L5.6

What's inside a smartphone?¶

Learning Objectives:¶

Discover the many layers and their function in a smartphone
Investigate the components of a smartphone
Explore how the smartphone has been engineered
Identify and separate the components of the smartphone into four categories - screen, electronics, battery, casing
Determine the best tool to dismantle a smartphone given the specific construction of your smartphone

Warm-up:¶

Attendance
Open Student IMT Unit 5, make sure all lessons are complete.

IN-CLASS WORK:¶

Open L5.6 Student Sheet, make a copy, and add to your google drive
End class with review - what was learned today?

OUT-OF-CLASS WORK:¶

Open IMT for Unit 5 and make sure all sections for lesson 6 are complete.
Make sure student sheet L5.6 is complete
Complete the following assignment, L5.6 HW - Smartphone Infographic, and turn in before your next class.

L5.6 Student Sheet¶

What is inside a smartphone?

PURPOSE: Discover how to take a smartphone apart.In the process of taking the phone apart.¶

Part 1. Reviewing the Chemistry of Smartphones¶

Review the Chemistry of the Smartphone Infographic we have used so far in class.
List the four major components of the smartphone.

Use the picture from Cellphone Chemistry Infographic to discover more about the organization of parts inside a smartphone before you take one apart yourself. List the name of each layer and the function of that part of the smartphone.

Name	Function
Layer 1
Layer 2
Layer 3
Layer 4
Layer 5
Layer 6

Part 2. Smartphone Disassembly Research¶

Each pair of students will be given a smartphone. Research the phone you have been given from your teacher. You may not be able to identify the model or year of the phone. You should be able to identify the manufacturer of the smartphone. Record information below.

Smartphone Name/Brand/Model:
Year (If possible): Find and list websites that show how to take apart your smartphone.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF91P5rZZnM

Part 3. Component Removal: Observations, Challenges, and Your Questions For each removal step, write notes from the ‘how-to-take apart’ video or website, and complete the data table by: Making Notes from the Smartphone Video, if needed, Making Observations of the component, Note Challenges in taking this component apart, Writing Questions about the component, and Placing the component in a ziploc bag, labeling, and storing for the next class. At the end of the class, return all tools in their place in the kit.

Step 1: Removal of Casing NOTES (make notes below) from ‘how-to-take apart” video/website:

Observation(s) What were your challenges? What questions do you have?