Joseph, PreK
Year 1, Cohort 1, Non-Rural Alaska
Child-Nature Points of Interest (2018-2019)
Demographic Information
- Ethnicity: Hispanic, Asian
- DOB: May, 2014
- Gender: Male
- Birthplace: Fairbanks, AK
- Family Members: Mother, Father, Sister (age 2), Brother (age 1 week)
- Years Parent Lived in Alaska: 4
- Parent’s feeling about place lived: 9 (1-10 rating; 10=extremely happy, 1=extremely unhappy)
- House Location(s) in Fairbanks: Outside Fairbanks City Limits
Source: Family Survey, Fall 2018 (completed by Joseph’s mother)
- Family Outdoor Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)- Go to playground or park (in city/town/village)
- Go to sportsfield (soccer, baseball, etc.)
- Go on walks (in city/town/village)
- Swim in natural setting
- Ski (cross-country or downhill)
- Child’s Outdoor Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)- Hide and seek
- Jump on trampoline
- Swim or water play
- Other (soccer)
- Favorite Family Activity (Written response): "Running, hiking"
- Child’s Favorite Summer Activity (Written response): “Soccer and swimming"
- Child’s Favorite Winter Activity (Written response): “Downhill ski and skate"
- Description of outdoor experience when child was afraid/scared (Written response): “When there's strong noise, thunder storm."
- Description of outdoor experience when child was excited/happy (Written response): “When there's bunny came to our house."
Source: Family Survey, Fall 2018 (completed by Joseph’s mother)
Child's Drawings
Fall 2018
Title: Playing basketball outside of his house
Child quotes:
“We play basketball in our garden.”
“With just with my sister.”
“I do it [play basketball] all the time.”
“I want to play outside with soccer I… I kick the ball and I be the goalie, I got the ball.”
Family Feedback: Joseph’s mother writes that he plays basketball outside his house on “weekends and holidays,” “once a week in the summer,” with his “sister, and Dad with friends.” She indicates that he plays basketball in their backyard. She also writes, “He’s very active and likes to outdoors. In addition, he’s doing soccer and swimming twice a week, and playing piano as well.”
Spring 2019
Title: Skiing
Child quotes:
“I like to play.”
“Skiing”
“At my house with my family.”
“At Birch Hill”
“I like going skiing and super-fast.”
“One time there was a bumpy skiing area and I went bump bump.”
“I was scared… but now I can ski by myself I’m not scared anymore.”
Family Feedback: N/A
Fall 2018
Class Nature Tour Video Highlights
Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:
Noticed different colored leaves; Upset about falling and getting dirty in grass; Anxiety about navigating wooden bridge; Expressed discomfort in log area “this is bad”
Fall 2018
Family Nature Tour Highlights
Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:
Used map to navigate location at park; Demonstrated empathy when feeding ducks; Chased away pigeons; Engrossed by electronical outdoor game; Played on playground with father and younger sister
Spring 2019
Class Nature Tour Highlights
Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:
Play with others in the forest- sitting on the tree, playing batman, throwing snowballs; attributes stick pile to beaver, counts stick’s height, uses stick as tool
Child's Reflections on Education Activities
Child Quotes:
“I like to play on the trail.”
“The grass has cereal.”
Child Quotes:
“It was a wolf den. I felt happy.”
“Fighting. Getting a new stick. Felt good. And it was so much fun.”
“Safe on the bridge can walk on wood. Not safe in the water. Next time I go to Creamer’s field I will bring my fishing pole so I can tell it is deep or shallow on the lake.”
“Everything. Don’t fight with sticks. Don’t go in the deep water.”
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