Organizing multiple kits?

[Andrew Rudolph]

I never did it with RIS systems but we did the robolab kits. I had like 6 kits, and i established very early on that trading or getting parts from other kits was not permitted. Then i made sure the kids understood they were responsible for the kits. Finally i had them always do a quick inventory with the included cards in case anything was missing. But they were 4th graders. Best thing you can do is just make sure they put them away the same way, gears in a certain spot so on and so on, then you can glance over them and make sure that all the pieces are there. If all else fails you just gotta join all the kits together then sort everything by part. So you know that at the end of the day you are supposed to have 16 60 tooth gears in a bin.

[spears312]

A good way to handle it would be to buy a few big compartment tool box things (sorry I cant think of a correct name or better descriptor ), or just get some other sort of storage unit. We have several mindstorm kits in the same class room, each in their own box, and then we divided them up into the compartments by common parts, like gears, 1x4 bricks, motors, senors, etc. You can probably do a few different things depending on how specific you want to get in keeping the stuff apart, like gears in general or specific sizes of gears.

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by spears312

A good way to handle it would be to buy a few big compartment tool box things (sorry I cant think of a correct name or better descriptor ), or just get some other sort of storage unit.

That's what I use for my two Mindstorms kits (used to be just one, but I won a second kit Friday from an OSU summer engineering camp!) and most of the expansions, plus other miscellaneous stuff.