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Repair Is a Powerful Teaching Tool!
Repair offers opportunities for students to approach what's broken, dig into and understand what it’s made of and how it works, find a point and mode of intervention, and put it into working order. Repair becomes an experiential model for addressing what's not working, regardless of scale.
When we fix something, repairing becomes a metaphor for everything we hope education can be: relevant, rooted, rigorous, and restorative.
Repair offers a wide range of thinking skills and requires learning subject content central to the goals of education:
Critical Thinking skills
Problem-solving, design thinking, reflection, systems thinking
Hands-on Skills
Tool use, technical literacy, design and engineering practices, applied learning, restorative practices
Across subjects
Interdisciplinary learning, STEAM,
ecology, civics, physics
Personal development
Social Emotional Learning (SEL), resilience, adaptability, civic responsibility, agency
Images from Berkeley High School Climate Day, California, April 2025
Visit our Education Program Overview page to consider more deeply the educational possibilities inherent in repair.
A More Robust Educator Resource Library!
We're excited to announce that the Culture of Repair Educator Resource Library has been overhauled and expanded to provide even more (mostly) free tools for teaching about repair in primary and secondary educational settings.
Expanded and Searchable
We’ve made the Library easier to navigate with a new filtering tool to let you search by content topic and by type of resource.
And we’ve added not only more curriculum and lesson plans, but also a broader range of resources – like videos, visual aids, worksheets, and online interactive activities.
Most resources are free and open access, and everything is designed to be flexible across learning environments. We invite you to reach out to let us know if there is something we should add to the library. Or, if you want to create sharable resources and need funding, check out our Grants Program.
Featured Resource
Ten one-hour lesson plans link multiple subject areas to the concept of repair in this downloadable education pack. Designed to align with the English Primary National Curriculum, the resource encourages practical, hands-on learning, making it a versatile resource that can be adapted for use anywhere.
Lesson plans are augmented with supplementary resources and illustrations of how to associate lessons with other school initiatives (e.g., hosting a community repair event, a climate action or robotics club, etc.).
Lesson plans developed by Malvern Hills Repair Cafe.
Have you used the Repair Educator Resource Library?
Let us know! Your stories and feedback help us grow and shape the tools we share.