Interactive
Mr. Nussbaum

Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
An interactive practice challenges scholars to read an informational text then answer nine questions. The topic of the text is Alexander Graham Bell. Questions are a mix of multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Does a Cell Phone Conversation Affect Reaction Time?

For Students 9th - 10th
Does talking on a cell phone make one a more dangerous driver? Here is an experiment you can do to investigate whether reaction time is adversely affected by a simultaneous phone conversation.
Article
Federal Trade Commission

Federal Trade Commission: Prepaid Phone Cards

For Students 9th - 10th
This article might help students avoid the problems often associated with prepaid phone cards.
Primary
Other

American Poems: Rotary

For Students 9th - 10th
This fifteen-stanza poem shares a meditation on the old rotary phone.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Do We Separate the Seemingly Inseparable?

For Students 9th - 10th
Your cell phone is mainly made of plastics and metals. It's easy to appreciate the process by which those elements add up to something so useful. But there's another story we don't hear about- how did we get our raw ingredients in the...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Strength in Numbers?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Ever try to tear a telephone book in half? Even though you can easily rip one or a few pages to shreds, the entire phone book has strength in numbers and holds together. This project is an introduction to measuring and comparing the...
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...
Lesson Plan
Other

The Design Museum: Can You Redesign an Object to Make It Easier to Use?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Grant Douglas has cerebral palsy and needs assistance to eat. While he was sitting at home being fed cornflakes by his mum, the phone rang. She answered it and as she talked, Grant could see his cornflakes getting soggier and soggier....
Unit Plan
Geographypods

Geographypods: Global Interactions: Changing Space the Shrinking World

For Students 11th - 12th
This learning module examines how the world has become smaller as time and space have converged. Transportation is much faster, making places more accessible, goods can be more quickly and easily transported, and the Internet connects...
Unit Plan
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Beyond Email

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the various ways beyond email of communicating and sharing online.
Article
Scholastic

Scholastic News: Transformers Come to Life

For Students 3rd - 8th
This article describes Kuratas, a 13 foot tall Japanese robot that can be operated by a human pilot or remotely via a 3G touch phone.
Article
Other

Usa Study Guide: American Customs and Habits

For Students 9th - 10th
Concise information on American customs and habits aimed at older students. With coverage on meeting new people, introductions, speaking on the phone, eating out, tipping, and smoking. Also includes extensive internal links to other...
Article
Smithsonian Institution

Tween Tribune: Obama Invites Trump to Meet, Congratulates Him on Victory

For Students 4th - 8th
A brief article about the call from the sitting President Obama to the President-Elect, Trump. Know the few phone calls that were exchanged when it was clear who the winner of Election 2016 would be.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F if the Customers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a beginning lesson on the concept of functions. The context is a business that has a database of customer names and phone numbers in a table and students must decide if a function is involved. Aligns with F-IF.A.1 and 8.F.A.1.
Unit Plan
Learn My Way

Learn My Way: Using a Touchscreen

For Students 1st - 7th
In this online course, students will learn about how to use a touchscreen on a mobile phone or tablet computer. The course will cover basic and more advanced touchscreen controls.
Website
National Museum of Science and Industry (UK)

Ingenious: Do We Need the Telephone?

For Students 9th - 10th
The telephone has been a marvelous technological invention. Its successes, failures, and consequences are looked at in this website.
Handout
US Department of Education

Oeri Publications Guide: Dashes and Hyphens [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article contains information regarding the em-dash, the en-dash, and hyphens. Many examples are included. Site is extremely detailed and thorough.
Website
PBS

Pbs: News Hour Extra: Video Clip Board: The Teen Brain on Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
All of the newest technologies can be going on at one time - Facebook, texting, homework online, talking with friends on the computer. However, what are the consequences of this technological multi-tasking? Here is a video that discusses...
Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
Get to know Alexander Graham Bell, the scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first telephone.
Graphic
Other

E Cycle Best: The Metamorphosis: From Rotary Dials to Smartphones

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how a rotary phone transformed into the smartphones we have today in this article.

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