*Source: Family Survey, Fall 2018 (completed by John’s mother)
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian, Alaska Native (Tlingit-Haida, Unangan (Aleut))
DOB: March, 2014
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Fairbanks, AK
Family Members: Mother, Father, Brother (age 10)
Years Parent Lived in Alaska: 15
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
*Source: Family Survey, Fall 2018 (completed by John’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.)
Family bike rides (in city/town/village)
Hike in natural setting
Garden or greenhouse (garden)
Child’s Outdoor Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)
Bike, scooter, or skate
Make-believe/free play (outdoors summer)
Pick flowers
Look for bugs
Hide and seek
Swim or water play
Collect/Find things (sticks)
Build snowman, snow forts, snowballs
Free play outside (winter)
Sled
Favorite Family Activity (Written response):
“Playing at the park.”
Child’s Favorite Summer Activity (Written response):
“Bike riding”
Child’s Favorite Winter Activity (Written response):
“Playing in the snow”
Description of outdoor experience when child was afraid/scared (Written response):
“A baby moose walked by our campsite.”
Description of outdoor experience when child was excited/happy (Written response):
“Hiking at Denali National Park.”
Fall 2018
Title: On the merry-go-round at the park
Child quotes:
“Going on the new playground!”
“That’s the swing.”
“A merry-go-round.”
“I’m making a green one too… Another merry-go-round!”
“We bike here to play on the merry-go-round.”
“Because it’s so fun!”
Family Feedback:
John’s mother writes that he goes to the park with the merry-go-round “on the weekend” with his brother, “1-2x a week during the summer.”
Spring 2019
Title: Rocks and snowballs
Child quotes:
“Make snowballs with snow that is wet”
“I want to draw a rock around it… it’s a big giant rock with a rock and that’s a snowball. And it was… black or whatever.”
“It’s a sun with rocks in it.”
“Make a fort.”
“Shoot snowballs with my shovel.”
“Not snowball fights just making forts and throwing snowballs at stuff.”
Family Feedback: N/A
Fall 2018
Title: Finding mushrooms
Child quotes:
“Finding mushrooms”
“And there’s good ones.”
“My mom, and my dad, and my brother.”
“On a hike, and we found a tree mushroom.”
“They [birds] were in the sky, flying. And there were some that eat fishies… big ones do, like ravens.”
“A long time ago my dad catched fish when I was two.”
“Trees…and they are so big!”
“Some black bears… they eat fish.”
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Fall 2018
Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:
Curious and observant of flora and fauna – Noted “poisonous” tree mushrooms, Tasted puffball mushrooms; Observed rosehip seeds; Discerned that the grass fields were “planted”; Took notice of cranes, stating, “look at the cranes!”
Fall 2018
Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:
Built environmental features limited nature interactions – Biking on paved road, Merry-go-round, and manicured lawn; Threw pebbles from playground into river; Blew a dandelion; Mother encouraged John and brother to stomp mushrooms because “it is fun”
Spring 2019
Emotional and Behavioral Points of Interest:
Stick “not a sword;” finds fur in the snow; notices bird habitat; fell from tree when branch broke
*Source: Transcribed Notes from Class Discussions
Fall 2018
Child Quotes:
“Go in the forest and play.”
“Play”
“They [sandhill cranes] stand on one foot sleeping.”
Spring 2019
Child Quotes:
“There was trees not broken but they were like a C stuck to the ground.”
"There was a big stick and James screwed it into the ground. He wanted to reach the sky.”
“We was climbing on the trees.”