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Virtual Field Trips

                             
Arizona Project Archaeology provides services to educators in three ways:
  1. High quality curricular materials that model authentic archaeological inquiry and are directly related to Arizona State Standards​   
  2. Professional development for educators such as classroom teachers, informal educators and archaeologists
  3. Support for Arizona Project Archaeology educators through statewide and regional programs, conferences, new materials and networking opportunities 

​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. ​


​Project Archaeology Investigating Shelter: Warm-up Lesson Thinking Like an Archaeologist at Tuzigoot National Monument   ​ Lead Park Ranger, Paul Santellan, will introduce students to the science of archaeology. What lines of evidence can we follow to know where to excavate? How do we protect and preserve the excavated sites?
​Project Archaeology Investigating Shelter: Lesson 2   
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By Our Houses You Will Know Us at  Montezuma Castle National Monument Archaeologist, Matt Guebard, discusses how archaeologists can study different kinds of buildings and learn about the people who lived there.  
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 Project Archaeology Investigating Shelter: Lesson 3 
Culture Everywhere  at Riordan Mansion State Historic Park
 Archaeologist, Nikki Lober, tell us about this unique historic house museum and discusses how we can learn about its former inhabitants. 
Project Archaeology Investigating Shelter: Lesson 4
Observation, Inference and Evidence at  Elden Pueblo Archaeological Site Archaeologist, Amanda Lloyd,  discusses how archaeologists use observation and inference to form meaningful questions and how they use data and evidence to answer those questions.
Project Archaeology Investigating Shelter: Lesson 6
Context  at Yellow Dog Mine and Joseph Cone Cabin
Archaeologist, Scott McFall, will discuss how archaeologists, using scientific methods, investigate habitation sites and what the items left behind that tell us how the residents lived. 
​Project Archaeology Investigating Shelter
Lines of Evidence in Investigations at Casa Grande National Monument Archaeologist, Alicia Hayes, and Education Coordinator, Sarah Sutton, discuss  how  evidence found and studied at shelter sites can show how people lived and that a shelter leaves an identifiable footprint!
Project Archaeology Investigating Shelter: Lesson 8
Being an Archaeologist at Tumacácori National Historic Park ​ Interpretive Coordinator, Melanie Rawlins, will discuss how shelter expresses culture. Students will learn that archaeologists are scientists who study past cultures and archaeology is a method for collecting primary data about the lifeways of past cultures. What happens when two cultures come together in one place?   
Project Archaeology Investigating Shelter: Lesson 8 
"Backwards Archaeology"  Investigating a pithouse at Pueblo Grande Museum. Museum Director, Nicole Armstrong-Best, tells us about this important Hohokam site. Archaeologist, Laura Andrew, Education Specialist, Jenny Work, and volunteer, Jeri Meeks, play Backwards Archaeology to infer how people might have lived here by looking at what and where artifacts are found within an archaeological pithouse site.
​Project Archaeology Investigating Shelter: Lesson 9
Stewardship is Everyone’s Responsibility at Romero Ruins in Catalina State Park Forest Service Heritage Program Manager, David Mehalic, tells us why the protection - or stewardship - of our state's archaeological sites is everyone's responsibility. Students will learn there are rules and laws that protect archaeological and historical sites

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