depth and Complexity and Frames
A go-to activity to introduce the prompts of depth and complexity to students while they also introduce themselves to their new classmates.
Create A Civilization: The River
Most humans want to live near fresh water, which means that most civilizations settled near a river! Let’s add a river to your students’ civilizations.
Curiosity Skill: Encouraging Students to Ask Other Students
If you want to make a massive change in the culture of your classroom, move from teachers asking students all of the questions to students asking each other questions!
Graphic Organizers Are Not Final Products
If you looked around my classrooms, you would have spotted a huge red flag hanging on my walls. No, not a literal red flag! But a major clue that I was limiting my students’ thinking. My walls were covered in students’ graphic organizers. Graphic Organizers Are A Scaffold But now I know that graphic organizers […]
A Tessellation Art (and Math) Project
Let’s create an MC Escher-style tessellation art (and math) project with nothing more than an index card, a marker, and paper.
Concentric Circles – Getting Students to Think Bigger (and Smaller!)
This differentiation technique is called “Concentric Circles”. You use it to move students up and down the ladder of abstraction, applying a single idea in multiple contexts.