PaedDr. Vladimír Šmahaj
Jan Kepler Grammar School, Prague
Winner of the award “Amos The Chemist 2017” and the “Amos of the City of Prague 2017”
"Chemistry and Light" is a mysterious name that hides behind a kit full of high-value chemicals and tools that allow you to implement motivational demonstration experiments as well as student experiments at school, both in classes and in laboratory lessons. We have bought the kit as one of the first customers in Czech Republic at all and believe it or not, today we cannot teach without it. Luminescence is a very important phenomenon that can be applied in a vast number of topics taught at our schools in chemical education, especially in the case of atoms, chemical bonds and chemical reactions.
For me, as an avid chemist and a passionate experimentalist, the "Chemistry and Light" kit, together with the methodological and instructional manual, is an integral part of my teaching practice. I warmly recommend these experiments to all colleagues and their pupils. With every new class I get, I like to return to these experiments.