The guided exhibit tour is 75 minutes long. Bakken tour guides modify and adjust their tours based on the students' questions and interests. Throughout the tour the students will:

• Learn about Earl Bakken and his invention of the first battery-operated pacemaker.

• Feel what it is like to be a wire and have electricity travel through their bodies.

• Create and see over 30,000 volts of electricity travel through air.

• Visit our Electrarium, see electric eels and other electric fish, hear their electricity, and learn why they use it.

• See 300 years of electric and magnetic medical devices and learn how electricity and magnetism have been used in medicine.

• Engage in a hands-on experiments.

• Learn how they are part of science by making connections between artifacts, stories, experiments, scientists and inventors.

Links to Resources:

Mary Shelley's Dream: An interactive, multi-media exhibit included in guided exhibit tour for grades 4-6
You can learn more about the exhibit, share the show’s script with your students before they arrive and/or prep to discuss with your students before and after your visit by looking at our website at: http://www.thebakken.org/Frankenstein/intro.htm.

Our Exhibits
You can find more information about our exhibits on our website at: http://www.thebakken.org/exhibits/exhibits.htm.