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Cohort 2: Jackson

Jackson, PreK

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

Demographic Information

Ethnicity: White/Caucasian

DOB: May, 2015

Gender: Male

Birthplace: Anchorage, AK

Family Members: Mother, Father, Brother (infant)

Years Parent Lived in Alaska: 31

Parent’s feeling about place lived: 8

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

Source: Family Survey, Fall 2019 (completed by Jackson's Mother)

Family Outdoor Activities:

(Ranked frequently and almost always)

  • Go to playground or park (in city/town/village)
  • Go on walks (in city/town/village)
  • Family bike rides (in city/town/village)
  • Motorbike or 4 wheel (for recreation)
  • Picnic or outdoor barbecue

Family Subsistence Activities

(Ranked frequently and almost always)

N/A

Child’s Outdoor Activities:

(Ranked frequently and almost always)

  • Bike, scooter, or skate
  • Make-believe/free play (outdoors summer)
  • Hide and seek
  • Collect/ fine things
  • Build snowman, snow fort, snowballs
  • Free play outside (winter)
  • Play ball
  • Build forts
  • Look for bugs
  • Jump on trampoline
  • Sled

Favorite Family Recreational Activity(Written response): "Playgrounds & walks/bike rides"

Favorite Family Subsistence Activity (Written response): N/A

Child’s Favorite Summer Activity (Written response): "Biking"

Child’s Favorite Winter Activity(Written response): "Shoveling/ building"

Description of outdoor experience when child was afraid/scared (Written response): "Doesn't happen much... last vacation to Hawaii on a day w/ particularly big waves"

Description of outdoor experience when child was excited/happy (Written response): " Riding his bike down a bigger hill than he's used to"

Source: Family Survey, Fall 2019 (completed by Jackson's Mother)

Child's Drawings

Child's drawing: bike

Favorite “Summer”

Fall 2019

Title: Riding Bike at the Airport

Child quotes: N/A

Family Feedback:

Jackson likes to ride his bike “when it's sunny out and when it's cold. To and from school.” He usually goes with his “mom and dad and grandma when she visits” He rides his bike “at home on the beach, at the airport and to school.” He rides his bike “hundreds of times” “Pretty much everyday I like to ride my bike.”

Favorite “Winter” Nature Activity

Spring 2020

In Progress

Child's drawing: scribbles (creek, rainbow, me, brown dirt)
Fall 2019

Spring 2020: In Progress

Child's drawing: brown scribbles (tundra, grass)

Spring 2020: In Progress

Class Nature Tour Video Highlights
Fall 2019
 In Progress


Family Nature Tour Video Highlights
Fall 2019

Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest: In Progress


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