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Teach an entire light and color unit with the versatile Light Box & Optical Set! Light & Color Light Box & Optical Set Everything you need to conduct dozens of optical demonstrations, labs and experiments in one complete easy-to-use kit. Performing experiments involving refraction, reflection, color, and color mixing is a breeze with our versatile, yet affordable, Light Box & Optical Set. The complete set features an easy-to-use, virtually unbreakable light box and collimating lens, plus a full set of lenses, acrylic blocks, half-round and parabolic mirrors, slit plates, color cards, and color filters. One kit gives you everything you need to: • Create single or multiple parallel, convergent or divergent beams. • Blend up to three colors on a screen to study color mixing. • Create and test complex light paths from theoretical layouts. • And much, much more. The kit includes a spare bulb and special three-part molded styrene box for safe, easy storage and transportation of all accessories. Need a power supply? Our P4-7250 Power Supply (see below) is also available as a specially priced option. P2-9561 Light Box & Optical Set 6 or more Power Supply not included. Discover an easier way to teach light and color! $129 $119 Students can easily see how light strikes mirrors and travels through curved glass. Light Box Replacement Parts P2-9561-03 P2-9561-06 P2-9561-04 P2-9561-05 Replacement Halogen Lamp Replacement Color Filters (polycarbonate) Replacement Slit Plates (Set of 3) Halogen Socket Kit $5 $16 $10 $20 arborsci.com Download a sample lab online from the Light and Color Teacher’s Guide and see its correlation to specific standards. Blue + Green make Cyan. Blue + Red + Green make White light. Red + Green make Yellow. Understanding refraction, reflection, color subtraction and addition are just a few of the objectives you’ll accomplish with our Light Box & Optical Set. Comprehensive Light and Color Teacher’s Guide Dozens of experiments for teaching light and color using the Light Box & Optical Set and other equipment. Light Box Power Supply This 13.8 V, 4 A constantvoltage DC power supply makes an ideal power source for the Light Box & Optical Set, as well as many other applications requiring the same voltage. P4-7250 6 or more $49 $44 ea This guide contains dozens of hands-on activities on reflection, refraction, color, polarization, and diffraction. Activities are correlated to the National Science Education Standards and selected state standards. The guide, developed at Arbor Scientific, includes activities for middle school, high school, and college students as well as additional projects that challenge students’ understanding of the concepts. Guide comes with teacher background pages for each lab, reproducible student lab sheets, an equipment chart and an answer key. Three ring binder, 277 pages. P2-9560 Light and Color Teacher’s Guide $55 5 To order visit arborsci.com