Teardown Lab
Time
1.9 hrs
Difficulty
Intermediate
Prerequisites
Tools For Learning
Departments
Human Technologies
Authors
Ross Parker
Groupings
Individual
Pairs
Pairs
Minimum Year Group
None
Blurb
In this unit you will take some old, unwanted electronics and take it to pieces.
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5 mins
What Is Teardown?
Getting Started
- In this unit you will take some old, unwanted electronics and take it to pieces.
- The purpose is to learn how things are made and what is inside them.
- We are not aiming to repair anything, or put anything back together (rebuild)...this is just teardown.
15 mins
Example Teardown
My Turn
- Take some time to watch this video twice, first without stopping, and then stopping it as you need to understand bits that you find difficult.
- After watching the video you hopefully understand, in theory, what teardown is, and how we do it.
5 mins
WARNING!
Electricity Is Bad For You
- Electricity is a powerful force: IT CAN KILL YOU!
- AT NO POINT IN THIS UNIT ARE YOU TO PLUG IN THE DEVICE YOU ARE WORKING ON.
- This unit is for practice only: do not test your work using power.
- This will come in later units.
- If your device has a battery, such as a phone or laptop, ask your teacher for help to remove and recycle the battery. Lithium batteries contain corrosive and potentially explosive chemicals and should never be damaged or punctured. Be careful and always ask for help handling the battery.
15 mins
Screwing
Using A Screwdriver
- Many electronic devices are held together with screws, and so can be opened up with the right size screw driver.
- Watch the (somewhat dull) video below to learn about how to correctly use a screwdriver:
- Some of the key ideas you should now have are:
- Turn left to loosen, right to tighten (aka "lefty loosey, righty tighty").
- Choose the right type of screwdriver for your screw (e.g. Philips, Flathead, Torx, etc).
- Choose the right size of screwdriver head for your screw.
- Push downwards whilst using your screwdriver.
- Keep the shaft of the screwdriver parallel to the screw (this takes some skills, as the tendency is to move the screw drive to the side, as shown below):
45 mins
Doing A Teardown
Your Turn
- Now it's your turn.
- To prepare for your teardown, you will need to do the following:
- Speak to your parents to find an old piece of electronics from home that you can teardown and rebuild.
- Ask your parents to email your teacher to let them know you are allowed to teardown this electronics.
- Bring your electronic item to school.
- Speak to someone from the IT department to arrange access to the tools you need.
- Speak to your teacher about safety (e.g. using tools, electrical safety)
- Once you are ready, do your teardown.
- Take some photo or videos as you go to use later.
- You can store your teardown parts in one of the black bins while it's in progress.
- Look for one of the three single-wide shelves of bins, which are for student work.
- Choose an empty bin, then put your name on it using a pen and piece of tape.
- Be sure to recycle your parts and empty your bin when your teardown is over.
30 mins
Finishing Up
Evidence
- In order to capture your learning, do the following:
- Make a new Google Doc
- Add a title and your name as author
- Write a short descriptive paragraph (3-4 sentences) about your experience in Teardown Lab
- Add a few photos of the item you tore down.
- Submit your work as evidence of your learning.
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