Teach Fzx - Disassemble Day

"We should do this more often!"

As the final activity of our electricity unit, the students bring in broken, old, and disused electric machines.  I remind them to scavenge the neighbors' garbage for perfectly good appliances and drop that old disc-man in the backpack for the ride to school.

I bring tools from my personal collection

and they get together and take stuff apart.  I award bonus points for bringing something in to disassemble since there's nothing like extra credit points or gold stars to motivate a high school student.

Some devices have a bunch of gears that they almost understand.

With others we can override the safety switches and practice making ground meat.

Some students seem quite happy with the project

while others demonstrate teen 'tudes.

This is the first oscilloscope brought in for this occasion - it was a $5 yard sale purchase.

Some not only disassemble, but show their love for the earth by re-tasking items for Halloween.  I hope to see this mask at my door at the end of October.

All in all, a fabulous day - never a complaint - and sometimes the reassembly results in a functioning device.