Classroom organization: lab benches
Hello!
I teach high school science, and it's looking like I will have roughly 30 students per class in the fall. I was chatting with a couple coworkers and they gave me the idea to have my students sit at the lab benches instead of at desks or tables in the front part of the room.
Thinking further, this could work out very well, but it got me thinking about my laptops and how to store them. Sure, I could use the cart for storing and charging, but I have 28 laptops, 18 chargers, and these laptops are about 12-13 years old so they don't hold a charge beyond 2 class periods, less if we are running a lab.
My question to you is this: how would you organize the laptops and chargers at each bench to make sure 9th grade students put their *safely * laptop away at the end of each period? I'm creating a wishlist of sorts to buy some supplies for the fall semester.
Part of my challenge is the fact the students need to use the same laptop all year because IT let me know the reason the computers stopped updating was because they ran out of memory due to having 80+ user profiles downloaded onto them! They also need to use the same laptop all year so if something breaks due to negligence, we know roughly who did it.
I have 7 benches with one side against the wall and the other facing the center of the room. Plugs available at both ends.