Purposeful Teaching Tools

Color your own “All About Me” Depth and Complexity Pennants! This is a fun and creative way to apply Depth and Complexity Icons and a student-centered approach to decorating your classroom for Back to School Night, Open House, or all year long! A unique approach to your Student of the Week projects! Students enjoy completing this creative and fun project as a wonderful “Get to know you” activity in the beginning of the year (or any time of the year)! Perfect for decorating your GATE classro

Complete your own “All About Me,” “All About Our Classroom,” “All About My Family,” and “All About This Book,” Depth and Complexity Posters! This is a fun and creative way to teach and apply Depth and Complexity Icons as students share about themselves, their classrooms, their families, and any of the non-fiction books they’ve read. An innovative and Common Core friendly approach to having students complete posters for Student of the Week, Beginning of the Year, Student Inventory, and Book Repo

Use for a variety of student and grade level needs! Choose the one that fits your grade level/teaching goal for each Depth and Complexity lesson! The 4 Depth and Complexity Frames Included: 1) Blank NO LINES (for drawing illustrations) 2) Some Lines & Empty Space (for pictures and some words) 3) Just Lines (for writing sentences, no pictures) 4) Lines with request for Pg. #s (for referencing text and writing explanations). - Also includes teaching suggestions. Background knowledge and trainin

Depth and Complexity Prompts Note Taking Cards for teaching Common Core State Standards and/or GATE! Use D&C Prompts to guide students to think critically about everything they are learning about in the classroom. Use them in Literature Units, Guided Reading, Literature Circles, Mathematics Groups, Social Studies, and Science! Aligned with Common Core State Standards! Students fill in the note-taking card with a specific example to fit the Icon represented and there is a space for recordin

This product is a perfect tool for students to use to record their thinking during STEM / STEAM activities in your Depth and Complexity using class. If you are already doing various STEM/STEAM activities (or plan to), these recording sheets will be a great resource to use as you guide your students in the engineering and design thinking process using Depth and Complexity Icons! Use these D&C STEM Recording Sheets before, during, and after each of your Design Thinking or Design Challenges. (