Teachers! Are field trips next to impossible?  Working with Arizona Parks and Trails, Arizona Project Archaeology has put together nine virtual field trips to sites all over Arizona! Each video is a guided tour of the archaeological site, park or monument and features a Project Archaeology Investigating Shelter lesson topic. Check out our Arizona Project Archaeology YouTube channel HERE.

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Educators - we now have an online Investigating Shelter Teacher Workshop! Arizona Project Archaeology is offering a self-paced Investigating Shelter Teacher Workshop this fall through Arizona State University's Career Catalyst program.  This interactive online workshop will present archaeological inquiry-based lessons featuring an enduring understanding, essential question and assessment, with teacher tools such as background information, materials list, word bank and interactive classroom exercises. This curriculum meets many essential Arizona Education Standards. The workshop is sponsored by Institute for Heritage Education grant funds and individual donations. Each teacher will receive the Project Archaeology Investigating Shelter curriculum (a $49.95 value). Workshop completion will generate completion certificate for professional development hours. 

The Project Archaeology Investigating Shelter October 1-31, 2022 online course is open on the ASU Career Catalyst site - Register NOW!

 

The Arizona Project Archaeology

Investigating Shelter Video Project

has received the

2021 Governor's Heritage Preservation

Honor Award!

Arizona Project Archaeology is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a half day Investigating Shelter in-person workshop for elementary school teachers in the Yuma AZ area on October 22, 2022. This workshop is being offered free to educators, as part of the Arizona Site Steward Program annual conference. Each attendee will receive the full Investigating Shelter curriculum complete with teacher tools, a certificate of completion for continuing education credit and a chance to win valuable classroom activity supplies. For more information please visit our Arizona Project Archaeology Events page, or if you are ready to be one of the 20 workshop attendees you may register HERE.  

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Workshops and programs are made possible by partnerships with the Arizona Site Steward Program and Foundation, Arizona Preservation organization, Arizona State Parks, Bureau of Land Management, Arizona State University College of Integrated Sciences and Arts and grantors Arizona Humanities and the Institute of Heritage Education. 

 

Also, Arizona Project Archaeology is proud to have received a grant from the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS) F. Lewis Orrell Jr Bequests to develop an Arizona specific Hohokam Pithouse Shelter guide for our teachers and students.  Watch for this guide in 2023!