John
John, PreK
Year 1, Cohort 1, Non-Rural Alaska
Child-Nature Points of Interest 2018-2019
Demographic Information
*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
Family Favorite Outdoor Activities
*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.”
Child's Drawings
Favorite “Summer” Nature Activity
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.”
Favorite “winter” Nature Activity
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
2nd Favorite "summer" nature activity
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.”
“Happy” Drawing
Fall 2018
“Happy” Drawing
Spring 2019
“Negative affect” Drawing
Fall 2018
“negative affect” Drawing
Spring 2019
Class Nature Tour Video Highlights
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!”
Family Nature Tour Highlights
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”
Class Nature Tour Video Highlights
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
Child Reflections on education activities:
*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.”