Cohort 1: Joshua

Joshua, PreK

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

Demographic Information

Source: Family Survey, Fall 2018 (not completed) N/A

Child's Drawings

Favorite "Summer" Nature Activity
Child's Drawing: Outside house, me, "Play flight with brother"

Fall 2018

Title: 鈥淧lay fight with brother鈥

Child quotes:

鈥淥utside at our house.鈥

鈥淚n our yard and also in our backyard lots even in our house a lot.鈥

鈥淲e find things to play with.鈥

鈥淟ike weapons.鈥

鈥沦迟颈肠办蝉.鈥

鈥淗appy, but when he punch me very hard I鈥檓 feel very mad.鈥

Family Feedback: N/A

Favorite "Winter" Nature Activity
Child's drawing: hiding behind tree, climbing a tree

Spring 2019

Title: Playing with trees

Child quotes:

鈥淗iding behind tree鈥

鈥淐limbing a tree鈥

Family Feedback: N/A

"Happy" Drawing
Child's drawing: blue and brown scribbles
Fall 2018

Spring 2019:  No drawing

"Negative Affect" Drawing
I met a poison mushroom
Fall 2018

Spring 2019: No drawing

Fall 2018
Class Nature Tour Video Highlights

Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:

Curiosity about rosehips; Sword play with a stick, 鈥渟o cool鈥; Awe of cranes 鈥淥h Cranes鈥; 鈥淓w鈥 fell in mud- but got back up; Make-believe sounds when navigating trail

Fall 2018
Family Nature Tour Highlights
Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:

Examined mushroom, Mother noted, 鈥淚t looks like it got stepped on鈥; Identified plants in garden; Harvested a carrot; Pushed toy car on pavement, making motor sound

Spring 2019
Class Nature Tour Video Highlights

Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:

Points out seed pods 鈥渃ocoons鈥 in willows, finds a house in the trees, using stick to carve and find things in snow, remembered forest from previous visit; interest in finding 啵啵直播秀s

Child Reflections on Education Activities

Fall 2018

N/A

Spring 2019

Child Quotes:

鈥淗iding in the trees like a ninja.鈥

鈥淗ammering nails into wood.鈥 (Comment on stick play)

鈥淟ike a ninja, I鈥檓 good at ninja moves.鈥

鈥淵ou can only go on the log, but you can鈥檛 fall off the log backward.鈥

鈥淒on鈥檛 go off the bridge.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