Unlock Thinking Power with the Depth & Complexity Task Card Bundle! 🧠📚
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240 Pages | Perfect for Gifted & Advanced Elementary Learners (Grades 1–5)
Looking for a ready-to-use way to challenge and stretch your students’ thinking? This comprehensive Depth & Complexity Teacher Guide + 11 Task Card Sets gives you everything you need to infuse higher-order thinking into every subject—all year long!
What’s Inside
âś… The Teacher Guide
- Clear introduction to all 11 Depth & Complexity icons
- Student-friendly definitions + anchor questions
- Icon-by-icon graphic organizers
- Lesson tips, examples, and differentiation strategies
✅ 11 Task Card Sets — 24 Cards per Icon!
Each set dives deep into one icon with open-ended prompts that promote critical thinking, creativity, and interdisciplinary learning.
Icons Covered:
- Big Ideas – “What’s this REALLY about?”
- Details – “Tiny Clues, Big Picture”
- Patterns – “What Repeats and Why?”
- Rules – “What Makes This Work?”
- Language of the Discipline – “Talk Like an Expert”
- Ethics – “What Should They Do?”
- Over Time – “What Changed and What Stayed?”
- Multiple Perspectives – “Who Sees This Differently?”
- Trends – “Where Is This Going?”
- Across Disciplines – “How Do Subjects Connect?”
- Unanswered Questions – “What Don’t We Know Yet?”
âś… BONUS: Icon Card Set
Visual reminder cards to use on anchor charts, in centers, or in journals—building metacognition and a shared academic language.
Why It Helps
- Encourages deep, structured thinking across all content areas
- Builds a common critical thinking language in your classroom
- Perfect for differentiation—students can tackle prompts at their own level
- Designed with gifted learners in mind, but engaging for all students
How to Use It
- As warm-ups, exit tickets, or journal prompts
- In small groups, centers, or whole-class discussions
- To differentiate assignments across reading, writing, math, science, and social studies
- For long-term projects and inquiry-based learning
➡️ Download the Depth & Complexity Task Card Bundle today and give your students the tools to think deeper, connect ideas, and uncover meaning across disciplines!