Cohort 1: Christopher

• Ethnicity: White/Caucasian, Indian
• DOB: February, 2014
• Gender: Male
• Birthplace: Wasilla, AK
• Family Members: Mother, Sister (age 6)
• Years Parent Lived in Alaska: 37
• Parent’s feeling about place lived: 10 (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 Christopher’s mother)

• Family Outdoor Activities:
  (Ranked frequently and almost always)
  • Go to playground or park (in city/town/village)
  • Go on walks (in city/town/village)
• 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
  • Play with dog
  • Jump on trampoline
  • Collect/Find things (rocks/leaves)
• Favorite Family Activity (Written response): "Anything 'summer-y' (water guns, pools, etc."
• Child’s Favorite Summer Activity (Written response): “Riding bike"
• Child’s Favorite Winter Activity (Written response): “Still getting interested in winter"
• Description of outdoor experience when child was afraid/scared (Written response): “None"
• Description of outdoor experience when child was excited/happy (Written response): “He likes robots/transformers and I had a ladybug on my finger. I told him the bug was going to lift his 'shields' and fly away, and when it did, Christopher was mesmerized."

Source: Family Survey, Fall 2018 (completed by Christopher’s mother)

Title: Playing hide and seek

Child quotes:

“I play games like hide and seek.”

“My sister”

“She hides in a mystery spot”

“We play it at our house.”

“I feel like I’m with my mom when I play hide and seek.”

“Under the slide”

“I don’t draw mosquitoes in my picture…they sting, just giving me tons of mosquito bites…and I just try to squish them…and they sneaky to fly so fast.”

Family Feedback:

Christopher’s mother writes that he plays hide and seek “when playing outside (or even inside the house) when friends come over.” She writes that he plays with “his sister or neighbor friends…in the neighborhood, playground, in/around the house.” She writes, “Since he learned it [hide and seek] this summer, he plays whenever he has a chance and friend! He loves finding small hiding places and the anticipation of being found.”

Spring 2019

Title: Make a snowball guy

Child quotes:

“Make a snow ball guy.”

“All the time”

“At recess”

“With no one”

Spring 2019: No drawing

Child Quotes:

“It was just like big monster, and I killed it.”

“That was, that was in the woods and it was chasing me.”

“He was like, he was so slow. I just punched him.”

Spring 2019: No Drawing

Child's Quote:

“His name is Mark.”

Child's Quotes:

“I saw a den with a wolf; it was like starring at me.”

“Cool.” (Comment on stick play)

“It [the snow] was like too cold.”

“Can go on the bridge. Can’t go in the forest.”

“I learned there was weasels that lived in the ground.”