An inexpensive visible range spectrophotometer of good
instructional value is prepared as a means of introducing
instrumental analysis to the high school chemistry curriculum.
Design and details of construction of the spectrophotometer
are presented and five standard spectrophotometric experiments
are adapted for high school chemistry. The five experiments
are used to correlate results obtained with the inexpensive
spectrophotometer to those obtained with a commercial
spectrophotometer, the Bausch and Lomb Spectronic 20.