PBL Pathways
Cell Phones
Calling all subscribers! Model revenue based on individual cell phone subscribers. The project-based learning activity presents a challenge to scholars from a cell phone company. Individuals model data provided to them from the company...
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What Can I Afford?
Middle schoolers explore the costs of various cell phone plans, and various types of banking accounts to determine which one would yield the highest returns if the money saved from the cell phones were placed in different accounts.
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Risks and Benefits
Students research and discuss the risks and benefits of cell phones and driving. They analyze the mechanical and administrative causes of the accident of the Space Shuttle Challenger. They write an essay explaining the risks and benefits...
Radford University
Translating and Evaluating Cell Phone Plans
Translate phone plans to algebraic expressions. Pupils review translating verbal phrases to algebraic expressions by filling out graphic organizers and completing matching activities. Using a fictitious cell phone company, they create...
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The Cell Phone Age
What kid isn't interested in Cell phones? They are technical and to operate them you must read an informational text. Older elementary learners read an informational text, match vocabulary words with their meanings, and create sentences...
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
Cell Phone Use and Cancer
The cell phone you're using is making you deaf: news at 11:00. Oftentimes, the media uses fear tactics and other techniques to increase its audience base. In an intriguing look at the difference between scientific journals and...
Exploratorium
Pixels, Pictures, and Phones
Take a real close look at your phone screen. What do you see? Here's an activity that provides guidance on how to look at a smart phone screen in order to see the pixels and to see how the phone creates colors and motion on the screen.
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Algebra- Cell Phone Plans
High schoolers analyze graphs to compare cell phone plans. In this algebra lesson, students work together to analyze phone plans and report the best phone plan. High schoolers develop tables and graphs.
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Cell Phones
Your texters will enjoy assessing their knowledge of function notation in this simple set of exercises. They will also interpret function notation in terms of the given context.
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All The Bell & Whistles
Young adults are so eager to get that first cell phone. And, cell phones have so many cool extras! Learners conduct real-life research to determine which cell phone carrier offers the best deals on things like wall paper, ringtones, and...
NASA
From Smoke Signals to Cell Phones: Tracing How Technologies Evolve
Explore the science of space exploration. Pupils consider technological advances in propulsion, communication, power, navigation, and imaging. They select one of these areas and create a timeline of historical progress that contributed...
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The Problems With Cellphones
Learners read a news article about cell phones and identify continuous tense verbs, gerunds and infinitives in the article. They discuss cell phone use.
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Deciphering Your Cell Phone Bill
You just got your first cell phone bill, but what does it all mean? Clear up the confusion for your young consumers as they break down and itemize a cell phone bill to better understand what they are paying for and why. This type of...
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Ethical Issues Around Cell Phone Use
Young scholars explore the appropriate usage of cell phones. In this cell phone etiquette instructional activity, students examine how cell phone features may be use ethically and discuss compromises to privacy through the use of cell...
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Number of Cell phones in Use Per Household
In this cell phones worksheet, students study a bar graph of the number of cell phones usage in households. Students answer 5 questions about the graph.
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What argument?
For this argument worksheet, students pick different sides to be on for different arguments and conduct a debate on topics such as Facebook, mobile phones in schools, and more. Students conduct debates for 7 topics and fill out other...
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Journalism: Technology and Teen Abuse
Young scholars investigate the link between technology and abuse among teens. They research dating abuse when cell phones or the Internet are involved. Working as a team of reporters, photographers, graphic artists, and page designers,...
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Which Number Should I Call?
Who do you call if you spot someone littering? What if you see a fire? Who should you contact if the garbage truck does not arrive? Find out with a 13-question worksheet equipped with scenarios for scholars to read and decide which of...
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Two-Cell Battery
Students build their own two-cell battery and determine which electrolyte solution is best suited for making a battery. They discuss background information for their experiment, construct and test their battery, and using the chart on...
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Know Your Telephone
Young scholars describe the parts of a cell phone and role-play a phone call to a customer service representative. They compare/contrast the price of owning and using a cell phone in the U.S. and Venezuela.
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Seeing Cells
Students discuss what comes to mind when they hear the term cell and discuss what a cell is in biological terms. They look at pictures of cells and color a picture of a cell diagram, writing the job of each part as they go. After the...
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Comp Tech: Format Cells Scavenger Hunt
Students begin their use of Microsoft Excel. Individually, they practice using the program, formatting cells and changing the appearance of the spreadsheet. To end the lesson, they participate in a scavenger hunt completing different...
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What Can I Afford?
Students explore the concept of cell phone plans. In this cell phone plan instructional activity, students research the cost of cell phones. Students compare various cell phone plans and decide on which phone plan is best for them.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Over the Hill
Can you hear me from there? Pupils determine the place to build a cell tower on a hill. The class uses constraints and creates a scale drawing on a coordinate system to calculate the exact location of the base of the cell tower.
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