Removing Geographical Barriers
The Conner Prairie Learning Portal provides a unique digital experience that focuses on the learner. Through a series of educational resources and interactive elements, our learning portal gives you the time and space that you need to explore the Conner Prairie story with opportunities to complement your own educational development.
Customized courses allow endless possibilities to inspire curiosity and learn about the world in a new way. Students will develop a deeply rooted understanding of Conner Prairie’s educational perspectives and how their Indiana story is connected to the rest of the world.
Removing Geographical Barriers
The Conner Prairie Learning Portal provides a unique digital experience that focuses on the learner. Through a series of educational resources and interactive elements, our learning portal gives you the time and space that you need to explore the Conner Prairie story with opportunities to complement your own educational development.
Customized courses allow endless possibilities to inspire curiosity and learn about the world in a new way. Students will develop a deeply rooted understanding of Conner Prairie’s educational perspectives and how their Indiana story is connected to the rest of the world.
Learning Portal Pricing
Free
- Educational videos, Conner Prairie in the Classroom materials and 360 degree self-walking tour of Conner Prairie Grounds.
Learning Portal Subscription
- Structured and interactive courses based on universal themes with supplementary material and an advanced virtual tour.
Upcoming events
Curious Conversations:
Learning Through Objects in Lenape Culture
This webinar discusses material culture, the objects produced, used and traded by a group of people can help us learn more about them. Join Sara Schumacher, Curator of Native American History & Life, as we learn about the Lenape culture through discussions with interpreter Mike Pace and other members of the Delaware Tribe of Indians.
Curious Conversations:
Seasonality in 1830's Everyday Life
December 8
1 p.m.
This webinar discusses the changing of the seasons impact more than the temperature in the Midwest. How does historical everyday life change with the seasons? How might your clothes and diet change? Join Curatorial Assistant Dylan Rawles and Interpreter Sarah Withrow as they discuss food, dress and the primary sources related to seasonality and everyday life.
Universal Themes
Curiosity
Curiosity powers our learning. Taking the time to explore what you are curious about allows you to learn more about yourself and strengthens your passion for learning.
Courses:
Explore Your Curiosity Through Storytelling
Explore Your Curiosity Through Storytelling
Overlooked
Purposefully noticing something you haven’t before allows you to learn something new, see something from a different perspective, and deepen your understanding.
Courses:
Overlooked Animal Science (Coming Soon)
Overlooked Animal Science
How do we impact the animals in our ecosystem? How have those animals impacted us? Explore the animals at Conner Prairie and the way humans have historically interacted with them. From the bone spoon and pig hair toothbrush to selective breeding and domestication look at the overlooked ways we interact with animals.
The Water That Connects Us (Coming Soon)
The Water That Connects Us
The White River runs through the heart of Conner Prairie. This water brought together seemingly disparate groups of people to this place. Today it continues to bring us together for nourishment, to experience nature and for recreation. Explore the historic story of the river, the science of watersheds, and how we are protecting this resource for our community and those downstream.
Courage
Courage is one way to look at history through human experiences. Learn how individuals made their own stories in response to and in spite of larger historical events.
Courses: Coming Soon
More to come!
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services 45.312