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Cohort 2: Lucas

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

Child's Drawing: boat, water, rock, whale

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

Child's Drawing: water, getting fish, rock, sand
Fall 2019

Spring 2020:& In Progress

Child's drawing: Me, "stairs, "way up", drawers mama drawer
Fall 2019

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