MEL Chemistry: real science with home delivery
Forming / / December 19, 2019
MEL Chemistry - a project that combines entertainment, children's interest, scientific approach to the educational process and new technology.
MEL Chemistry - is a small chemical laboratory, which can be deployed at home, as well as supplier of chemical experiments amazing.
starter kit
Starter kit - a utensil, protective equipment and reagents necessary for many experiments. In the box with the tools it is all that is needed to equip a small study chemistry.
- Safety glasses for the child and parent. Parents, too, need protection, because the experiments were not recommended to be put without adult supervision. And not only in the matter of security: parents also interesting.
- Beaker and the flask made of refractory glass which can be heated on a burner.
- Burner for dry fuel. Is transformed into a simple metal box, so as not to occupy the space.
- Two large syringe for experiments with gases, cork, funnel - small things needed for a good job.
- Refractory cork coasters and tray for experiments. These surfaces are not afraid of spilled reagents.
- Stand for smartphone. The smartphone is needed to view video instructions in the application. Option for those who do not like to read instructions.
- Makrolinza smartphone. Need to shoot the experiments in the approximation and consider carefully what happens.
- Cardboard VR-glasses to treat the molecules of substances in 3D-format.
- Four bottles of reagents that will be needed in many experiments.
With this set of field laboratory takes place in any clean bench for a few minutes.
Lyrical digression. I went to school in not the easiest time, and the lessons of chemistry just was not enough conventional reagents. When we experimented around a spirit lamp was about 6-7 people. Well, what then experiment when even cut a piece of sodium is not given, because it is not your turn to stand at the table with the devices. Maybe that's why all of these flasks and test tubes caused such delight.
Separately, it must be said about the instructions. Written simply and to the point, it is clear to both children and adults. Completely absent kantselyarizmy typical for the majority of domestic regulations.
Sets with experiments
Sets with experiments - a separate box with the reagents and the additional equipment (Petri dishes, electrodes, filter paper, etc.) for carrying out the experiments.
You purchase a subscription and get a starter kit with two experiments, and then once a month, get a set of three. Buy one thing is not possible, as well as get a set of tests on six months ahead: subscription is issued for one year. From it you can refuse, but it is unlikely you want to. In one set may be just three of the experiment. Properties and materials are different, something is triggered immediately, the effect of other reaction it is necessary to wait a few days.
The creators say that enough reagents to conduct each experiment twice (if you have two children, for example). That is the maximum number of runs in one set - six. All you can get 38 sets, the number of passes for a hundred experiments.
Security
To hurt yourself a set of MEL Chemistry, need to ask for such a purpose. For example, full score on the instructions or watch videos in the app.
Especially for such experimental creators have placed warning information wherever possible. She catches the eye, so it is difficult to ignore.
Bottles of reagents equipped with child-resistant, so do not try to younger tastes nothing inedible. All the necessary tools are already available: non-combustible supports, tubes and so on. Tips and reminders have instructions, even the most obvious example, that the glass bulb, if it is heated to be hot and you need to use potholders. For adults it is clear without explanation, and children better recall.
So play and explore the world with MEL Chemistry is not terrible.
application
You need to conduct experiments with a smartphone on which the application is running. In it there are instructions on how to conduct experiments, as well as the Sea of useful information about what is happening in the experiment. Very accessible describes the chemical reaction itself. Of course, with formulas, but without getting bored.
In addition, the application is a schematic representation of molecules of each substance, which is used in the experiment.
Suffice it to scan the code with the tube, so that the application substance found in the library. And then the molecules can be viewed, rotated, to study their structure. Including this is done in three-dimensional form, using the VR-points.
Motivation and competition
Children in the MEL Chemistry website infest some accounts, there can also be tested for knowledge, the results of which child receives ranks and levels.
For extra motivation, you can shoot the action on video and send them to the administrator - entries will be placed in social networks. We have, for example, has grown a great snake sugar, we also want to share.
By the way, for this useful and wide-angle lens of the starter kit. It will cover all the work space to record the experiment in the video.
Reactions are advised to shoot in macro mode and apply taymlaps. All grown-up.
Minuses
The only negative of the whole project - it is a conflict of expectations and reality. Something that looks very nice in the photos and movies, the reality is much less. Ie tin hedgehog is not the size of a hedgehog, even a newborn, and a bean, and will exist for a short time in a test tube. A metal tree actually looks much more modest.
And not all reactions occur without a hitch. For example, in one experiment the case of a set of "Chemistry and Light" gives a strong reaction in the form of blue luminous fountain, and in another case will fountain modest, and flicker will not fly. The experiment is distinguished from the focus that we should work on it.
But I have the experience of buying a wide variety of sets with the experiments, the results of which are very far from those stated, despite the observance of technology. In this regard, MEL Chemistry pleased. Let not all reactions are violent, as shown in the video instructions, but they are there.
It is useful MEL Chemistry
- Children from 12, which is clearly inclined to studies and research, - for them it is a great gift.
- Children who are of little interest to study. They hooked entertainment, an opportunity to draw attention to themselves and collect huskies in social networks. And knowledge anyway postponed.
- Adults who attended school in the hard times and missed all of the experiments (or walk).
- Generally all, just for fun.
MEL ChemistryOf course, not the cheap toy in the world. But to get an education for free, it is necessary that the person was a strong motivation. In children and adolescents with this complexity there. So that investments, which will open to them with a fascinating science side, it is quite justified.