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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
Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity
Anyone can say a character changed. Your students will prove it: four details from the beginning, four from the end, and the two traits those details point to.
Gr 4-8
Upgrade Research Questions With Depth and Complexity
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 1-8
Student Introductions With Depth, Complexity, and Frames: Level Two
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.

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We take our Depth and Complexity activities way beyond just plopping an icon onto a worksheet. We ask students to analyze how characters change, upgrading boring research questions, and building structured thinking with frames.

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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.