freeGifted Education
Depth & Complexity Thinking Challenge
Push past surface answers with the lenses experts use to think.
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- Grade level
- Grades 3–5
- Category
- Gifted Education
- Resource type
- Activity
Students use Depth & Complexity prompts — big ideas, patterns, rules, ethics and multiple perspectives — to analyze a topic like a disciplinary expert.
What Students Will Do
- → Pick a topic and examine it through four thinking lenses
- → Find patterns and unanswered questions
- → Defend a big idea with evidence
Skills & Learning Goals
- ◆ Abstract reasoning
- ◆ Multiple perspectives
- ◆ Academic vocabulary
Teacher Information
Works as an anchor activity or enrichment station. 30–45 minutes. SAMPLE resource.