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Jessica, PreK
Jessica, PreK
Year 1, Cohort 1, Non-Rural Alaska
Year 1, Cohort 1, Non-Rural Alaska
Child-Nature Points of Interest 2018-2019
Child-Nature Points of Interest 2018-2019
Demographic Information
Demographic Information
*Source: Family Survey, Fall 2018 (completed by Jessica’s father)
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
DOB: November, 2013
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Fairbanks, AK
Family Members: Father, Stepmother, Mother, Stepfather, Sister (age 12), Sister (age 10), Sister (age 10), Brother (age 1)
Years Parent Lived in Alaska: 6
Parent’s feeling about place lived: 10
(1-10 rating; 10=extremely happy, 1=extremely unhappy)
House Location(s) in Fairbanks:
Outside Fairbanks City Limits
Family Favorite Outdoor Activities
Family Favorite Outdoor Activities
*Source: Family Survey, Fall 2018 (completed by Jessica’s father)
Family Outdoor Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)
Tend animals or livestock
Child’s Outdoor Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)
Bike, scooter, or skate
Make-believe/free play (outdoors summer)
Play ball
Build forts
Pick flowers
Hide and seek
Play with dog
Swim or water play
Collect/Find things
Build snowman, snow forts, snowballs
Free play outside (winter)
Sled
Favorite Family Activity (Written response):
“4-wheeling”
Child’s Favorite Summer Activity (Written response):
“Fishing”
Child’s Favorite Winter Activity (Written response):
“Building snowmen/sledding”
Description of outdoor experience when child was afraid/scared (Written response):
“Tubing when it started to go under.”
Description of outdoor experience when child was excited/happy (Written response):
“Fishing in Wisconsin.”
Child's Drawings
Child's Drawings
Favorite “Summer” Nature Activity
Favorite “Summer” Nature Activity
Fall 2018
Title: Having a campfire
Child quotes:
“Probably in like fireplaces and stuff and maybe just outside too. I have a fire pit at my dad’s house, but now we’re moving, so we have to leave our fire pit there.”
“There’s trees and stuff”
Family Feedback: Jessica’s father writes they have campfires “when camping or sometimes in our backyard” and at “typically Birch or Harding Lake or Angel Rocks.” He writes Jessica has campfires “5-10 times during the summer” and that she does this with “family/parents, siblings.”
Favorite “Summer” Nature Activity
Favorite “Summer” Nature Activity
Spring 2019
Title: Me going sledding
Child quotes:
“Me going sledding:
“It’s by (or at) my mom’s house.”
“It’s fun how you get to sled down really fast.”
Family Feedback: N/A
“Happy” Drawing
“Happy” Drawing
Fall 2018
“Happy” Drawing
“Happy” Drawing
Spring 2019
“Negative Affect” Drawing
“Negative Affect” Drawing
Fall 2018
“Negative Affect” Drawing
“Negative Affect” Drawing
Spring 2019
Class Nature Tour Video Highlights
Class Nature Tour Video Highlights
Fall 2018
Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:
Connected water to fishing; Observed cranes "it's a crane party"; Sought to protect cranes - telling others, “Don’t disturb them”; Observant of nature (moose, mushrooms, fish, frogs)
Class Nature Tour Video Highlights
Class Nature Tour Video Highlights
Spring 2019
Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:
Uncertainty about environment- entering/quickly exiting thicket, climbing trees; Uses stick as tool, breaking ice and walking stick for grandmother; expresses disdain towards muddy pinecone
Child Reflections on Education Activities
Child Reflections on Education Activities
*Source: Transcribed Notes from Class Discussions
Fall 2018
Child Quotes:
“The cranes eat cereal.”
“They [sandhill cranes] know each other from long time ago because they be together.”
Spring 2019
Child Quotes:
“I found a lot of tracks. There was one track that had fur by it that faded into colors. I had fun in the thicket.”
“I had fun finding two sticks. I had fun covering the number 1 and 7 (signs) and there was a bug that was a baby spider then we killed it.”
“My friend Amanda and me got through the snow and it was fun and also Brittany.”
“That it is a big responsibility to be there. And keep your eyes peeled for birds.”
“So being in the tree is a big responsibility and you have to be safe. There might be birds with nests.”
“Can go explore places in the puddles and have fun and splash. Can’t go, where I can’t go is on the lake because it might not be thick and I would fall in and I would be scared.”
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