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Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Demonstration to Show Mobile Phones Emit Radio Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a very simple and cheap device that demonstrates that mobile phones generate radio waves.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Mla Sample Research Paper (Daly) [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a seven-page PDF of an MLA style research paper entitled "A Call to Action: Regulate Use of Cell Phones on the Road" by Angela Daly. It is provided as a positive example of a research paper in MLA style. The MLA style information...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Cell Phone Novels: 140 Characters at a Time

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Cell phone novels are short stories designed to be read on cellular telephones. This article examines the Japanese trend and its potential in America.
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Professional Doc
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Respond to Student Writing: Cell Phones

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Use an interactive rubric to evaluate areas of strengths and weaknesses in a student's essay on cell phone use in schools. Then compare your responses to another teacher's.
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Article
Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Demonstration of Radio Waves Generated by Mobile Phone

For Students 9th - 10th
Described is a simple low cost home-made device that converts the radio wave energy from a mobile phone signal into electricity to light an LED. No battery or complex circuitry is required. The device can form the basis of a range of...
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Lesson Plan
Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Being Smart With Your Smartphone

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
The lesson plan is designed for teachers to use with 8-11 year olds to help them understand that it is possible to spend real money through their phones, recognize how this can happen and avoid it. The lesson plan will help young people...
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Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Connecting With Digital Audiences

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Code-switching is the action of changing your language, behavior, or appearance based on who you're with or where you are. In this lesson, students will apply the idea of code-switching to how they use phones and other devices in and...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Using Cellphones and Computers to Transmit Information

For Teachers 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about changes in communication after computers and cell phones. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Other

Smart Motorist: 15 Most Common Causes of Car Accidents: Tips for Prevention

For Students 9th - 10th
Research shows 90% of car accidents are due to human error. Read about the top 15 most common causes and how to mitigate them.
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Other

E Cycle Best: Man & His Mobile: A Toxic Relationship

For Students 9th - 10th
The cell phones have dramatically changed our way of life but at what cost? Learn the cons to these powerful machines in this article.
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Website
Other

Kidsmart: Mobiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your online safety knowledge about use of your mobile phone. Do you know what the consequences could be when sending a text, picture, or video from your phone? Here, you can learn some great tips and find out what could happen.
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PBS

Pbs Nova: The Stuff of Smartphones

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive explores the anatomy of a smartphone showing the materials and technology involved in making one while questioning what environmental impact the phones will have in the future.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Career Profile: Electrical and Electronics Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the many pathways available to one who has a career as an electrical or electronics engineer. Design video games, cell phones, GPS systems, anything that requires electricity to work. This Science Buddies site lays out the...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Wave Blockers

For Students 3rd - 5th
What do the radio, TV, radio controlled cars, and cell phones all have in common? They all use invisible waves to transmit information. Find out which materials block radio waves, and which materials allow radio waves to pass through in...
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Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Hi Tech Fabric Charges Devices on the Run

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about an innovative technology in fabric that allows users to generate enough electricity through movement to charge devices such as cell phones. Includes video.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Shape Shifting Future of the Mobile Phone

For Students 9th - 10th
Fabian Hemmert demos one future of the mobile phone- a shape-shifting and weight-shifting handset that "displays" information nonvisually, offering a delightfully intuitive way to communicate. [4:15]
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Other

Wireless Advisor: How to Choose Your Wireless Phone Company

For Students 9th - 10th
Six steps to selecting your wireless service include deciding when and where you are going to use your phone, deciding on a plan, and signing up for service.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Issues: Texting While Driving

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the issue of texting while driving; it features links to articles and a video about the dangers of texting and other distractions while driving and a teen survey with their attitudes on the subject. Students read...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Summer [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"Summer" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a mother and her two children traveling from the city to the country to visit her parents for the summer. They discuss the modern conveniences they have now like cell phones and...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Today's Telephone [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"Today's Telephone" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the history of telephones from the telegraph, to land-lines, to cell phones. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Today's Telephone [Pdf]

For Teachers 7th Standards
"Today's Telephone" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the history of the telephone from the telegraph to land-lines, to cell phones. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it...
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Website
Other

Digizen: Cyberbullying: Let's Fight It Together

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Video tells the story of a young teenager who is subjected to cyberbullying-repeated hostile, harmful, and harassing attacks directed at individuals though technological means (Internet, mobile phones, social networking sites)....
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interesting lesson which allows learners to relate more fully to this work of Shakespeare by rewriting and recreating scenes with modern, digital devices in mind (cell phones, computers, etc.). Excellent and interactive lesson plan.
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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: New York Times Upfront: Growing Up Digital

For Students 9th - 10th
Many people are wondering about the ramifications of the digital age on the digital generation. Will the cell phones, Facebook, YouTube, computer generation be harmed in any way? Is this technology hurting students or actually enabling...