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Depth and Complexity: ⚖️ Ethics and 👓 Multiple Perspectives
In this section, we introduce two more prompts of depth and complexity: ⚖️ ethics and 👓 multiple perspectives.
Depth and Complexity: 🌀Patterns and 🚦Rules
In this section, we’ll learn about two more prompts of Depth and Complexity that pair beautifully: Rules and Patterns. Because they share some similarities, I like to introduce them together and lean heavily on what makes Rules and Patterns different.
Depth and Complexity: 🏛️Big Idea and 🌻Details
When introducing the prompts of Depth and Complexity, I like to begin with Big Idea and Details. Here are some ways you could get started with these two thinking tools.
Depth and Complexity: Ethics… In Math!?
The Ethics prompt of depth and complexity fits so easily into the humanities… but what about ethics in math?!
Misconceptions About 🏛️ Big Idea
Big Idea is often the first prompt of Depth and Complexity that I introduce to students. That does not mean, however, that it is basic or less sophisticated than the other prompts.
When Too Much “Depth” Leads To Simplicity
Here’s the most common mistake I’ve seen in implementing Depth and Complexity. And I made it too!
The Least Popular Depth and Complexity Prompt
Last month, I asked which prompt of Depth and Complexity you’d get rid of. The results were pretty unanimous…
Building Sequences of Questions with Depth and Complexity
Understanding how to move students from abstract to specific and back again is a key to differentiating for the gifted. Reading through a pal’s dissertation gave me a new way of applying this to Depth and Complexity…
Depth, Complexity, and Graphic Organizers
Layer the prompts of Depth and Complexity onto any graphic organizer to increase the level of thinking required of your students.