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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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American Public Media

American Radio Works: White House Tapes

For Students 9th - 10th
American RadioWorks does an overview of the 19th and 20th century Presidents and their use of taping conversations in the Oval Office and on their phones. Copies of some of these tapes are available as well as the audio of an hour long...
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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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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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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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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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Curated OER

Short Courses: Camera Phones

For Students 9th - 10th
Exploring the world of the camera phone, its manufacturers and color displays, are the main bits of information discussed of this short course.
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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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Other

Wireless Advisor: Analog, Digital: What's the Difference?

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the differences, disadvantages, and advantages of both an analog and a digital phone.
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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: How Many Numbers Can You Remember?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Most people don't even remember phone numbers anymore, and instead program them into their phones. There is a limit to the number of numbers, or digits, that most people can remember. Try this experiment to test your digit span, 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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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Remote Control Using Bluetooth

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Building on what they learned about wired and wireless electrical connections in the associated lesson, students use Android phones to take advantage of Bluetooth wireless connections to remotely guide LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots through...
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Other

Net2 Phone

For Students 9th - 10th
Net2Phone is a software program that allows you to make free phone calls from your PC.
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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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Dialing Ben

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students try to discover if there has been a significant change in cell phone use over the course of ten days. If so, this "change point" can be detected by creating a line of...
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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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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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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...
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Other

Technology Review: Pervasive Wireless

For Students 9th - 10th
A very interesting article discussing the development of embedded wireless technology, where everyday devices, from cell phones to cars to heart monitors, are able to communicate seamlessly and automatically.

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