Cohort 1: Jessica

• Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
• DOB: November, 2013
• Gender: Female
• Birthplace: Fairbanks, AK
• Family Members: Father, Stepmother, Mother, Stepfather, Sister (age 12), Sister (age 10), Sister (age 10), Brother (age 1)
• Years Parent Lived in Alaska: 6
• Parent’s feeling about place lived: 10 (1-10 rating; 10=extremely happy, 1=extremely unhappy)
• House Location(s) in Fairbanks: Outside Fairbanks City Limits

Source: Family Survey, Fall 2018 (completed by Jessica’s father)

• Family Outdoor Activities:
  Ranked frequently and almost always)
  • Tend to animals or livestock
• Child’s Outdoor Activities:
  (Ranked frequently and almost always)
  • Bike, scooter, or skate
  • Make-believe/free play (outdoors summer)
  • Play ball
  • Build forts 
  • Pick flowers
  • Hide and seek
  • Play with dog
  • Swim or water play
  • Collect/Find things
  • Build snowman, snow forts, snowballs
  • Free play outside (winter)
  • Sled
• Favorite Family Activity (Written response): "4-wheeling"
• Child’s Favorite Summer Activity (Written response): “Fishing"
• Child’s Favorite Winter Activity (Written response): “Building snowmen/sledding"
• Description of outdoor experience when child was afraid/scared (Written response): “Tubing when it starts to go under."
• Description of outdoor experience when child was excited/happy (Written response): “Fishing in Wisconsin."

Source: Family Survey, Fall 2018 (completed by Jessica’s father)

Fall 2018

Summer Activity

Title: Having a campfire

Child quotes:

“Probably in like fireplaces and stuff and maybe just outside too. I have a fire pit at my dad’s house, but now we’re moving, so we have to leave our fire pit there.”

“There’s trees and stuff”

Family Feedback: Jessica’s father writes they have campfires “when camping or sometimes in our backyard” and at “typically Birch or Harding Lake or Angel Rocks.” He writes Jessica has campfires “5-10 times during the summer” and that she does this with “family/parents, siblings.”

Spring 2019

Winter Activity 

Title: Having a campfire

Child quotes:

“Probably in like fireplaces and stuff and maybe just outside too. I have a fire pit at my dad’s house, but now we’re moving, so we have to leave our fire pit there.”

“There’s trees and stuff”

Family Feedback: Jessica’s father writes they have campfires “when camping or sometimes in our backyard” and at “typically Birch or Harding Lake or Angel Rocks.” He writes Jessica has campfires “5-10 times during the summer” and that she does this with “family/parents, siblings.”

Child Quotes:

“The cranes eat cereal.”

“They [sandhill cranes] know each other from long time ago because they be together.”

Child Quotes:

“I found a lot of tracks. There was one track that had fur by it that faded into colors. I had fun in the thicket.”

“I had fun finding two sticks. I had fun covering the number 1 and 7 (signs) and there was a bug that was a baby spider then we killed it.”

“My friend Amanda and me got through the snow and it was fun and also Brittany.”

“That it is a big responsibility to be there. And keep your eyes peeled for birds.”

“So being in the tree is a big responsibility and you have to be safe. There might be birds with nests.”

“Can go explore places in the puddles and have fun and splash. Can’t go, where I can’t go is on the lake because it might not be thick and I would fall in and I would be scared.”