Lucas, PreK
Year 2, Cohort 2, Rural Alaska
Child-Nature Points of Interest 2019-2020
Demographic Information
Ethnicity: Alaska Native (Inupiat)
DOB: August, 2015
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Nome, AK
Family Members: Mother, Grandmother, Brother, Sister
Years Parent Lived in Alaska: 80
Parent鈥檚 feeling about place lived: 10
(1-10 rating; 10=extremely happy, 1=extremely unhappy)
Source: Family Survey, Fall 2019 (completed by Lucas's Mother)
Family Outdoor Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)
- Motorbike or 4-wheel
Family Subsistence Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)
- Go hunting
- Pick berries
Fish from the shore
- Pick seaweed
- Harvest tea or medicinal plants
Child鈥檚 Outdoor Activities:
(Ranked frequently and almost always)
- Make-believe/free play (outdoors summer)
- Pick berries
- Go fishing
- Hide and seek
- Swim or water play
- Collect/ find things : glass rocks
- Build snowman, snow forts, snowballs
- Free play outside (Winter)
- Sled
- Bike, scooter, or skate
- Play ball
- Build forts
- Pick flowers
- Play with dog
- Jump on trampoline
Favorite Family Recreational Activity(Written response): "Family rides"
Favorite Family Subsistence Activity(Written response): "Moose hunting Lucas doesn't be left home unless he wants to "
Child鈥檚 Favorite Summer Activity (Written response): "Swimming"
Child鈥檚 Favorite Winter Activity(Written response): "Riding snowmobile"
Description of outdoor experience when child was afraid/scared (Written response): "Unknown dogs"
Description of outdoor experience when child was excited/happy (Written response): "paying out going for rides"
Source: Family Survey, Fall 2019 (completed by Lucas's Mother)
Child's Drawings
Favorite 鈥淪ummer鈥
Fall 2019
Title: Fishing at the Beach
Child quotes:
鈥淚 got a fishing rod鈥
Did you catch a fish? Shakes head no. 鈥淚 got to go get it. I got to ask my mom I can aboard(?), I can go get fish鈥
鈥渁t the beach鈥
鈥淲ith my brother and my sister鈥
What do you see at the beach? 鈥淩ocks and fish鈥
鈥淲e saw a seashell and fish鈥
What color are the seashells? 鈥渨hite鈥
鈥淭here鈥檚 whale鈥
鈥淚 didn鈥檛 catch a fish yet鈥
Do you go to the beach with your mom and dad? 鈥淵eah. We went swimming鈥
Family Feedback:
Lucas draws 鈥渨hen he feels like drawing.鈥 鈥淚f someone is watching him draw these you are VERY LUCKY, he tells us to go away.鈥 He draws 鈥渆veryday鈥 鈥渉ere at home on a piece of paper.鈥 鈥淗e doesn鈥檛 like anyone to watch him draw and he is a very bright kid.鈥
Spring 2020
In Progress
Spring 2020:& In Progress
Spring 2020: In Progress
Class Nature Tour Video Highlights
Fall 2019
This project is funded by the National Science Foundation.啵啵直播秀 # 1753399, CAREER: A longitudinal study of the emotional and behavioral processes of Environmental Identity Development among rural and non-rural Alaskan children