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Depth and Complexity Lessons
That Challenge and Delight

Your students will argue about ethics, analyze broken pattern, and ask questions you didn’t expect. Byrdseed.TV makes it happen without you spending your weekend building lessons.

Depth and Complexity: ⚖️ Ethics
Depth and Complexity: ⚖️ Ethics
Want to add drama to any topic? Use the Ethics prompt!
Student Introductions With Depth and Frames
Student Introductions With Depth and Frames
Want to introduce the tools of Depth and Complexity and learn more about your students and introduce the Frame graphic organizer? Have I got the activity for you!
Upgrade Research Questions With Depth and Complexity
Upgrade Research Questions With Depth and Complexity
Ever ask students to create research questions? Were their ideas a bit… blah? My own students had a very hard time writing questions they didn’t already know the answer to! This video is how I solved that problem: upgrade research questions with depth and complexity.
Gr 1-8

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Lessons and activities you can use today that build on the Depth and Complexity Icons! Introduce the icons to your students. But also learn to integrate them into your lessons.

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I’m Ian Byrd. I co-wrote the book on Depth and Complexity with Lisa Van Gemert and I’ve been building D&C video lessons at Byrdseed.TV since 2009.