Depth and Complexity
Activities

Ready-to-use tasks where students apply Depth and Complexity prompts to real content. Not worksheets with icons stamped on them. Students analyze characters, upgrade research questions, and build thinking with frames.

Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity

Your students will use Depth and Complexity to note how a character’s main trait changes across a story.

Gr 2-8

Upgrade Research Questions With Depth and Complexity

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.

Gr 2-8

Student Introductions With Depth, Complexity, and Frames: Level Two

Once students know the prompts of Depth and Complexity, let’s take them much higher up Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Gr 2-8

I’m Ian Byrd. I co-wrote the book on Depth and Complexity with Lisa Van Gemert and I’ve been building D&C video lessons at Byrdseed.TV since 2009.

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Depth and Complexity
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