Students have electrifying time at Bakken Museum

Junior Karsten Runquist experiments with electricity at the Bakken Museum.

Photo credit: Kathryn Campbell

Junior Karsten Runquist experiments with electricity at the Bakken Museum.

While other students filed into their classrooms and prepared for a regular school day, St. Paul Academy and Summit school students in British Literature II filed onto a bus for another kind of learning, an electrified kind. The classes who recently finished reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein spent most of the day at the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis where they attended a special presentation on Frankenstein and watched a monologue show about Mary Shelley’s life. The students explored the electricity themed museum and played with static electricity. When the students returned to school, they ate bagged lunches and shared ghost stories that they had written. After sharing the stories, each group nominated one to be read in front of the class. Junior Hallie Sogin enjoyed exploring the Bakken the most, especially experimenting with static electricity: “I think it’s fun to see what happens with electricity when applying it to different things,” she said.