Restart at School

Welcome

Here you will find all you need to start preparing for our 10 week programme. Keep in mind that Restart and repair volunteers in your community are here to support you. You can download all the materials here, or download them one by one in order at your convenience.

• Introduction to Restart at School – complementary information about the Restart at School

Before you start

These documents will help educators understand in detail what activities you will be facilitated during the programme and what materials are required.

• Teacher’s Notes – Step by step guidance to each of the sessions
• Announcing Restart at School and call for broken gadgets – Call to parents and school community to help finding broken gadgets (you can also share Restart’s call to action at Wired Next Generation)
• Equipment, tools and materials required – The stuff you need for each session for 10 students

Programme Sessions

The enrichment programme starts and ends with why we learn repair, with the middle sessions focusing on electronics repair, aided by technical volunteers. UK curricular links are indicated in italics.

An overview

• Sessions 1-2 grounding in the social and environmental reasons to repair Citizenship, Geography
• Sessions 3-4 working our way in repair, teaching safety and technique CS, DT, Engineering, Physics
• Sessions 5-8 repair sessions, including laptops, mobiles, hand-held gadgets – teaching fault-finding and creative problem-solving CS, Chemistry, DT, Engineering, Geography
• Sessions 9-10 return to reasons to repair, giving students some food for thought about future careers and the transferrable skills they can gain through repair 

Session by session

• Session 1 slides – Electronic waste and supply chains
  • Session 1 student sheet: Restart Code
• Session 2 slides – Our stress, worker stress
• Session 3 slides – Safety and taking electronics apart
  • Session 3 Game controller disassembly guide
  • Session 3 student sheet: Safety worksheet
• Session 4 slides – Researching and getting organised for repair
• Session 5 slides – Understanding upgradability and laptop maintenance
• Session 6 slides – Mobiles, lithium batteries and conflict minerals
• Session 7 slides – Fault-finding and gadget repair
  • Session 7 student sheet: Fault-finding worksheet- Student Sheet
• Session 8 slides – Creative problem solving and good design
  • Session 8 student sheet: Good and bad design worksheet
• Session 9 slides – The intrinsic value of gadgets for reuse and recycling
  • Session 9 student sheet: Reuse and recycling worksheet 1
  • Session 9 student sheet: Reuse and recycling worksheet 2
• Session 10 document – Future careers