Videos and tasks related to the Depth and Complexity Framework.
Part 1 of Introducing Depth and Complexity
Let's get students thinking big and focusing on more abstract ideas.
Part 2 of Introducing Depth and Complexity
Get kids focusing on the small, but essential, details of a topic.
Part 3 of Introducing Depth and Complexity
Want to add drama to any topic? Use the Ethics prompt!
Want to introduce the tools of Depth and Complexity and learn more about your students and introduce the Frame graphic organizer? Have I got the activity for you!
Ever ask students to create research questions? Were their ideas a bit⦠blah? My own students had a very hard time writing questions they didn't already know the answer to! This video is how I solved that problem: upgrade research questions with depth and complexity.
Your students will use Depth and Complexity to note how a character's main trait changes across a story.
Students will introduce themselves by showing how they've changed over time.
Part 8 of Introducing Depth and Complexity
Imagine a construction worker who doesn't know the name of a screwdriver or a doctor who can't remember what to call your neck. It's pretty hard to communicate well without knowing the π Language of the Discipline!
Part 4 of Introducing Depth and Complexity
In this video, we introduce the π Multiple Perspectives prompt of Depth and Complexity.
Part 10 of Introducing Depth and Complexity
This underutilized tool focuses students on what we donβt yet know and even what we canβt know.
Part 6 of Introducing Depth and Complexity
Is there a consequence for not doing something? You may have found a rule!
Can you think of a time in your life when "Change lead to more change?"
Part 11 of Introducing Depth and Complexity
Has something been changing recently? What might be causing that? What are the effects?
Part 5 of Introducing Depth and Complexity
Can your students spot anything that repeats? Or that has stopped repeating?
Part 7 of Introducing Depth and Complexity
Want to get students thinking about how a topic has changed or might change in the future? The β³ Change Over Time thinking tool is just what you need!
So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Change? Well, here's an introduction that will get your students' brains sweating.
Part 9 of Introducing Depth and Complexity
No topic is an island! With the π Across Disciplines prompt, students note connections within and across multiple fields.
Students explore this generation about how problems lead to new rules, and new rules lead to new problems.
Students will explore how systems are often made up of smaller systems (and are usually a part of a larger system, too).
Here's how effects be causes and causes can be effects!
Can you think of times when power is unseen, but we can clearlyΒ see its effects?
Take your students further up Bloom's Taxonomy by asking them to make a change using one of the prompts of depth and complexity and then consider what the effects of that change would be.
Once your students can identify the rules, language, or big ideas of a topic, we've got to move them up Bloom's Taxonomy! Let's start by contrasting with a related topic.
So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Power? Well, here's an introduction that will get your students' brains sweating.
What would Socrates have thought if he watched Frozen?
So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Systems? Well, here's an introduction that will get your students' brains sweating.
So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Conflict? Well, here's an introduction that will get your students' brains sweating.
How can one idea pull in opposite directions, being both true and false or right and wrong at the same time? It's time to explore Paradoxes!
Take students back to the beginning by using the Content Imperative βΊοΈ Origin.
Get students thinking broadly by exploring similarities across multiple topics. Combine with Depth and Complexity for bonus points!
Once students know the prompts of Depth and Complexity, let's take them much higher up Bloom's Taxonomy.
Students explore this generation about how order can be both natural and created by humans.
Ask students to consider how a specific factor is affecting (or β¬ Contributing) to a topic.
Add complexity by considering how multiple factors π Converge within one topic.
How would an economist read Goldilocks? How would they see a rainforest? How would they study the American Revolution?
What if your students rewrote Dickens in the style of Hemingway and vice versa?