KAEE’s 48th Annual Conference | Forging Paths for Environmental Education: Community, Conversations, and Creativity
Title Sponsor: Morehead State University | Drs. Ernst and Sara Lane Volgenau College of Education
Land Acknowledgement Morehead State University and the surrounding area are located on the traditional lands of the Yuchee, Shawnee, and Eastern Band of Cherokee. Indigenous peoples have lived on the land we now call Kentucky for over 12,000 years. We want to acknowledge the deep history of this land and the people who still live here today. To learn more about this land and the land you call home, visit native-land.ca.
This qualitative study conducted in the spring of 2024 by a graduate student in Environmental Education at EKU compared the demographics of the surrounding areas and quality of two children's play sites’ natural settings and affordances. The researcher gathered data from the two sites using LEAF School Grounds Site Inventories. The researcher also performed analysis of secondary analysis of additional data from various sources including: *KAEE Landscape Analysis *US Census data from 2020 *Lexington, Kentucky’s governmental website *Rowland-Shea, et al., 2020 The Census County Division or Council District of each park was used to gather data for comparison between the two locations, as well as to compare them to state and national averages. This study is intended to identify the various resources residents can use to determine the accessibility and quality of parks and natural areas in Lexington, Kentucky. This can help residents maximize their nature exposure and reap the subsequent benefits.
