Team Repair
- Titre de la séance : Team Repair — Article & Video
- Activité principale : Lecture guidée + visionnage + préparation d’une présentation orale
- Compétences / objectifs : Comprendre un document écrit et vidéo ; extraire des informations ; présenter à l’oral en continu ; exprimer une opinion
- Culture / lexique : Économie circulaire ; e-waste ; réparation ; gadgets et technologie ; vocabulaire STEM
Vocabulary Kit — Team Repair
- déchets électroniques
- qui se répare facilement
- captivant
- transmission intergénérationnelle de compétences
- captiver l’esprit des enfants
- circularité (économie circulaire)
- réutilisable
- gadget / petit appareil
- console de jeu portable
- télécommandé
- kit de réparation
- encourager
- s’engager dans
- donner la priorité à
- lancer
- d’occasion
- tout neuf
- à la mode
- législation
- inspirer
Take the document No need for new toys….
1. Look at the picture and the title.
1. Regarde l’image et le titre.
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a. What do you think Team Repair does?
a. Que penses-tu que Team Repair fait ?
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b. Read the article and pick out information about Team Repair’s activities.
b. Lis l’article et relève des informations sur les activités de Team Repair. c. Explain why Team Repair wants to work with schools.
c. Explique pourquoi Team Repair veut travailler avec des écoles. d. Pay attention to the determiner “each” (l.8) and say why it is used here.
d. Fais attention au déterminant « each » (l.8) et dis pourquoi il est utilisé ici. e. Explain why Team Repair’s programme is “such a cool concept” (l.30).
e. Explique pourquoi le programme de Team Repair est « un concept tellement cool » (l.30).
Script — No need for new toys, we have Team Repair
No need for new toys, we have Team Repair
We spoke to Anaïs Engelmann and Megan Hale from Team Repair. They run a 12-month fixing programme that could be a perfect gift for any young person in your life.
Starting fixers young
The team of Team Repair is composed of five design-engineering graduates who are linked by their passion for reducing e-waste. Their company aims to introduce and teach children about repair and sustainability, each month sending them a new gadget to fix.
These gadgets include hand-held game consoles and remote-controlled cars — it's such a fresh and engaging approach to capturing children’s minds.
Anaïs and Megan explain to us how they came to repair at different stages of their lives, proving that it is never the wrong time to learn these crucial skills. They believe that getting children interested in repair early is integral to inspiring our next generation of fixers and repair-friendly designers.
Another lovely aspect of the Team Repair model is encouraging generational skill sharing. Whether it is parents helping their children with the repair kits, or Team Repair themselves going into schools. At Restart, we recognise how important this skill sharing is in teaching younger people and also not letting this knowledge be lost to time.
Building in circularity
They tell us how a key feature of their project is building circularity into their work. It is not necessarily a popular approach with investors but Team Repair recognise the importance of this aspect of their work. In an effort to solve the issue of e-waste, it only makes sense to reuse the gadgets that they send out.
Their hope is that by educating children on repair and waste reduction, these skills will come in handy when Right to Repair legislation also moves forwards in the coming years. It’s a hope that we definitely share and are working towards making a reality all the time.
Team Repair’s fixing programme is such a cool concept and we cannot wait to see how it develops and what other toys there are to fix!
2. Watch the video in your groups. Prepare a three-minute presentation about the information in the video.
2. Regardez la vidéo en groupes. Préparez une présentation de trois minutes sur les informations de la vidéo.
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a. Write what you understood.
a. Écris ce que tu as compris. b. Explain how Team Repair works.
b. Explique comment fonctionne Team Repair. c. Would you be interested in a Team Repair kit? Why?
c. Serais-tu intéressé(e) par un kit Team Repair ? Pourquoi ? d. Do you think this could be integrated into your science class? How?
d. Penses-tu que cela pourrait être intégré en cours de sciences ? Comment ?
Script — Team Repair Video
hello my name is anaise and I'm one of the co-founders of Team repair team repair is a startup that we created as a way of engaging more children with science Technology and Engineering through learning the skill of repair
it's been scientifically proven that Hands-On learning is the best way to engage all types of Learners in an educational environment and that's why we've created kits for schools to help teachers deliver that Hands-On learning experience
How it works
this is how it works
we have a range of different gadgets for teachers to choose from
which each align with different curriculum topics
a classroom pack will include a set of one of these gadgets which each have a specific fault designed into them for example in our games console kit students will have to figure out how to fix a broken screen and buttons and while they do so they also get to explore how circuits and electricity works
or in our remote control car kit students can fix things like a broken steering system and gearbox whilst learning about things like Wireless Communications speed distance time equations and how game mechanisms work
Educational content
we've designed up to 3 hours of educational content per Gadget
this includes the core repair activity itself
as well as integrated stem lessons
quizzes at the end of the session and lots of bonus challenges
for example we have a windup torch repair where students have to fix a broken handle and Battery when they're done with the repair we encourage students to think about the similarities between winding up the torch and how wind energy is produced
one of the extension activities there is that they can connect the handle to a voltmeter to see how much energy they can produce from Winding it up they can then connect the volt meter to a solar panel to compare the types of energy production
Repair Kit
along with the repair kit comes all the necessary materials
this includes one extra repair kit for you to practice on before the session
alongside a walkthrough video to take you through the repair
it also includes things like instructions for the students lesson plans presentations to show the class worksheets quizzes
and FAQs and troubleshooting to help with any tricky Parts along the repair
our goal is to make it as easy for you to deliver the session as possible without any prior knowledge about science or repair
Rental Model
team repair operates a rental model as a way for us to reduce the amount of waste we're creating
that means that once your students have completed the repair activity and all the bonus activities we arrange a courier collection to get the classroom pack back to us
once we get it back we then rebreak all the gadgets so that they're ready to be used by another school
Results
schools across the country have already used our kits and we've measured a net increase in repair and stem confidence
they've been used in all kinds of settings like repair clubs science lessons career days enrichment days you name it
Outro
if you're interested in getting team repair into your school book in a call with us and we can send you a kit to try out for free
I look forward to hearing from you and look forward to working together to inspire more students with stem sustainability and repair