Ashley, PreK
Year 1, Cohort 1, Non-Rural Alaska
**Moved before Spring 2019
Child-Nature Points of Interest (2018-2019)
Demographic Information
- Ethnicity: Hispanic/Latino
- DOB: December, 2013
- Gender: Female
- Birthplace: El Paso, TX
- Family Members: Mother, Father, Brother (age 14), Sister (age 10), Sister (age 6)
- Years Parent Lived in Alaska: 2
- Parent’s feeling about place lived: 8 (1-10 rating; 10=extremely happy, 1=extremely unhappy)
- House Location(s) in Fairbanks: Inside Fairbanks City Limits
Child's Drawings
Fall 2018
Title: Camping with Animals
Child quotes:
“Lots of birds everywhere.”
“Birds land on my mom’s truck…and they attack us!”
“I go swimming in them [rivers] with water snakes... and electrocute snakes.”
“Chena Lake Springs”
“She [Mom] said we can’t go swimming.”
“I never seen a farm.”
“My mom and grandpa’s gonna give me a horse.”
Family Feedback: Ashley’s father writes, “Last summer we went camping” with “me, my wife and her two sisters” at “Chena Hot Springs.” He writes that they camp “maybe once a year.” He also comments that besides camping, Eliana “rode a pony downtown at a fair. She goes to Tanana Lake to swim with mom and sisters.”
Class Nature Tour Video Highlights
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Fall 2018
Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:
Anxiety of “snakes in grass” (environmental misconception); Chased migratory cranes “I wanna kill them”; Anxiety that something had happened to animals depicted on sign
Child Reflections on educational activities
*Source: Transcribed Notes from Class Discussions
Child Quote:
“I learn about some branch.”
This project is funded by the National Science Foundation. Award # 1753399, CAREER: A longitudinal study of the emotional and behavioral processes of Environmental Identity Development among rural and non-rural Alaskan children