E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Worksheet 8: Smart Phones
This is a PDF worksheet that provides six reading passages related to smart phones to help your students master text structure (patterns of organization) in informational text. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds
New York Times
New York Times: What Students Are Saying About How Much They Use Their Phones, and Whether We Should Be Worried
New research challenges assumptions about the negative effects of social media and smartphones on children. Reporters asked teenagers whether their parents should worry about how much time they spend on their devices. This article...
ProCon.org
Pro Con: Cell Phones: Are Cell Phones Safe?
Website explores the pro con argument of the safety and risks associated with cell phone use.
Read Works
Read Works: News Debate Cell Phone Scramble
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether students should or should not be allowed to use cell phones in class. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: News Debate Tough Cell
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether or not students should be allowed to use cell phones in school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Poll Everywhere: Live Audience Polling
Take polls in your school or classroom, church or team with "Poll Everywhere" by using cell phones or the web. 30 votes a month are free, there are fees for any more than that.
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Global Change: Mobile Phone Radiation
A video of Patrick Dixon explaining the possible dangers of radiation from mobile phones and a list of recent findings related to the controversy over whether or not mobile phone radiation causes damage to the brain, thereby increasing...
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Being Smart With Your Smartphone
The instructional activity 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 instructional activity...
New York Times
New York Times: School Cell Phone Ban Violates Rights
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read about the 2006 legal controversy surrounding a New York City school system ban on student cell phones, and learn why many parents and students object to these bans.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Mla Sample Research Paper (Daly) [Pdf]
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...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Choosing the Best Cell Phone Plan for You
Students research the features and costs of cell phones and cell phone plans and use a decision matrix to compare options and determine the best one for their needs, wants, and budget.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Connecting With Digital Audiences
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...
Creative Science Centre
Creative Science Centre: Demonstration to Show Mobile Phones Emit Radio Waves
This is a very simple and cheap device that demonstrates that mobile phones generate radio waves.
American Public Media
American Radio Works: White House Tapes
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...
Creative Science Centre
Creative Science Centre: Demonstration of Radio Waves Generated by Mobile Phone
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...
PBS
Pbs Nova: The Stuff of Smartphones
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.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Respond to Student Writing: Cell Phones
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.
Other
E Cycle Best: Man & His Mobile: A Toxic Relationship
The cell phones have dramatically changed our way of life but at what cost? Learn the cons to these powerful machines in this article.
Curated OER
Short Courses: Camera Phones
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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Kidsmart: Mobiles
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.
Other
Wireless Advisor: Analog, Digital: What's the Difference?
Describes the differences, disadvantages, and advantages of both an analog and a digital phone.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Electrical and Electronics Engineer
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...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Many Numbers Can You Remember?
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...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Wave Blockers
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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