John, PreK

Year 1, Cohort 1, Non-Rural Alaska
Child-Nature Points of Interest (2018-2019)


Demographic Information

Demographic Information
  • Ethnicity: White/Caucasian, Alaskan Native (Tlingit-Haida, Unangan (Aleut))
  • DOB: March, 2014
  • Gender: Male
  • Birthplace: Fairbanks, AK
  • Family Members: Mother, Father, Brother (age 10)
  • Years Parent Lived in Alaska: 15
  • Parent鈥檚 feeling about place lived: (1-10 rating; 10=extremely happy, 1=extremely unhappy)
  • House Location(s) in Fairbanks: Inside Fairbanks City Limits

Source: Family Survey, Fall 2018 (completed by John鈥檚 mother)

Family Favorite Outdoor Activities
  • Family Outdoor Activities: 
    (Ranked frequently and almost always)
    • Go to playground or park (in city/town/village)
    • Go to sports field (soccer, baseball, etc.)
    • Family bike rides (in town/city/village)
    • Hike in natural setting
    • Garden or greenhouse (garden)
  • Child鈥檚 Outdoor Activities: 
    (Ranked frequently and almost always)
    • Bike, scooter, or skate
    • Make-believe/free play (outdoors summer)
    • Pick flowers
    • Look for bugs
    • Hide and seek
    • Swim or water play
    • Collect/Find things (sticks)
    • Build snowman, snow forts, snowballs
    • Free play outside (winter)
    • Sled
  • Favorite Family Activity (Written response): "Playing at the park."
  • Child鈥檚 Favorite Summer Activity (Written response): 鈥淏ike riding"
  • Child鈥檚 Favorite Winter Activity (Written response): 鈥淧laying in the snow"
  • Description of outdoor experience when child was afraid/scared (Written response): 鈥淎 baby moose walked by our campsite."
  • Description of outdoor experience when child was excited/happy (Written response): 鈥淗iking at Denali National Park."

Source: Family Survey, Fall 2018 (completed by John鈥檚 mother)

Child's Drawings

Favorite "Winter" Nature Activity
Child's drawing: rocks, sun with rocks

Spring 2019

Title: Rocks and snowballs

Child quotes:

鈥淢ake snowballs with snow that is wet鈥

鈥淚 want to draw a rock around it鈥 it鈥檚 a big giant rock with a rock and that鈥檚 a snowball. And it was鈥 black or whatever.鈥

鈥淚t鈥檚 a sun with rocks in it.鈥

鈥淢ake a fort.鈥

鈥淪hoot snowballs with my shovel.鈥

鈥淣ot snowball fights just making forts and throwing snowballs at stuff.鈥

Family Feedback: N/A

"Happy" Drawing
Child's drawing: I drew grass and a sea and me. I made the sea.
Fall 2018
Child's drawing: Mazes
Spring 2019
"Negative Affect" Drawing
Child's drawing: I'm worried about a surf board flying
Fall 2018

Spring 2019: No drawing

Fall 2018
Class Nature Tour Video 
Highlights

Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:

Curious and observant of flora and fauna 鈥 Noted 鈥減oisonous鈥 tree mushrooms, Tasted puffball mushrooms; Observed rosehip seeds; Discerned that the grass fields were 鈥減lanted鈥; Took notice of cranes, stating, 鈥渓ook at the cranes!鈥

Fall 2018
Family Nature Tour Highlights

Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:

Built environmental features limited nature interactions 鈥 Biking on paved road, Merry-go-round, and manicured lawn; Threw pebbles from playground into river; Blew a dandelion; Mother encouraged John and brother to stomp mushrooms because 鈥渋t is fun鈥

Spring 2019
Class Nature Tour Video 
Highlights

Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:

Stick 鈥渘ot a sword;鈥 finds fur in the snow; notices bird habitat; fell from tree when branch broke

Child Reflection on Educational Activities

Fall 2018

Child Quotes:

鈥淕o in the forest and play.鈥

&驳迟;鈥淧濒补测鈥

鈥淭hey [sandhill cranes] stand on one foot sleeping.鈥

Spring 2019

Child Quotes:

鈥淭here was trees not broken but they were like a C stuck to the ground.鈥

"There was a big stick and James screwed it into the ground. He wanted to reach the sky.鈥

鈥淲e was climbing on the trees.鈥


This project is funded by the National Science Foundation. 啵啵直播秀 # 1753399, CAREER: A longitudinal study of the emotional and behavioral processes of Environmental Identity Development among rural and non-rural Alaskan children