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Age Range: 11-14
Duration: 60 or more mins
  • D&T
  • Engineering
  • Physics

Mobile phones and health

Investigate the potential effects of mobile phones on our health

The ‘Time for a game’ scheme of work provides an electronics systems context for students to explore infrared technologies.

Activity info, teachers' notes and curriculum links

An engaging activity in which students will investigate the potential effects to health of the use of mobile phones and their transmitters, which use radio waves and microwaves to transmit information.

The activity sheet includes teacher notes, guidance, useful web links, and links (where appropriate) to the national curriculum in each of the four devolved UK nations; England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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