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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Exploring Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity introduces students to Activity Center. In this activity, students will explore change in the context of cellular telephone charges. Students will create a scatter plot showing that the rate per minute for a "pay as you go"...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Promoting Environmental Awareness Through Culture and Exploration

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this instructional activity, the story of Turtle Island is told to the students. Each student will collect leaves and bring one to school, every day, for about a month. Discuss as a class where they come from and why they are all...
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Activity
Other

Women in Military Service for America Memorial: World War I: Women and the War

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief look at the many roles women played at home and overseas during World War I. Besides being nurses, women worked as telephone operators, and in transportation. Read how their service enhanced the women's movement.
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Website
Other

Ntt East: Super Media Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Japanese content! Educates students about telephone and Internet media. It includes information about networks, ecology, connecting classrooms to the Internet, using the internet, and an interactive quiz. It also has worksheets for...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Tale of Text Messages: A Character Study of a Tale of Two Cities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students engage in a character study of the numerous figures created by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. They compare and contrast several forms of communication: email, text message, and telephone; complete a character study...
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Handout
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Pbs: Moyers on Addiction: Help and Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
This link from PBS will connect you to a page listing organizations that service individuals with an addiction. Their telephone numbers and websites are provided. At the top of this page questions are answered regarding the diagnosis of...
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Website
Other

The Lumpkin Foundation of Illinois

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Funded by the founders and family of the Illinois Consolidated Telephone Company, this foundation offers grants to non-profit organizations, "principally in East Central Illinois. Learn about grant requirements and the application...
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Article
OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Message Drums

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How did various cultures communicate before the invention of the telephone, email or telegraph? Discover the use of message drums in this lesson plan.
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Website
BBC

Bbc Education: Languages: Deutsch Plus

For Students 9th - 10th
This web site complements the BBC's 20-part "Talk German" TV series. German grammar and vocabulary are introduced by way of topics and themes which include shopping, using the telephone, telling time, travelling, and sports. Listen to...
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Activity
Other

I Am Special: Yo Soy Especial

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Dynamic site for teachers who have Spanish ESL students. Activities for students to strengthen basic concepts such as writing their own name, address and telephone number. It offers Spanish and English capability. Downloads provided.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Inventions: Then and Now

For Students 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about popular inventions and how they have changed throughout the year, including: the telephone, the calculator, the television, and the clock. A question sheet is available to...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Satisfaction Please! (Part 3)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Even the savviest consumer has a problem with a good or service on occasion. It is a consumer's right to complain when there is a genuine problem. In some situations, it is also a consumer's responsibility. A problem can't be fixed if no...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Satisfaction Please! (Part 2)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Even the savviest consumer has a problem with a good or service on occasion. It is a consumer's right to complain when there is a genuine problem. In some situations, it is also a consumer's responsibility. A problem can't be fixed if no...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Satisfaction Please! (Part I)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Even the savviest consumer has a problem with a good or service on occasion. It is a consumer's right to complain when there is a genuine problem. In some situations, it is also a consumer's responsibility. A problem can't be fixed if no...
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Website
Other

Doctor of Dentistry (Dds) Programs Graduate Programs in East u.s.a.

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a list which includes names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers. Some include Peterson's in-depth description of the school's programs, costs, financial aid available and more.
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eBook
Libre Text

Libre Texts: Physics: Early Quantum Mechanics

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of quantum mechanics which begins with why they are important and wraps up with an accident at Bell Telephone labs in 1925. Find several theories and formulas.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Count on It!: Episode 207 Blossom and Snappy Learn About Utilities

For Students K - 1st Standards
Blossom and Snappy help Robbie prepare for a dinner party. They make a decorative centerpiece out of postage stamps. In order to help Robbie, they decide to pay her bills for her. In doing this, Blossom and Snappy visit and learn about...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: How United Flight 93 Passengers Fought Back on 9/11

For Students 9th - 10th
The cockpit voice recorder captured the sound of passengers attempting to break through the door. Like the three other planes hijacked on September 11, Flight 93 was overtaken by al-Qaeda intent on crashing it into the White House or the...
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Handout
PBS

American Experience: Technology Timeline: 1752 1990

For Students 9th - 10th
Short descriptions of important technological innovations produced in America and the date of their introduction.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Technology Timeline 1750 1990

For Students 3rd - 8th
Did you ever wonder who invented something, and when it was invented? Go to this interactive timeline that highlights inventors/inventions from 1750-1990. Click on the topic to read a brief paragraph about that invention.
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Article
Other

Live Career: Proper Phone Interview Etiquette Can Propel You to the Next Step

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Although targeted at those doing phone interviews as part of a job search, the etiquette tips in this article would serve a journalist well. Focus on contact, follow-up, and how to seem organized and prepared.
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Website
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography is a great resource for information on Alexander Graham Bell. Includes links for additional information also.
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Article
College Grad

College Grad: Phone Interviewing Success

For Students 9th - 10th
It's not "Just another phone call,"--it's a real interview. Prepare properly so that it's not your last and you can secure the job you are looking for!
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Handout
Other

Market Connections: Research Faq

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page offers explanations of research methods and how they work. Though aimed at businesses, it provides good information about conducting school research as well.

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