Samuel, PreK

Year 2, Cohort 2, Rural Alaska
Child-Nature Points of Interest 2019-2020

Details

Ethnicity: White/Caucasian

DOB: August, 2015

Gender: Male

Birthplace: Anchorage, AK

Family Members: Mother, Father, Brother (Infant)

Years Parent Lived in Alaska: 7

Parent’s feeling about place lived: 7

(1-10 rating; 10=extremely happy, 1=extremely unhappy)

Family Favorite Outdoor Activities

Family Outdoor Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)

  • Go on walks (in city/town/village)

  • Motorboat or jet ski (for recreation)

  • Picnic or outdoor barbecue

  • Hike in natural setting

  • Camping (tent or RV)

  • Cabin away from home

  • Motorbike or 4-wheel

 

Family Subsistence Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)

  • Pick berries

  • Fish from a boat

  • Go hunting

Child’s Outdoor Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)

  • Look for bugs

  • Collect/Find things: Shells

  • Build forts

  • Pick berries

  • Go fishing

  • Go camping

Favorite Family Recreational Activity (Written response): "Walking on beach/tundra"

Favorite Family Subsistence Activity (Written response): "Berry picking"

Child’s Favorite Summer Activity (Written response): "Fishing or finding bugs"

Child’s Favorite Winter Activity (Written response): "Sled"

Description of outdoor experience when child was afraid/scared (Written response):

"Earlier this summer he was scared climbing a tree too high"

Description of outdoor experience when child was excited/happy (Written response):

"Anytime he gets to jump in puddles or throw sticks in the ocean!"

Child's Drawings

Favorite “Summer†and "Winter" Nature Activity
Child's drawing: moose, bear, acorns, leaves, trees, porcupine

Favorite “Summerâ€

Fall 2019

Title: Finding Animals

Child quotes:

Favorite thing to do is “find à£à£Ö±²¥Ðãsâ€

Where do you go when you find à£à£Ö±²¥Ðãs? “Find it in the woodsâ€

“squirrels, but I need some leaves and acornsâ€

“eggs for birdsâ€

What kind of à£à£Ö±²¥Ðãs do you look for?

“Bears (or birds?) and bunnies… and foxes because my mom sees those every timeâ€

“Bears and foxes be on the tundra. Mom looks for themâ€

“My parents do that tooâ€

“Sometimes my dad shoots foxes and birds and mooseâ€

Did you go when your dad shot a moose? “When I am bigger I can do it but not yetâ€

“we saw the baby moose and a mama and baby moose at Bible camp yesterday†“yeah and they were on the tundraâ€

“On the roadâ€

Family Feedback:

Samuel looks for à£à£Ö±²¥Ðãs “out on the road or the river†with his “dad, and sometimes Mom and brother,†“mostly [in the] summertime.â€

Favorite “Winter†Nature Activity

Spring 2020

In Progress

 

"Happy" Drawing
Child's drawing: black scribbles (running everywhere)
Fall 2019

Spring 2020: In Progress

"Negative Affect" Drawing
Child's drawing: Colors of tundra, rain
Fall 2019

Spring 2020: In Progress

Class Nature Tour Video Highlights
Fall 2019
 

Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest: In Progress


Family Nature Tour Video Highlights
Fall 2019


This project is funded by the National Science Foundation.à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã # 1753399, CAREER: A longitudinal study of the emotional and behavioral processes of Environmental Identity Development among rural and non-rural Alaskan children