Summer End-of-Year Depth and Complexity Low-Prep Activity Pack
Looking for a wide selection of low-prep end-of-year Summer activities for your gifted and talented (and all!) students that use the Depth & Complexity framework? This differentiated activity pack has fab Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science activities, all in one great resource perfect for 4th grade through 8th grade. You'll find Summer writing prompts, fiction and non-fiction pieces to read, a Depth and Complexity frame to complete, a science escape room, and much, much more!
If you like celebrating holidays with quality activities and not filler fluff, you're going to love this. Students will gain a deep understanding of interesting aspects of the season of Summer while they grow critical thinking skills.
What you get:
⭐ Two versions of "The River Bank" - the first chapter of "Wind in the Willows"
⭐ An audio version to support readers
⭐ Analysis questions in list and task-card formats for discussion or written response
⭐ An original non-fiction passage
⭐ A bingo game to check for understanding of the non-fiction piece (print OR online)
⭐ Four short-answer writing prompts with rubric
⭐ A how-to essay writing prompt with graphic organizer, revision activity, and a rubric
⭐ Two fabulous image analysis activities that will captivate your students
⭐ A Summer Depth and Complexity frame with image analysis and rubric
⭐ Summer Beach science escape room with four fun challenges
⭐ Fabulous instructions and ideas and rubrics
You may use any or all of the activities. Mix and match!
✅ If you've been looking for a quality end-of-year Summer activities to use with students, this is the answer!
You will find it incredibly easy to have students engage in high-level thinking activities and practice critical skills while gaining a deeper understanding and appreciation of Summer.
✅ If you've been looking for a quality end-of-year activity to use with students, this is the answer!
When and How to Use this Summer Resource:
✔ The activities are designed to be done as a class, but they'd make great centers, too!
✔ They're flexible - use one or all!
✔ Most of the activities are VERY low-prep, so use them when you're in a hurry
✔ You'll LOVE the variety for your different ability learners, so if you love differentiation, it's perfect!
Frequently Asked Questions:
- Do I have to be a Depth and Complexity expert to use this? Absolutely not! You can have students ignore the Depth & Complexity symbols if you like, or you can mention that it's a way to think deeply about something. You can dive right in to the Framework if you like. No matter what you choose to do, the resource will work for you.
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I have heard that some teachers didn't have time to do all of the activities in the Depth and Complexity Activity Pack. There are so many options! There is no need to do them all, so no pressure. Because there are Summer Depth and Complexity activities from three core content areas, there is more than you could use in one year unless you're having different students work on different pieces. All pieces work perfectly alone or in combination, so feel comfortable using whatever you like.
NOTES:
✔️This product assumes familiarity with the Depth & Complexity framework, but if you don't use it, you can just ignore the symbols.
✔️There are two pages of special helps for using the resource in Google Classroom™. Not all of the pages are in the Google Slides version because they're teacher resources or black and white versions.
❤️ POWER UP THE END OF THE YEAR WITH THESE DEPTH & COMPLEXITY RESOURCES:
☀️ Depth and Complexity End of Year Venn Diagrams
☀️ Depth and Complexity End of Year Writing Prompts
☀️ Depth and Complexity End of Year Frames
Terms of Use
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