All Grants Orrell Grant Recipients
2018-2019 Academic Year – AAHS awarded the first Orrell Curriculum Development Grant to Lulu Walker Elementary School, Tucson (Jane Peterson) to support their Annual 4th Grade Pit Fire Day at Catalina State Park as a culminating activity wrapping up their Arizona State Social Studies unit on Native American history and study of traditional Pueblo Pottery.
2019-2020 Academic Year – Innovation Academy, Oro Valley (Mabel Rivera) to create an excavation site at the school.
AAHS again gave an award to Lulu Walker Elementary School, Tucson (Jane Peterson) for the Annual 4th Grade Pit Fire Day at Catalina State Park.
BASIS Tucson North (Porter McDonald) was awarded a grant for curriculum development related to the use of shell by ancient people of the Sonoran Desert and their relationship to the sea.
2020-2021 Academic Year – Arizona Project Archaeology (Joanna Brace) to develop an “Investigating Shelter” curriculum based on Hohokam archaeology for grades three thru five.
2023-2024 Academic Year – Sam Hughes Elementary (Theresa Barry) for a 5th Grade Archaeology Project with Old Pueblo Archaeology.