Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
5.0 (292 reviews)Teach your students with depth and complexity!This “Mega Bundle” contains 8 of my best selling resources that are designed to elicit critical thinking. $65.00 if purchased separately; Save over 30%! Click on the links below for detailed information on each of the 9 resources that are included in t
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Teach your students with depth and complexity!
This “Mega Bundle” contains 8 of my best selling resources that are designed to elicit critical thinking. $65.00 if purchased separately; Save over 30%! Click on the links below for detailed information on each of the 9 resources that are included in this bundle. Two versions–with and without icons–are now included!!
IMPORTANT: This bundle has changed. Please read through the product description carefully and check out the links below to see exactly what is included.
Depth and Complexity Task Cards for Literature
Depth and Complexity Task Cards for Science
Depth and Complexity Task Cards for Social Studies
Teach Depth and Complexity Using Fairytales
Depth and Complexity Thinking Mats
Depth and Complexity Literature Circles
Depth and Complexity Mini-Books
Depth and Complexity Literary Response Booklet
Depth and Complexity Literary Lapbooks
These resources were created based on the Depth and Complexity framework, which was developed by Dr. Sandra Kaplan under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement: 1996
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Not appropriate for beginning of the year
This is very hard for me to implement until almost the third quarter. Week one has decimals, and my fourth graders don't learn about decimals until the third quarter. It also jumps into division and bigger multiplication early. I wish it had a few weeks of third-grade review.
Affixes Resource Pack
This was not exactly what I was looking for for a supplemental resource for my 5th grade class.
Not a "spiral" review
I wanted to like this so much because it was exactly what I wanted. But, Week 1 already starts talking about coordinate grids and volume, standards that aren't covered until later on in the school year. I wish it was organized by the order the standards are taught throughout the school year instead of introducing end-of-year concepts in the first few weeks.
Great Activities, but Limited Direct Instruction
This resource is advertised as a week-long unit, but in practice it functions more like one day of direct instruction followed by several activity days. There is only one PowerPoint for teaching, with the remaining materials focused on practice.
I expected a more balanced structure with instruction and assessment spread across multiple days. For example, I was able to use the PowerPoint and the second day’s worksheet within a single class period, and the “scoot” activity worked well for a separate day. However, I’m unsure how I’ll incorporate the remaining sketch notes, which might have been more effective if directly integrated into the initial instruction.
One major area for improvement is alignment between instruction and assessment. The assessments and task cards include concepts like “to be” verbs and auxiliary verbs, but these are not introduced or modeled in the PowerPoint. This created confusion for my students and could easily be developed into an additional day of instruction.
Overall, the materials are well-designed and engaging, but the unit would benefit from more comprehensive instruction and clearer alignment between teaching and assessment.
This starts off Running
I thought the assessments would get progressively harder but I do not feel I could start these assessments with my students week 1. I may be able to start them mid year
Questions & Answers (15)
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Do you have a few pictures of a completed literary lap book that you could share with me?
Hello Julie. I only have the images that are included in the instruction pages for each foldable.
Is this going to be beneficial for 4th through 8th grade GATE students?
Thanks for reaching out! Yes, absolutely! I know of several GATE teachers that use this!
Would you be open to making a bundle of just the icons in color and black and white?
Hello. We do not have plans to create these separately at this time, but you can print them in black and white.
I saw your response in 2017 about not intending to make these digital and am asking again as we are fully remote for at least our first quarter and would love this as a resource!
Hi Myriah. We don’t have plans to create digital versions of these resources at this time. You are allowed to adapt the current resources to use online with just your students, however.
Purchased the mega bundle a few years ago and love it, any chance that any of the resources will be made digital anytime soon?
Hi Karla! I don't have immediate plans for a digital versions, at this time. Thank you for asking.
Hi. Would this be good for 3rd grade as well? Thank you.
Hello! Many of the resources can be adapted for third grade, but to be honest, I don't think the entire bundle will be appropriate. You might want to start with the Fairytales resource, and then see what you think. You can always buy a few items and then if you decide you want to entire bundle later, you can buy it and tpt will give you a refund for the individual items.
I love all of your resources! I bought the Critical Thinking Mats, and Book Club files earlier this year, but I realized now that there is a bundle where those are included. I was wondering if I buy the bundle, is there anyway I could be pro-rated or would I just pay for those files twice? (Hopefully that makes sense!) Thank you for all of your hard work - anything I buy from you, I know will be high quality/high-level thinking for my students!
Thanks! Kristin
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Hi Kristin! If you buy the bundle, I can initiate a refund for the Thinking Mats and Book Club. Just email after you purchase the bundle with your username and dates of purchased of the Thinking Mats and Book Club. GotToTeach@icloud.com
This looks great! My students loved the depth and complexity questions for Hatchet. We are about to start The Westing Game, so I was going to see if I could apply your literature circle questions in my lessons. Do you have a blog? I would love to see how you use these and all of the other items in this bundle!
Hi Sara! Thank you. I do have a blog but it does not focus on Depth and Complexity. The literature circles and task cards can work with any book. In fact, I have had many teachers use them with The Westing Game. Great book! www.GotToTeach.com
I answered my own question! Sorry! (Edited)
No worries. Email me if you have any questions. GotToTeach@icloud.com
Will you be making any Depth and Complexity Cards for Math?? Thanks! :)
Hi Angie. At this time I do not have plans to make anymore DC resources. Thank you for your interest, though.
