Sally, PreK
Year 2, Cohort 2, Rural Alaska
Child-Nature Points of Interest 2019-2020
Demographic Information
Ethnicity: Alaska Native (Inupiat)
DOB: October, 2014
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Nome, Alaska
Family Members: Mother, Father, Grandmother, Sister (grade 8), Sister (infant)
Years Parent Lived in Alaska: 31
Parent’s feeling about place lived: 5
(1-10 rating; 10=extremely happy, 1=extremely unhappy)
Source: Family Survey, Fall 2019 (completed by Sally's Mother)
Family Outdoor Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)
- Camping (tent or RV)
- Cabin away from home
Family Subsistence Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)
- Go hunting
- Cut trees for firewood
- Go fish camp (Spending one or more nights away from home) to harvest and smoke fish
- Go hunting camp ( spending one or more nights away from home) to hunt/process deer or moose
- Go hunting camp (spending one or more nights away from home) to hunt/process seals
- Pick berries
- Fish from the shore
- Fish from a boat
Child’s Outdoor Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)
- Bike, scooter, or skate
- Make-believe/ free play (outdoors summer)
- Pick flowers
- Go fishing
- Go camping
- Collect/Find things
- Build forts
- Pick berries
- Build snowman, snow forts, snowballs
- Free play outside (winter)
- Sled
Favorite Family Recreational Activity(Written response): "Camping, hunting, fishing"
Favorite Family Subsistence Activity(Written response): "Camp"
Child’s Favorite Summer Activity (Written response): "Camping and Fishing
Child’s Favorite Winter Activity(Written response): "ice fishing, sledding"
Description of outdoor experience when child was afraid/scared (Written response): N/A
Description of outdoor experience when child was excited/happy (Written response): "Sally gets excited when she sees an animal"
Source: Family Survey, Fall 2019 (completed by Sally's Mother)
Child's Drawings
Favorite “Summer”
Fall 2019
Title: Beach with Friends
Child quotes:
“Going to beach”
“with my friends”
“It’s by my house”
What do you see when you go to the ocean? “seals”
“We always go to the playground”
Just go to beach when it’s warm out, not cold”
“I go swimming on the beach.” “I have a lot of swimsuits.”
Family Feedback:
Sally goes to the beach “everyday.” She goes with “friends and family” She goes “during the summer.” “She likes da beach.”
Spring 2020
In Progress
Spring 2020: In Progress
Fall 2019 and Spring 2020: In Progress
Class Nature Tour Video Highlights
Fall 2019
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