Getting Started with Depth and Complexity

Depth and Complexity is a powerful, but often misunderstood, framework for teaching students to think more like experts.

Combine higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy with the prompts of Depth and Complexity!

Learn to use the Content Imperatives, a set of five additional tools that work with Depth and Complexity.

The Frame graphic organizer is a tool for studying one topic using four different angles.

Here’s how I got better at using the Think Like An Expert technique.

I spent about a decade making some pretty major mistakes in my use of depth and complexity.

Universal Themes are an easy way to connect lessons, units, and content areas, even going across grade levels, and into students’ personal interests.

Let’s see a few examples of how Depth and Complexity slides nicely into any graphic organizer.

For too long, I let my students turn in blah Big Ideas. Here’s how I fixed it.