Changes, Perspectives, Ethics
Grades K-12
Big Idea- Change Over Time
Change Over Time: This icon guides students to think about a concept, event, or person as it relates to time. Students explore how and why things change or don't change. Change over time is one of three icons under the Complexity section of the Depth and Complexity framework. Click here for icon and information page.
Big Idea- Multiple Perspectives
This icon guides students to think about different points of view on ideas, events, and issues. Essentially it is putting oneself into another's shoes. Multiple Perspectives is dependent on time and place and is another icon that falls under the Complexity section of the Depth and Complexity framework. Click here for icon and information page.
Big Idea- Ethics
This icon prompts students to consider the moral principles. It represents the conflicting views of an event, topic, or idea. It guides students to think about bias, values and judgements. Click here for icon and information page.
Directions
1. Define: use synonyms, antonyms, and symbol
2. Relate: make it personal and activate background knowledge
3. Integrate: use real world current events
4. Apply: link to new learning
Introducing Depth & Complexity: Episode One
When To Use-Change Over Time
- Describe the topic over time
- Judge with criteria
- Identify relationships of a topic and different time periods
- Determine relevance of knowing this topic over time
- Differentiate fact from opinion (over time)
When To Use- Multiple Perspectives
- Describe (the perspectives)
- Prioritize (the most important perspectives)
- Identify relationships (among perspectives)
- Determine relevance of various points of view
- Judge with criteria (the various points of view)
When To Use-Ethics
- Determine bias
- Prioritize (the most important ethical issues)
- Identify relationships (among the ethical issues)
- Determine relevance
- Judge with criteria (the ethical issue)
- Distinguish fact from opinion or fantasy
- Test assumptions
Strategy Variations
Combining Thinking
This chart shows a combination of Multiple Perspectives and Ethics sentence starters. Photo Credit: Pinterest
Multiple Perspectives
Analyze literature using multiple perspective. Each side of the glasses are how different characters would view the situation. Photo Credit: Pinterest
Ethics
A visual representation of the ethical issues Paul Revere faced during his rides. Photo Credit: Pinterest